src is a command line interface to Sourcegraph:

• Search & get results in your terminal
• Search & get JSON for programmatic consumption
• Make GraphQL API requests with auth easily & get JSON back fast
• Execute batch changes
• Manage & administrate repositories, users, and more
• Easily convert src-CLI commands to equivalent curl commands, just add --get-curl!

Note: Using Sourcegraph 3.12 or earlier? See the older README.

Binary downloads are available on the releases tab, and through Sourcegraph.com. If the latest version does not work for you, consider using the version compatible with your Sourcegraph instance instead.

curl -L https://sourcegraph.com/.api/src-cli/src_darwin_amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/src
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/src

or with Homebrew:

brew install sourcegraph/src-cli/src-cli

or with npm:

npm install -g @sourcegraph/src

Replace sourcegraph.example.com with your Sourcegraph instance URL:

curl -L https://sourcegraph.example.com/.api/src-cli/src_darwin_amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/src
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/src

or, if you know the specific version to target, for example 3.43.2:

brew install sourcegraph/src-cli/[email protected]

or with npm/npx:

npx @sourcegraph/[email protected] version

Note: Versioned formulas are available on Homebrew for Sourcegraph versions 3.43.2 and later.

curl -L https://sourcegraph.com/.api/src-cli/src_linux_amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/src
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/src

or with npm:

npm install -g @sourcegraph/src

Replace sourcegraph.example.com with your Sourcegraph instance URL:

curl -L https://sourcegraph.example.com/.api/src-cli/src_linux_amd64 -o /usr/local/bin/src
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/src

or, with npm/npx, if you know the specific version to target, for example 3.43.2:

npx @sourcegraph/[email protected] version

See Sourcegraph CLI for Windows.

sourcegraph/src-cli is published to Docker Hub. You can use the latest tag or a specific version such as 3.43. To see all versions view sourcegraph/src-cli tags.

docker run --rm=true sourcegraph/src-cli:latest search 'hello world'

Run src login SOURCEGRAPH-URL to authenticate src to access your Sourcegraph instance with your user credentials.

Examples src login https://sourcegraph.example.com src login https://sourcegraph.com

src consults the following environment variables:

• SRC_ENDPOINT: the URL to your Sourcegraph instance (such as https://sourcegraph.example.com)
• SRC_ACCESS_TOKEN: your Sourcegraph access token (on your Sourcegraph instance, click your user menu in the top right, then select Settings > Access tokens to create one)

For convenience, you can add these environment variables persistently.

Add the following to your terminal profile file, typically accessible at ~/.bash_profile (if using Bash) or ~/.zprofile (if using Zsh):

export SRC_ACCESS_TOKEN=my-token
export SRC_ENDPOINT=https://sourcegraph.example.com 

Replace my-token and https://sourcegraph.example.com with the appropriate values for your account and instance.

You can also inline them in a single command with:

SRC_ENDPOINT=https://sourcegraph.example.com SRC_ACCESS_TOKEN=my-token src search 'foo'

Type the following on your PowerShell terminal:

$env.SRC_ENDPOINT = 'https://sourcegraph.example.com'
$env.SRC_ACCESS_TOKEN = 'my-token'

Replace my-token and https://sourcegraph.example.com with the appropriate values for your account and instance.

You can also manually add them via the System Properties windows. Check this post for details.

Is your Sourcegraph instance behind a custom auth proxy? See auth proxy configuration docs.

src provides different subcommands to interact with different parts of Sourcegraph:

• src login - authenticate to a Sourcegraph instance with your user credentials
• src search - perform searches and get results in your terminal or as JSON
• src api - run Sourcegraph GraphQL API requests
• src batch - execute and manage batch changes
• src repos - manage repositories
• src users - manage users
• src orgs - manages organization
• src config - manage global, org, and user settings
• src extsvc - manage external services (repository configuration)
• src extensions - manage extensions
• src code-intel - manages Code Intelligence data (deprecated alias: src lsif)
• src serve-git - serves your local git repositories over HTTP for Sourcegraph to pull
• src version - check version and guaranteed-compatible version for your Sourcegraph instance

Run src -h and src <subcommand> -h for more detailed usage information. You can also read the usage docs for the latest version of src-cli online.

If you have a naming conflict with the src command, such as a Bash alias, you can rename the static binary. For example, on Linux / Mac OS:

mv /usr/local/bin/src /usr/local/bin/src-cli

You can then invoke it via src-cli.

src includes the operating system and architecture in the User-Agent header sent to Sourcegraph. For example, running src version 3.21.10 on an x86-64 Linux host will result in this header:

src-cli/3.21.10 linux amd64

To disable this and only send the version, you can set -user-agent-telemetry=false for a single command, or set the SRC_DISABLE_USER_AGENT_TELEMETRY environment variable to any non-blank string.

As with other Sourcegraph telemetry, any collected data is only sent to Sourcegraph.com in aggregate form.

Some useful notes on developing src can be found in DEVELOPMENT.md.