diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/cmd/crawler/crawler.go b/api/internal/crawl/cmd/crawler/crawler.go
index 95e1a15b7..7e14f7072 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/cmd/crawler/crawler.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/cmd/crawler/crawler.go
@@ -21,9 +21,14 @@ const (
 	redisCacheURL        = "REDIS_CACHE_URL"
 	redisKeyURL          = "REDIS_KEY_URL"
 	retryCount           = 3
+	githubUserEnv        = "GITHUB_USER"
+	githubRepoEnv        = "GITHUB_REPO"
 )
 
 func main() {
+	githubUser := os.Getenv(githubUserEnv)
+	githubRepo := os.Getenv(githubRepoEnv)
+
 	githubToken := os.Getenv(githubAccessTokenVar)
 	if githubToken == "" {
 		fmt.Printf("Must set the variable '%s' to make github requests.\n",
@@ -38,21 +43,9 @@ func main() {
 		return
 	}
 
+	seedDocs := make(crawler.CrawlSeed, 0)
+
 	cacheURL := os.Getenv(redisCacheURL)
-
-	query := []byte(`{ "query":{ "match_all":{} } }`)
-	it := idx.IterateQuery(query, 10000, 60*time.Second)
-	docs := make(crawler.CrawlSeed, 0)
-	for it.Next() {
-		for _, hit := range it.Value().Hits.Hits {
-			docs = append(docs, hit.Document.Copy())
-		}
-	}
-
-	if err := it.Err(); err != nil {
-		fmt.Printf("Error iterating: %v\n", err)
-	}
-
 	cache, err := redis.DialURL(cacheURL)
 	clientCache := &http.Client{}
 	if err != nil {
@@ -61,12 +54,6 @@ func main() {
 		clientCache = httpclient.NewClient(cache)
 	}
 
-	ghCrawler := github.NewCrawler(githubToken, retryCount, clientCache,
-		github.QueryWith(
-			github.Filename("kustomization.yaml"),
-			github.Filename("kustomization.yml")),
-	)
-
 	// docConverter takes in a plain document and processes it for the index.
 	docConverter := func(d *doc.Document) (crawler.CrawledDocument, error) {
 		kdoc := doc.KustomizationDocument{
@@ -81,7 +68,7 @@ func main() {
 	index := func(cdoc crawler.CrawledDocument, crwlr crawler.Crawler) error {
 		switch d := cdoc.(type) {
 		case *doc.KustomizationDocument:
-			fmt.Println("Inserting: ", d.ID(), d)
+			fmt.Println("Inserting: ", d)
 			_, err := idx.Put(d.ID(), d)
 			return err
 		default:
@@ -93,9 +80,43 @@ func main() {
 	// This helps avoid indexing a given document multiple times.
 	seen := make(map[string]struct{})
 
+	var ghCrawler crawler.Crawler
+
+	if githubRepo != "" {
+		ghCrawler = github.NewCrawler(githubToken, retryCount, clientCache,
+			github.QueryWith(
+				github.Filename("kustomization.yaml"),
+				github.Filename("kustomization.yml"),
+				github.Repo(githubRepo)),
+		)
+	} else if githubUser != "" {
+		ghCrawler = github.NewCrawler(githubToken, retryCount, clientCache,
+			github.QueryWith(
+				github.Filename("kustomization.yaml"),
+				github.Filename("kustomization.yml"),
+				github.User(githubUser)),
+		)
+	} else {
+		ghCrawler = github.NewCrawler(githubToken, retryCount, clientCache,
+			github.QueryWith(
+				github.Filename("kustomization.yaml"),
+				github.Filename("kustomization.yml")),
+		)
+
+		// get all the documents in the index
+		query := []byte(`{ "query":{ "match_all":{} } }`)
+		it := idx.IterateQuery(query, 10000, 60*time.Second)
+		for it.Next() {
+			for _, hit := range it.Value().Hits.Hits {
+				seedDocs = append(seedDocs, hit.Document.Copy())
+			}
+		}
+		if err := it.Err(); err != nil {
+			fmt.Printf("Error iterating: %v\n", err)
+		}
+	}
+
 	crawlers := []crawler.Crawler{ghCrawler}
-
-	crawler.CrawlFromSeed(ctx, docs, crawlers, docConverter, index, seen)
-
+	crawler.CrawlFromSeed(ctx, seedDocs, crawlers, docConverter, index, seen)
 	crawler.CrawlGithub(ctx, crawlers, docConverter, index, seen)
 }
diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler.go b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler.go
index 312b0168d..f57f247e5 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/crawler.go
@@ -68,11 +68,9 @@ func findMatch(d *doc.Document, crawlers []Crawler) Crawler {
 
 func addBranches(cdoc CrawledDocument, match Crawler, indx IndexFunc,
 	seen map[string]struct{}, stack *CrawlSeed) {
-	if _, ok := seen[cdoc.ID()]; ok {
-		return
-	}
 
 	seen[cdoc.ID()] = struct{}{}
+
 	// Insert into index
 	err := indx(cdoc, match)
 	logIfErr(err)
@@ -98,12 +96,16 @@ func doCrawl(ctx context.Context, docsPtr *CrawlSeed, crawlers []Crawler, conv C
 	docCount := 0
 	// During the execution of the for loop, more Documents may be added into (*docsPtr).
 	for len(*docsPtr) > 0 {
-		docCount++
 		// get the last Document in (*docPtr), which will be crawled in this iteration.
 		tail := (*docsPtr)[len(*docsPtr)-1]
 
 		// remove the last Document in (*docPtr)
-		*docsPtr = (*docsPtr)[:(len(*docsPtr)-1)]
+		*docsPtr = (*docsPtr)[:(len(*docsPtr) - 1)]
+
+		if _, ok := seen[tail.ID()]; ok {
+			continue
+		}
+		docCount++
 
 		match := findMatch(tail, crawlers)
 		if match == nil {
@@ -138,7 +140,7 @@ func doCrawl(ctx context.Context, docsPtr *CrawlSeed, crawlers []Crawler, conv C
 // CrawlFromSeed updates all the documents in seed, and crawls all the new
 // documents referred in the seed.
 func CrawlFromSeed(ctx context.Context, seed CrawlSeed, crawlers []Crawler,
-	conv Converter, indx IndexFunc,	seen map[string]struct{}) {
+	conv Converter, indx IndexFunc, seen map[string]struct{}) {
 
 	// stack tracks the documents directly referred in other documents.
 	stack := make(CrawlSeed, 0)
@@ -218,7 +220,7 @@ func CrawlGithubRunner(ctx context.Context, output chan<- CrawledDocument,
 
 // CrawlGithub crawls all the kustomization files on Github.
 func CrawlGithub(ctx context.Context, crawlers []Crawler, conv Converter,
-	indx IndexFunc,	seen map[string]struct{}) {
+	indx IndexFunc, seen map[string]struct{}) {
 	// stack tracks the documents directly referred in other documents.
 	stack := make(CrawlSeed, 0)
 
@@ -244,14 +246,15 @@ func CrawlGithub(ctx context.Context, crawlers []Crawler, conv Converter,
 		}
 	}()
 
+	logger.Println("processing the documents found from crawling github")
 	if errs := CrawlGithubRunner(ctx, ch, crawlers); errs != nil {
 		for _, err := range errs {
 			logIfErr(err)
 		}
 	}
 	close(ch)
-	logger.Println("Processing the documents found from crawling github")
 	wg.Wait()
+
 	// Handle deps of newly discovered documents.
 	logger.Printf("crawling the %d new documents referred by other documents",
 		len(stack))
diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/crawler.go b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/crawler.go
index a42c33074..66fa9b20c 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/crawler.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/crawler.go
@@ -230,7 +230,6 @@ func kustomizationResultAdapter(gcl GhClient, k GhFileSpec) (
 			RepositoryURL: k.Repository.URL,
 		},
 	}
-	logger.Printf("Set the creationTime field")
 	creationTime, err := gcl.GetFileCreationTime(k)
 	if err != nil {
 		logger.Printf("GetFileCreationTime failed: %v", err)
@@ -533,7 +532,7 @@ func (gcl GhClient) parseGithubResponse(getRequest string) GhResponseInfo {
 }
 
 // SearchGithubAPI performs a search query and handles rate limitting for
-// the 'code/search?' endpoint as well as timed retries in the case of abuse
+// the 'search/code?' endpoint as well as timed retries in the case of abuse
 // prevention.
 func (gcl GhClient) SearchGithubAPI(query string) (*http.Response, error) {
 	throttleSearchAPI()
diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/queries.go b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/queries.go
index 319526daf..98eb1b9f3 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/queries.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/queries.go
@@ -90,6 +90,17 @@ func Path(p string) queryField {
 	return queryField{name: "path", value: p}
 }
 
+// Repo takes a repository (i.e., kubernetes-sigs/kustomize) and formats
+// it according to the Github API.
+func Repo(r string) queryField {
+	return queryField{name: "repo", value: r}
+}
+
+// Path takes a github username and formats it according to the Github API.
+func User(u string) queryField {
+	return queryField{name: "user", value: u}
+}
+
 // RequestConfig stores common variables that must be present for the queries.
 // - CodeSearchRequests: ask Github to check the code indices given a query.
 // - ContentsRequests: ask Github where to download a resource given a repo and a
diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/queries_test.go b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/queries_test.go
index a5b7e820c..07c9036b6 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/queries_test.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/queries_test.go
@@ -53,8 +53,11 @@ func TestQueryType(t *testing.T) {
 				Filename("kustomization.yaml"),
 				Keyword("keyword1"),
 				Keyword("keyword2"),
+				Repo("user1/repo1"),
+				User("user1"),
 			),
-			expected: "q=size:24..64+filename:kustomization.yaml+keyword1+keyword2",
+			expected: "q=size:24..64+filename:kustomization.yaml+keyword1+keyword2+" +
+				"repo:user1/repo1+user:user1",
 		},
 	}
 
diff --git a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/split_search_ranges.go b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/split_search_ranges.go
index 919d3135d..1322932f4 100644
--- a/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/split_search_ranges.go
+++ b/api/internal/crawl/crawler/github/split_search_ranges.go
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ func FindRangesForRepoSearch(cache cachedSearch) ([]string, error) {
 	if err != nil {
 		return nil, err
 	}
-	logger.Println("total files: ", totalFiles)
+	logger.Println("total kustomization files: ", totalFiles)
 
 	if githubMaxResultsPerQuery >= totalFiles {
 		return []string{