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DaoSearch Search Syntax: Type Your Filters Into the Search Box

The search box takes filters as well as titles. Type a few short words, press Enter, and you land on the filtered catalogue.

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The search box at the top of every page takes filters, not just titles. Type genre:xianxia status:completed, press Enter, and you get the Browse page with those two filters already set. It's the same catalogue and the same filters as the filter panel. This is just a faster way to set them.

Try these first

Each link runs the query, so you can see what it does.

How it reads what you type

  • A filter is a name, a colon and a value, with no space: status:completed.
  • Filters are separated by spaces. The order does not matter.
  • Everything else is the title. sword genre:xianxia searches the title for "sword".
  • Capitals do not matter. Genre:Xianxia is the same as genre:xianxia.
  • Names can be English or Chinese: genre:仙侠 works, and so does status:完结.
  • Names can be cut short when only one name starts that way. genre:sci finds Sci-Fi.
  • A name with a space needs quotes or a hyphen: author:"Er Gen", genre:eastern-fantasy.
  • A minus in front leaves something out. It works for genres and tags: -tag:harem.
  • A word with a colon that is not a filter stays in the title, so Re:Zero is still a title.

Suggestions pause while you type a filter. Press Enter to run the query.

Every operator

Type What you get Good to know
genre:xianxia Books in that genre A subgenre name works too. Two genre: means either one.
-genre:urban Everything but that genre Only in a query with no genre:.
tag:system Books with that tag Two tag: means both.
-tag:harem Books without that tag
status:completed Finished books status:ongoing for the ones still running.
words>1m A million words or more Use k and m: 800k, 1.5m.
words<500k 500,000 words or fewer
words:1m-3m Between the two length means the same: length>1m.
updated<30d Updated in the last 30 days d, w, m or y. See the note below.
author:priest Books by that author English or Chinese pen name. One author per query.
sort:fans That order Any sort the platform's Browse page offers.
order:asc Lowest first Shortest first with sort:words, oldest first with sort:updated.
rt:yes Books on RandomTranslator rt:no hides them instead.
source:fanqie That platform's catalogue qidian, fanqie, jjwxc, faloo, qimao, zongheng, 17k, sfacg, ciweimao.
audience:female The platform's own filter audience on most platforms. JJWXC has pov and access instead.
"two words" Titles with those words together

A few notes on the table.

Updated. The catalogue filters by 1 month, 3 months, 6 months, 1 year, 2 years and 4 years. The query picks the shortest one that covers what you typed, so updated<30d and updated<2w both mean the last month. There is no filter for "not updated since", so updated>1y is not applied.

Platform. Without source:, the query runs on the platform picked beside the search box. Genres, tags and sorts belong to a platform, so the same name can exist on one and not on another.

Sorts. Each platform counts different things. sort:fans works on Qidian, sort:favorites on JJWXC. sort:updated, sort:added and sort:words work everywhere. The search guide lists every platform's sorts.

JJWXC's own filters. access:free and access:paid work as written. pov: takes the value as the filter panel shows it.

When a name is not found

Nothing is dropped quietly. The results page shows your query on one line above the list, and says what it could not use.

  • A name that matches nothing is listed as not applied: type genre:nowhere and the line reads "Not applied: genre:nowhere".
  • A name that could be several things shows them. genre:xian on Qidian reads "Not applied: genre:xian (Xianxia, Xianxia Romance)". Pick one and type a little more.
  • A name with exactly one near match is used, and the line tells you. genre:mance on JJWXC reads "genre:mance read as Romance".

The rest of the query still runs, so you can fix the one name and go again. To see every name a platform has, open its Genres or Tags page.

Where to find this again

Start typing in the search box. The last line of the suggestions has two links: Advanced search, which opens the filter panel, and Syntax, which opens a short list of the operators. The same Syntax link sits on the query line of the results page. This post is under More in the header, as Search syntax.

The filters you land on are ordinary filters. You can change them in the panel, bookmark the page, or save the search to your account.

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Save search

Name these filters to come back to them later.