Query Operators

restrictions

inurl:<phrase>

only urls with the <phrase> in the url

inlink:<phrase>

only urls with the <phrase> within outbound links of the document

filetype:<ext>

only urls with extension <ext>

site:<host>

only urls from host <host>

author:<author>

only pages with as-author-anotated <author>

tld:<tld>

only pages from top-level-domains <tld>

/http

only resources from http or https servers

/ftp

only resources from ftp servers (they are rare, crawl them yourself)

/smb

only resources from smb servers (Intranet Indexing must be selected)

/file

only files from a local file system (Intranet Indexing must be selected)

ranking modifier

/date

sort by date (latest first)

/near

multiple words shall appear near

"" (doublequotes)

multiple words shall appear near

/language/<lang>

prefer given language (an ISO639 2-letter code)

#(heuristic)#::

heuristics

/heuristic

add search results from external opensearch systems

#(/heuristic)#

Search Navigation

keyboard shotcuts

tab or page-up

next result page

page-down

previous result page

automatic result retrieval

browser integration

after searching, click-open on the default search engine in the upper right search field of your browser and select 'Add "YaCy Search.."'

search as rss feed

click on the red icon in the upper right after a search. this works good in combination with the '/date' ranking modifier. See an example.

json search results

for ajax developers: get the search rss feed and replace the '.rss' extension in the search result url with '.json'