ProjectVinyl's search function is designed to work similarly to that of Derpibooru.
Searching for a single tag name returns all videos with that tag, a list of tags
returns all videos that have all of those tags.
Boolean Logical Group
Multiple terms can be combined using logical operators to further refine the returned result set.
OR
(|)
combines the results that match the terms on either side.
i.e.
pinkie pie | vinyl scratch
returns results matching
pinkie pie
OR
vinyl scratch
AND
(&
or
,)
only returns results matching
both
terms on either side.
i.e.
The same example
pinkie pie & vinyl scratch
will only return results that have both of those tags. So only videos featuring pinkie pie AND vinyl scratch.
Parentheses
()
and
()
can also be used to group terms or provide emphasis. They can make it easier to read and
( pinkie pie | vinyl scratch ) & rarity
will provide different results to
pinkie pie | ( vinyl scratch & rarity ).
NOT
(-)
Sometimes you just don't want to see something. The not parameter negates any query terms that come immediately after it. This can be any single tags
-pinkie pie
, or a group using parentheses.
- ( pinkie pie | rarity )
System tags
Videos additionally have support for searching them by many of their special attributes.
title:<title>
returns any videos with a matching name
source:<source>
returns any videos with a matching source
uploader:<username>
returns any videos posted by the named user
is:audio
returns videos only if they are an audio file
is:upvoted
returns videos only videos that have been liked by the current user (has no affect for anonymous users)
is:downvoted
equivalent to
is:upvoted
but for dislikes
Ranged tags
All of the below tags may also be inverted by replacing the '<' with a '>'.
length<X
returns any videos with a length less than X where X is in the format of hh:mm:ss
score<X
returns any videos with a score less than X
Wildcards
*
will match any terms. The query
pinkie*
will also match
pinkie pie
,
pinkie rose
, or really anything beginning with the word
pinkie.
