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Advanced Search

Feliks Maak edited this page Oct 10, 2023 · 3 revisions

Advanced Search

What is it?

Advanced search is a feature added in version 0.3.2 that lets you precisely filter your game collection straight from the search box. It's inspired by other services that let you search through giant collections, like Gelbooru with artworks and Scryfall with Magic cards, etc.

How to use it?

By default, whatever you write in the search box is matched against all the titles in your collection. But you can modify that behavior by preceding words with appropriate keywords, like so: !tag:rpg - that will show you all your games tagged with the tag "RPG". Every keyword has a couple of versions you can use - they do exactly the same thing but feel free to use the one that feels the best to write for you.

Changing the default search behavior

You can change the default behavior of the search bar in the launcher settings. It defaults to searching through your titles, but you can also set it to search through tags and descriptions without using advanced search keywords.

What keywords are available?

Favourite filter

!fav, !favourite, !favorite, !f

Adding this to your search will limit the results to the games added to your favourites.

NSFW and SFW filters

!nsfw and !sfw

Adding one of these to your search will limit the results to games tagged as NSFW or SFW respectively.

Tag search

!tag:<names>, !tags:<names>, !t:<names>

Adding this to your search will limit the results to the games that are tagged with all the exact tags. You can search for multiple tags by combining !tag keywords or by specifying many comma-separated tags in a single !tag. You can search for tags that have spaces in their name by writing their name in double quotation marks.

Description search

!desc:<text>, !description:<text>, !d:<text>

Adding this to your search will limit the results to the games which descriptions contain the specified text. Surround the text with double quotation marks to include spaces.

Time filter

!time[>|<]<amount>[s|m|h|d]

Adding this to your search will limit the results to the games that you've played for more than or less than the specified time.

Title filter

!title:<text>, !name:<text>, !n:<text>

Adding this to your search will limit the results to the games which titles contain the given string. Surround the text with double quotation marks to include spaces. No reason to use it unless you disable title search in the settings.

Examples

You can mix and match all these keywords and plain text to find precisely what you're looking for.

Search for a 3D Adventure game with "Sword" in the title

Sword !tags:3d,adventure

Search for your favourite Visual Novel with animated scenes

!fav !t:"visual novel","animated scenes"

Search for a yaoi game with "Legend" in the title and something about "cute boys" in the description that you've played for more than 10 hours

!t:yaoi Legend !desc:"cute boys" !time>10h

Search for yuri games where decisions matter that you've never played

!tag:yuri !tag:"decisions matter" !time<1s