Query Syntax

Examples

"David cameron" europe tags:blog

Blog articles with "David cameron" AND "europe" in the content. Note the use of quotes to include the space.

headline:"david cameron"

All articles with the prime minister's name in the headline.

headline:(green OR (yellow blue))

returns articles with either "green" in the title, or both "yellow" and "blue".

tags:(grapefruit -citrus)

Find articles tagged grapefruit, but not citrus.

tory

Equivalent to "content: tory". NOTE: this will match both "tory" and "victory". This will likely change in future.

published:[2014-01-01 TO 2014-01-31]

Articles published during January (the range is inclusive - the start/end dates are included)

published:[ TO 2014-05-01]

Articles published before or on 2014-05-01

published:[ 2014-05-01 TO ]

Articles published on or after 2014-05-01

content:ukip

All articles containing ukip in the main text (or just plain "ukip" will do, as content is the default field)

pub:spectator

all articles from the spectator

urls:/commentisfree/ -tags:comment

any article with a url containing /commentisfree/ URL, and isn't tagged as comment.

headline:="weekly roundup"

Match all articles with the exact title "Weekly Roundup" (but not, say, "Bob's weekly roundup"). The equals sign (=) means that the whole field must match.

published:=""

Match all articles with a blank publication date.

kw:"better together"

All articles with a "better together" keyword

Fields

headline

The title of the article

content

The article text (in html). If no field is specified in a search term, then content is assumed.

authors

Authors (can be more than one, and each author can have multiple fields (name, email, twitter etc)

published

the date (and, optionally, time) that the article was first published

updated

the date (and, optionally, time) that the article was last updated. Might be blank.

tags

a list of tags that have been applied to the article

kw

List of keywords, as scraped from the original article (some sites have good keywords, others have crap)

pub

The publication (sun, guardian etc..)

urls

the URLs of the article (can be more than one)

canonicalurl

the canonical URL of the article (if known)