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Search options
While searching on a Codidact site, you have several options to help refine your search and make it easier to find what you're looking for. Searching will search all posts across that site, including Questions, Answers, Meta posts, and whatever other post types your site may have.
Basic keyword searching
Let's say you want to search for the term snake oil
. You have a few basic options:
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plain search
If you put the text
snake oil
into the searchbox, Codidact will find all posts that contain either the wordsnake
oroil
. -
exact search (quote marks)
If you include quote marks around your search term, such as
"snake oil"
, Codidact will find all posts that contain exactly the phrasesnake oil
. -
keyword search (plus symbol)
If you search for
+snake +oil
, Codidact will find all posts that contain both the wordssnake
andoil
. -
excluding words (minus symbol)
If you want to search for
snake
but exclude the wordoil
from your results, you can do a search forsnake -oil
. Codidact will find posts that contain the wordsnake
but do not have the wordoil
.
Filtering by score and age
It's possible to filter your search to only include results that have been posted within a certain timeframe, or match certain score requirements.
You can use >
, >=
, <
, and <=
with these options to search for ranges. By default, a value without an operator looks for an exact match. For example, upvotes:4
searches for exactly 4; upvotes:>=4
searches for at least 4.
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filtering by post score
Codidact uses Wilson scoring to help in sorting posts. (To learn more about how this works, see /help/scoring for a detailed explanation.) Every post has a score between 0.0 and 1.0. To use this in search, you can use
score:>=0.5
to filter your search to only include posts with a score of at least 0.5. -
filtering by votes
If you want to filter by the raw votes that a post has, you can use
votes:5
to find posts where the net votes (upvotes minus downvotes) of a post equals 5 orvotes:>=5
for votes of 5 or more. -
filtering by upvotes and downvotes
If you search for
upvotes:4
, Codidact will find posts that have received exactly 4 upvotes, irrespective of how many downvotes the post has. Likewise, if you search fordownvotes:4
, Codidact will find posts that have received exactly 4 downvotes without taking upvotes into consideration.downvotes:<4
will find posts that have received fewer than four downvotes total). -
filtering by number of answers
If you want to find posts with
n
answers, useanswers:n
. This is particularly helpful to find unanswered questions:answers:0
.answers:<5
shows posts with fewer than five answers. -
filtering by creation date
If you want to only find posts that have been written within a certain timeframe, you can use the
created:
search operator.created:<1w
will find all posts created less than a week ago, wherecreated:>1w
will find only posts older than a week. You can usem
for minute,h
for hour,d
for day,w
for week,mo
for month, andy
for year.
Filtering by tag, user, category, or post type
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filtering by tag
To filter for all posts with the tag
snake
, use thetag:snake
operator. To exclude all posts with the tagoil
, use-tag:oil
. -
filtering by user
If you want to search for posts written by a particular user you will need to know their unique user number for the community. This can be found by looking at their profile URL. You can then use
user:xxxx
wherexxxx
is the unique user number you are interested in. -
filtering by category
To filter by category, you will need to know the unique numeric ID for that category. This can be found by looking at the URL shown when you click to view all posts in a particular category. Use the formatting
category:xxxx
to apply this filter. -
filtering by post type
If you want to restrict your search to a particular post type, type
post_type:
into the search bar, and a dropdown menu should show the available post types to search. Note that not all communities may use all post types.
Advanced
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wildcard
If you search with an asterisk (
*
) at the end of a word, such assnake*
, Codidact will find all posts that contain words beginning with the letterssnake
, including words such assnakeskin
. (This does not work at the beginning of a word; only the end.) -
results for either one of two words
Searching with parentheses will allow you to search for a keyword, and either one of two other words. For instance,
+oil +(snake palm)
will find posts that contain the wordoil
and either the wordpalm
orsnake
. -
weighting keywords
When searching with multiple keywords, you can weigh different keywords separately. Using a tilde before a word will lower that word's weight, and have Codidact sort results with that keyword more towards the back. For instance,
+snake ~oil
will find all posts that contain the wordsnake
, but rank the results that also contain the wordoil
lower.If you're searching with parentheses, you can rank words within those parentheses differently.
+snake +(>skin <oil)
will find all posts that containsnake
and eitherskin
oroil
, but will rank results that containskin
higher than the results that containoil
.