Eureka! After reading this – Search based on the contents of a repository, the answer was clear! Search by README.md file content!
Use GitHub’s search engine and provide a unique combination of words that appear in your README.md file. This is how I do it for my template – unfor19/terraform-multienv
in:readme sort:updated -user:unfor19 "tfmultienv"
github.com/search?q=in%3Areadme+sort%3Aupdated+-user%3Aunfor19+%22%60tfmultienv%60%22&type=repositories
To get meaningful search results
- Sorting with
sort:updated - Filtering out my user name
-user:USERNAMEwith -QUALIFIER.
Instead of hardcoding USERNAME you can use the keyword @me.