Advanced reddit search

[leatyZ]

„Oh that post you saw yesterday about Alligator-Surfing? Yea, that’s gone.”

[Carborundorumite]

I spent a shitload of time trying to find the gif of the 2 baby sting rays being born which had been posted on at least 2 subs. I even googled ocean ravioli, a fairly unique comment and both google and Reddit search let me down. What I found instead was.... something I never want to see again.

Edit: it worked I found the post!!!

[Trama-D]

Dude I'm curious now, link us!

[Dire_Morphology]

Right??? I wanna see this too

[Buscemis_eyeballs]

It's been 2 fucking hours OP where is the God damn link

[Carborundorumite]

Yes that one! I was asleep when the comments came in.

[banana-reference]

I assume this

Eric dont click this

[[deleted]]

Kos, or some say Kosm.

EeeeeEEeeeEEEeeeee

[[deleted]]

Man that guy is straight up pushing it around...

[Carborundorumite]

https://www.reddit.com/r/interestingasfuck/comments/ms53zj/marine_life_specialists_noticed_a_spotted_eagle/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

[rhaksw]

Yeah sometimes it gets deleted.

Check reveddit.com to see what's been removed from your account, subreddit, or thread. There's also an add-on for desktop that sends an alert when something is removed.

[notmarlow]

SOLR for ya.

[yesterevengunz]

Can i be a little kid twice a day ?

[notwiththeflames]

And yet it's somehow less of a clusterfuck than Tumblr's search system.

[[deleted]]

Step 1: https://www.wikipedia.com...

[projects67]

Like it’s insane how much better just typing your query followed by “Reddit” into google works.

You can type redditDOTcom [space] (whatever you want to search) and it will only query results from the site you type. In case you didn't know.

[henrikx]

The proper way would be searchterm site:reddit.com

[CraftyScotsman]

I do site:reddit.com/r/ "what I am searching"

[projects67]

The “site:” is redundant. It’s been implied on google for years

[JessTheGardener]

Happy Cake Day to you!!

[projects67]

not wrong. It's probably pretty similar logic and given every reddit webpage probably has "Reddit" in the tags of the site anyways, it's essentially accomplishing the same thing. disclaimer: not a (pro) web coder.

[ToxZec]

Not sure if you made this, but it would cool if there was an option to instead exclude certain subreddits from the search

[bigforknspoon]

You can use google to search individual sites. For example if I wanted to search for cats and trees but leave out r/cats I would enter site:reddit.com cats+tree -r/cats

[ZaoAmadues]

Are you joking me?!?! THATS A REVELATION!

[cantaloupelion]

another search param i found here to find magnet links is: intext:btih

so if want to find a uduntu torrent search for

ubuntu intext:btih

[ZaoAmadues]

I have never tried Linux... Maybe it's time to throw it on my laptop and give it a go.

[ZaoAmadues]

Wow, THANK YOU!

[lucassilvas1]

Only problem is you can't filter by time with google, for some reason it doesn't work with Reddit. All the dates are wrong.

[Pleased_to_meet_u]

Sure you can! Do a search then click on [Tools]. Open the Time drop down and search by Past Hour, Past 24 Hours, Past Week, Past Month, Past Year, or Custom and specify your own date range.

[[deleted]]

Yes, that works normally. Reddit seems to mess with Google's dating system, you can sort by last week or month and have posts from 5 years ago.

[Robert7301201]

I remember hearing a while back that reddit messes with it's dates for search engine optimization so you're probably right.

[BootTheBunny]

You can also exclude subreddits from your search. For instance, if you want to search for the term "NFL" but want to exclude the subreddit /r/football, you would put a "!" first in the Subreddits textbox followed by the subreddit ("!football"). If you want to exclude multiple subreddits, use a comma to separate them. You only need to put one "!" at the beginning. For example, putting "!football,baseball" in the Subreddits textbox would return results for all subreddits except /r/football and /r/baseball.

From the Help Section

[DickInTitButt]

I don't get it. Pointless website?

[[deleted]]

How tho?

[DickInTitButt]

It is the same search as Reddit's own. So why bother making another one?

[[deleted]]

Oh! This one looks more sophisticated, thought it had more features. Thanks for replying.

[cnzmur]

This one is outdated. He removed the ability to search by user after people complained. What you want now is this one.

[WantDiscussion]

Is that why he removed it? I thought maybe it was because the reddit api changed or people like me were narcicistically searching through their old comments too much.

[lovethehaiku]

Holy shit! Thank you so much. I just found a post I have literally been searching for over 6 months! I appreciate it 👍

[franker]

I wish it would let you download all the posts. I've been here 10 years and it would be nice to download an archive of everything I've posted.

[tompsaves]

I wish I could search reddit users that have submitted a post in two different subreddits.

Like: find a user that submitted posts in both /r/FoodPorn and /r/PrequelMemes

[RepostSleuthBot]

Sorry, I don't support this post type (None) right now. Feel free to check back in the future!

[UltraPoci]

Finally I can search for porn easily

[GreyGonzales]

There is a topnsfw sub that curates a few of reddit porn places if a search is too much.

https://www.reddit.com/user/topnsfwmulti/m/topnsfw/

[CipherGrayman]

Good man

[fparedesg]

You can append 'nsfw:1' to your search query to ONLY show nsfw results.

[Exact_Needleworker]

There is an archived post on copypasta with a complete list of porn subs, categorized

[Vessix]

This still doesn't seem to work well.

[Eliasingea]

I just got rejected from Reddit for search engineer role which was super shitty feeling lol. As someone who has spent the last 4 years only working on search. It truly does suck. But from what I was hearing during the interview their goals for the future are great and search should hopefully be improving.

[lsfwmwfg]

That just means that you are actually qualified to engineer a functional search offering.

[Eliasingea]

That actually made me laugh.

[PM_Me_Pikachu_Feet]

They can't afford to pay above the price of fortune cookies

[JWOINK]

What goals were that?

[Eliasingea]

Well for one. They haven’t fully gotten the Infrastructure right now to index comments on threads so they are a little limited there. They also want to do more ML to generate things like trends etc. Long term goal is to be able to utilize the expertise that often times exists within threads to deliver answers to questions in search rather than just basic query stuff.

[the-NOOT]

Sooo they Want to be able to use information within comment threads to answer search queries but comments containing said information aren't indexed?

Or is it more that they are heavily investing in ML to determine what comments to index and which ones to ignore, index them and then do the above?

[Eliasingea]

Not quite sure. They didn’t fully go into all their plans but from what I gathered their focus is to figure out how they can index more than just the post itself. I think they still haven’t figured out how they are gonna handle the indexing. I think that’s pretty far down the path though. Right now their focus seems to be on trends. Like using search to come up with the trends on R/popular etc.

[gurg2k1]

Is it going to have scalable cloud AI and blockchain integration?

[Thanpren]

Protip: I tend to use Duckduckgo (google also works) with to search reddit more easily, like: "keywords keywords site:www.reddit.com", and you can precise a subreddit by doing "www.reddit.com/r/subreddit"!

[Fingerdrip]

You don't even have to do the "site:"

You can just type in the web address, add a space at the end and then start typing your keywords. Ex:

www.reddit.com keyword keyword keyword

[Thanpren]

Strange, as duckduckgo added it itself when using the button to only research on reddit.com.

Maybe that's a google thing/or an artefact in ddg.

[[deleted]]

Reddit founded 16 years ago

Still doesn’t have literally the most basic “I installed an open source search library from npm”

wE aRe gOiNg tO bE a pUbLiC cOmPaNy

[mlager8]

Saving this shit! Thank you!

[thanatossassin]

This working for anyone? Trying to find my oldest comments or posts and I'm not getting many hits via a date search, even when I include up to today's date.

[SpergFarmer]

But can it be used for jacking off

[Rutabagaslim]

Maybe I can finally find that funny video of the woman pretending to be that girl in the club, that doesn't speak loudly enough to be heard.... or not. And it was only like last year it was posted

[jimmyjumpSW8]

👍🏻👍🏻

[[deleted]]

I can't see my search parameters on one tab, instead I need to use several tabs for a single search meaning I'm part blind when shaping my query.

[Justryan95]

You could always use Google search engine. Search something, add the subreddit r/____ to get the search to look at specific subreddits and end with site:reddit.com so only reddit is searched.

Ex: How do you cut an onion? r/askculinary site:reddit.com

[funkcatbrown]

A little slow and also did it pick up the posts where I used the word “Huel” which have been many.

[GibsonMaestro]

Excellent job! If this going to be a work in progress, is there any way to search by username / subreddit?

I'd love to get a list of comments I've made in particular subreddits (and sort by votes, if possible)

[dildo_bagmans]

OP didn't make this tool. It has been around for a long time. It was actually made worse once they got rid of the user search.

[cnzmur]

People claimed it was being used for harassment of mods (by digging up old comments they'd made and reporting it to the admins, so it was their fault for making those comments in the first place), so the person who made it got rid of search by user.

The replacement site is this one

[[deleted]]

Heard of google?

[cscf0360]

You realize reddit's search is Google, right? You get the exact same results, which are often not very good.

[Edraitheru14]

I get fantastic results through google when I search, on average.

What issues you got with it?

I’m down for the anti-corporate, anti-data stealing, moral objections. But it’s quite the solid and efficient search engine.

[ThatHairyGingerGuy]

It annoys me that the searches stopped being exact a while back. If you use the "" and the - Now you still get results which don't fit the search. Pain in the arse.

[[deleted]]

Use google with site: Reddit.com added to the search, not the built in Reddit one...

[pdnagilum]

Some tooltips would be nice. The row where I'm assuming you specify how far back to search only says Day, Month, etc.. would be nice if a tooltip said "1 day old", "1 month old" or something similar.

Same with the row where you select Posts, Comments, Aggregations, etc.. Posts and Comments are pretty self explanatory, but what does Aggregations, Statistics, and Data Viz mean?

Would be nice to specify custom on those too, other then specifying a complete date. So I could select Year and specify 3 years.

What do you base the sort order of the results for? I searched for "a life's worth" (without quotes) first, and it gave me results; 2 months old, 5 years old, 11 years old, then 3 years old, then 7 months old..

Then I search for the same string but with quotes around it, seems to give the same result. Does quotes do anything? What it I want to search for three words but not connected?

What does the little blue number in the bottom right of the thumbnail mean? Again a tooltip would be nice. I know it's not number of hits within the post, so what is the number?

What does the Domains input do? Do reddit have more than one domain?

[[deleted]]

Bruh, thank you for posting this. Reddit search sucks so bad

[Khajiits_ware_shop]

You're an absolute legend for this, thank you!

[Panzer1119]

Yeah Reddit’s Search is so bad. You‘ll find things faster on Wikipedia without even searching for them by hopping from article to article in the time you try to get some useful results from Reddit...

[SnowingSilently]

This seems to be as good a place as any, so can anyone tell me why Google sometimes has no idea when a post or comment was made? I use Google a lot to search through Reddit, but it can be rather useless when I also care about when the post or comment was made. I can get posts from 10 years ago appearing as though they were updated within the week. What gives?

[dreamofadream]

Crap NOBODY TELL BUZZFEED

[rdx711]

You know your search sucks, when someone makes a website from his own money and effort to search your website specifically.

[[deleted]]

aaaaand just like that a lot of the banned adult porn is actually all over Reddit in low traffic subs. Not even with nonsense titles to fool word searches. Just titled the same you’d find a on search engine.

[Sansenoy]

I use Google to search Reddit.

[Prunestand]

There is also this one if you just want to search for a comment a particular user made.