Advanced search

You can use the search bar to look up posts with a query. There are several tricks for using the search bar which are described in this document.

Look for substring

Query: text.

Result: all posts that have text in its title, text or URL.

Notes:

• The text is case-insensitive, so queries text and TEXT yield the same results.

• If the query is text1 text2, the search engine looks for text1 text2, not for text1 and text2 separately.

Require tag

Query: #tag, #tag1 #tag_two.

Results: all posts that have all the provided tags at once.

Notes:

• Use _ instead of spaces in the tag names.

• The tag names are case-insensitive.

• If you look for just one tag and nothing else, you are redirected to that tag's page.

Exclude tag

Query: -#tag, -#tag1 -#tag2.

Results: all posts that do not have the provided tags.

Notes:

• Use _ instead of spaces in the tag names.

• The tag names are case-insensitive.

• If you require and exclude the same tag, you get no results.

Look for reposts only

Query: repost:

Results: only reposts will be found.

Notes:

• You can not filter by original author yet, but it is planned later. That's what the colon is there for.

Combining

You can combine all the syntaxes in one query.

• granny smith #apple

• smith -#apple #actor

If a tag instruction is inserted between usual text, the text is combined first. So, these are equivalent: granny #apple smith and granny smith #apple.