usage:

needle

only show result containing needle

-needle

only show result not containing needle (has priority over positive query terms)

~needle

only show results matching at least one of the several ~needle tokens (eg ~a ~b will search content contening a or b)

"needle in haystack"

search needle in haystack, allow to search terms containg whitespace or other search operator (-/:) without conflict

criteria:term

search term on a given criteria, possible criteria are:

• bookmark: number of times story has been bookmarked
• bookmarks: see bookmark
• c: see char
• chapter: number of chapters
• chapters: see chapter
• char: this character is in the story
• comment: number of comments on the story
• comments: see comment
• f: see fandom
• fandom: the particular show, movie, book, or other thing the fanfiction is about.
• hit: number of hits the story has received
• hits: see hit
• kudo: number of kudo the story has received
• kudos: see kudo
• is: search characteristic of story, current possibilities: complete, crossover, ongoing, categories f/f, f/m, gen, m/m, multi, other, and ratings n/g/t/m/e for respectively not rated/general/teen and up/mature/explicit.
• lang: language of the story (eg. lang:english)
• pair: this pairing is in the story, each searched character of a pairing must be separated by a / character, - in front of a character so he is not in the pairing
• tag: search in the tags
• u: see updated
• updated: time when last updated
• w: see word
• word: number of words in the story
• words: see word

:>quantified and :<quantified

for some criterias (bookmark, chapter, comment, hit, kudo, pair, updated, word) the term can be quantified more specifically, for example:

• updated:<3month will search stories updated since 3 months ago
• kudo:>4000 will search stories with more than 4000 kudos
• words:>4242 words:<8585 will search for stories between 4243 and 8584 words
• pair:3 search pairing with 3 characters

for date type (updated), a quantifier can be used at the end:

• y, year, years: will be a number of year
• m, month, months: will be a number of month
• w, week, weeks: will be a number of week
• d, day, days: will be a number of day

with only a number, the default meaning is a number of days (eg. p:>200days is the same that p:>200)