query syntax?

  • What is the syntax of the query string? As far as I can tell it ignores non-alphabetics, and performs an OR on two, but not three words (e.g. “string1 string2” seems to find events containing string1 or string2). But it’s kind of hard to figure out just by trying various things.

    So what CAN we put in the query string? e.g. I’d like to query for string1 OR string2 OR string3

    can it be a regexp is some format?

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  • Plugin Contributor Ross Hanney

    (@rosshanney)

    Mike,

    Are you referring to the “Search query” option in the development version of the plugin?

    If so, the documentation on what is / isn’t supported can be found in this table (under “q”). Basically though, OR and regular expressions won’t work.

    You could sort of emulate OR by using a different feed in the plugin for each search term. So feed 1 would have a search query of “string 1”, feed 2 would have “string 2” and so on. Not a particularly elegant solution, though.

    Thread Starter MikeShand

    (@mikeshand)

    Ross,
    Thanks. I couldn’t get that syntax to work though. I found by experiment that
    ‘”word1+word2″‘
    would search for an exact match of a string containing a space. I couldn’t get “word1 word2” to work.

    Is there some munging that happens when the string given to the plugin is encoded in the q=

    I assume it uses some URLencoding.

    Plugin Contributor Ross Hanney

    (@rosshanney)

    Mike,

    Yeah, the URL encoding might be interfering. I’ll need to look into it further.

    Thread Starter MikeShand

    (@mikeshand)

    Hmmm. Something suddenly changed (presumably the google API) and the ‘”word1+word2″‘ trick to search for a string containing a space no longer works. Anyone got any ideas?

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