reddit search
reddit search allows you to search for submissions and subreddits.
Submissions
The search page for submissions is at http://www.reddit.com/search. You can also search from the sidebar of most reddit pages.
Searching from a specific section of reddit — such as a subreddit, personal multireddit, or temporary multireddit — can limit your search results to that section.
Submission fields
You can search for these parts of a submission:
- title: The submission title.
For example,title:'cats'
- author: The user who submitted the post.
For example,author:'316nuts'
- selftext: For self-posts, the body of the post.
For example,selftext:'cats'
- subreddit or reddit: The submission's subreddit.
For example,subreddit:'316cats'
orreddit:'316cats'
- text: This "pseudo-field" is a combination of title, author, selftext, and subreddit; it is the default field that is searched against if no other field is explicitly given.
For example,text:'cats'
or'cats'
- url: The submission's URL (the website's address).
For example,url:'cats'
- site: The domain of the URL. E.g., "imgur" for http://i.imgur.com/WYyd2Rp.jpg
For example,url:'imgur'
- over18 or nsfw: Whether the post is NSFW. Set to
1
oryes
for NSFW submissions,0
orno
otherwise.
For example,over18:'no'
ornsfw:'0'
- is_self or self: Whether nor not the submission is a text post. Set to
1
oryes
for text posts,0
orno
otherwise.
For example,is_self:'yes'
orself:'1'
- fullname: The submission's link id.
For example,fullname:'13xo2m'
- flair_css_class: The submission flair's CSS class.
For example,flair_css_class:'hide_img_cat'
- flair or flair_text: Any part of the submission flair's text.
For example,flair:'cats'
orflair_text:'cats'
You can search multiple fields at once.
For example, title:'cats' site:'imgur'
Boolean Operators
reddit search supports the boolean operators +
(AND), |
(OR), and -
(NOT) .
- If you separate search terms with
+
(AND) or a space, search finds submissions that contain all of the specified search terms.
For example,'cats+mice'
or'cats AND mice'
- You can use the
|
(OR) operator to separate terms when you want to match submissions that contain either the preceding term(s) or the following term(s).
For example,'cats|mice'
or'cats OR mice'
- You can exclude terms with the
-
(NOT) symbol.
For example,'cats -mice'
or'cats NOT mice'
- You can use parentheses to group parts of a search together.
For example,'(cats|dogs)+bed'
or'(cats OR dogs) AND bed'
Wildcard searches
You can use the *
(asterisk) wildcard operator to perform prefix matching. The *
operator can only be used in conjunction with a search term, by appending to a string. Search matches results that contain the prefix followed by zero or more characters.
For example, jailb*
Limitations and caveats
- Search terms may be stemmed. A search for "dogs" may return results with the word "dog" in them.
- Search results are limited to 1000 results.
- Searching for phrases doesn't seem to work.
- Bug: When searching for a word that includes a symbol, it will get split into multiple words without the symbol. As a result, there may be many extraneous search results returned.
Subreddits
You can search for subreddits at http://www.reddit.com/subreddits/search.
Please direct any questions about search to /r/help.
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