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
.