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title Search packages
titleSuffix Azure Artifacts
description How to search for packages across all your feeds and in upstream sources in an Azure DevOps organization.
ms.subservice azure-devops-search
ms.custom cross-service, cross-project
ms.topic how-to
ms.author chcomley
author chcomley
monikerRange azure-devops
ms.date 08/08/2024

Search packages across your feeds

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Finding the right package for your project can be challenging, especially when there are many versions and dependencies involved. In this article, learn how to use Code Search to perform functional package search in Azure DevOps, which allows you to search for packages based on their functionality, metadata, and code snippets.

Prerequisites

Category Requirements
Azure DevOps organization and project An organization and a project.
Azure Artifacts feed An Azure Artifacts feed.

Search packages

  1. Sign in to your project (https://dev.azure.com/{Your_Organization}/{Your_Project}).

  2. Enter package in the search box.

  3. Select from the dropdown menus to search by feeds, views, or package types.

    :::image type="content" source="media/shared/package-search-results-filters.png" alt-text="Screenshot showing the filter panel options.":::

You can search within all feeds of the organization by default, regardless of the project you’re in.

The Views filter shows up only when you select a single feed from the Feeds filter. This filter lets you display packages from a particular view.

You can use the Type filter to choose the package type you want to search for (for example, NuGet packages).

Search with the REST API

You can use the Azure DevOps REST API to search for packages in a specific organization. For more information, see Fetch package search results.

Example

POST https://almsearch.dev.azure.com/ORGANIZATION_NAME/_apis/search/packagesearchresults?api-version=7.0
{
  "$orderBy": null,
  "$top": 100,
  "$skip": 0,
  "searchText": "react-calendar",
  "filters": {
    "ProtocolType": "Npm"
  }
}

Search upstream sources

Using upstream sources, you can consume packages from public registries and other Azure Artifacts feeds. For more information, see Search upstream.

Note

You can only search for packages in upstream sources from your feed in Azure DevOps Services. NuGet Package Explorer doesn't support searching for upstream packages. For more information, see Download NuGet packages.

Next steps

[!div class="nextstepaction"] Promote a package to a view

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