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The search function of Bintray is a keyword search of repos, packages, users and organizations. The keyword search is contextual and does more that just search the file names!
The search function is located in the ribbon at the top of each Bintray page and is available to all Bintray users (logged in or anonymous).
To use the basic search functionality:
In the Bintray top ribbon, enter a string in the Search Bintray field, and click the Search button.
The Search Results page includes all packages, files, repositories and users that meet the search criterion, in four different lists: Packages, Files, Repositories and Users. The "Packages" tab, which displayed first, initially displays results in Maven context. That means Bintray initially assumes you are searching for a Maven package and displys results in terms of GAVC coordinates.
By clicking the link displayed, you can view packages that came up in the search as context-agnostic results.
Bintray allows you to view how many times a certain package or version has been downloaded. The package owner can get more detailed stats for packages that are in premium repositorie. For more details, please refer to Stats.
One of the advantages of Bintray is its interactivity and a key part of that interactivity is the feedback about packages that users post. The feedback one user leaves about a package helps other users choose the relevant material for their needs.
There are package ratings, package reviews and notes.
Package rating is from one to five stars (no stars means no one rated the package, not a worthless package!) These stars are displayed under the package name.
The package rating appears not only in the Package page but also in the Version page of each version of the package.
Reviews (written feedback) of the package appear in the Package page’s Reviews tab. Reviews are always open to be read by all users, even those not logged-in.
Reviews may apply to a specific version, in which case they will be displayed in the Version page of that version (in the Reviews tab) as well but not in other versions of the same package (if no specific version is noted for the review, it will appear in the Version page of each version of the package).
Bintray offers software publishers the option of providing additional information about the packages and versions they own in order to help a user determine which packages and versions to download. The advantage provided by Bintray is that you can view all this information on screen within the Bintray UI, so you can better decide whether you want to download a specific package or version. You don’t have to first download the package and then rummage through its files searching for information.
The information that is provided by a user about a package or version can be one or more of the following:
Description: When creating or editing a repository, package or version, the user may include a brief description. This description is displayed at the top of the page, next to the repo, package or version gravatar.
Readme: The readme added by the owner of the package or version is displayed in the Readme tab of the Package page or Version page (one readme text per package, shared between the package itself and all its versions).
Release Notes: Release notes added by the owner of the package or version are displayed in the Release Notes tab of the Package page or Version page.
Note: Release Notes may be package-level or version-level. Having package-level release notes means that the same release notes apply to (and are displayed in the pages of) the package and all its versions. Having version-level release notes means that each version can have its own release notes (displayed in the Release Notes tab of the Version page) and the Release Notes tab of the Package page displays the release notes of all the versions that have published files, divided into sections.