Advanced Search Queries

Learn how to use Operators and Filters to supercharge your searches on itemdb!

Posted at August 26, 2023

When you’re typing your queries in the itemdb search bar, you can throw in some operators and filters to fine-tune your search even more. Check it out:

Boolean Operators

Wow, a weird word, but boolean operators are pretty easy to grasp (and they’re quite powerful too).

AND	Just typing your query will automatically use the AND operator. That means your search results have to include all the terms you’re looking for.	`orange grundo` will return items that have `orange` AND `grundo` in its name
OR	Putting your query in parentheses will activate the OR operator. This means your search results should have at least one of the terms you’re searching for.	`(orange grundo)` will return items that have `orange` OR `grundo` in its name
NOT	Adding a hyphen (-) at the beginning of a word (or operator) will trigger the NOT operator. This means the result of your search MUST NOT contain a term.	`orange -grundo` will return items that have `orange` but doesn’t have `grundo` in its name

You can also mix and match these operators, and that’s where the fun begins! Searching for (yooyu kadoatie) (yellow blue faerie) will return items that contain (yooyu OR kadoatie) AND (yellow OR blue OR faerie) in their name. Try it out!

Thought it was over? Think again! You can also use these two operators to enhance your search

“exact search”	If you put your query in double quotes, itemdb will search for an item that is exactly the same as what you typed.	`"blue yooyu"` will return a Blue Yooyu
Wildcard (*)	The wildcard (*) operator lets you search for a term that can be anything, even if it’s a little different.	`yooyu` will match yooyu* but also yooyuball

Filters

You can also use all the filters on the search page directly in the search bar. All filters are AND by default, which means that if you use one, all the results will have to meet the filter.

You can also use the NOT (-) operator to negate a filter (except numeric ones, sortBy, sortDir and mode)

Item Category (cat)	any item category	`cat:special` `cat:special,toy` `cat:"Mystical Surroundings"`
Type	np, nc, pb, wearable, neohome	`type:np` `type:nc,wearable`
Status	active, no trade	`status:active` `-status:"no trade"`
Vibrant Color	any hex color code	`vibrant:#fff000` `-vibrant:#ff00ff`
NP Price	`priceMin` `priceMax`	`priceMin:2000` `priceMax:2000000`
NC Owls Value	`owlsMin` `owlsMax`	`owlsMin:1` `owlsMax:10`
Rarity	`rarityMin` `rarityMax`	`rarityMin:1` `rarityMax:98`
Weight	`weightMin` `weightMax`	`weightMin:1` `weightMax:100`
Est Val	`estValMin` `estValMax`	`estValMin:1000` `estValMax:25000`
Sort By	name, price, added, owls, color, weight, estVal, id, rarity	`sortBy:price`
Sort Dir	asc, desc	`sortDir:desc`
Mode	name, description, all	`mode:name`

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