YaCy Search

Query Operators

restrictions

inurl:<phrase>

only urls with the <phrase> in the url

inlink:<phrase>

only urls with the <phrase> within outbound links of the document

filetype:<ext>

only urls with extension <ext>

site:<host>

only urls from host <host>

author:<author>

only pages with as-author-anotated <author>

tld:<tld>

only pages from top-level-domains <tld>

on:<date>

only pages with <date> in content

from:<date1> to:<date2>

only pages with a date between <date1> and <date2> in content

keyword:<phrase>

only pages with keyword anotation containing <phrase>

/http

only resources from http or https servers

/ftp

only resources from ftp servers (they are rare, crawl them yourself)

/smb

only resources from smb servers (Intranet Indexing must be selected)

/file

only files from a local file system (Intranet Indexing must be selected)

spatial restrictions

/location

only documents having location metadata (geographical coordinates)

/radius/<latitude>/<longitude>/<distance>

only documents within a square zone embracing a circle of given radius (in decimal degrees) around the specified latitude and longitude (in decimal degrees)

ranking modifier

/date

sort by date (latest first)

/near

multiple words shall appear near

"" (doublequotes)

multiple words shall appear near

/language/<lang>

prefer given language (an ISO 639-1 2-letter code)

Search Navigation

keyboard shortcuts

Access key modifier + n

next result page

Access key modifier + p

previous result page

automatic result retrieval

browser integration

after searching, click-open on the default search engine in the upper right search field of your browser and select 'Add "YaCy Search.."'

search as rss feed

click on the red icon in the upper right after a search. this works good in combination with the '/date' ranking modifier. See an example.

json search results

for ajax developers: get the search rss feed and replace the '.rss' extension in the search result url with '.json'