weblate/docs/user/search.rst
Michal Čihař 9f8f9d71e0 feat(manage): allow admins to search by IP address
This makes looking up based on the server log easier.
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Searching
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.. _search-strings:
Searching for strings
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Advanced queries using boolean operations, parentheses, or field specific lookup can be used to
find the strings you want.
When no field is defined, the lookup happens on source, target, and context strings.
.. image:: /screenshots/search.webp
Simple search
-------------
Any phrase typed into the search box is split into words. Strings containing all
of them are shown. To look for an exact phrase, put "the searchphrase" into
quotes (both single (``'``) and double (``"``) quotes will work): ``"this is a quoted
string"`` or ``'another quoted string'``.
Fields
------
``source:TEXT``
Source string case-insensitive search.
``target:TEXT``
Target string case-insensitive search.
``context:TEXT``
Context string case-insensitive search.
``key:TEXT``
Key string case-insensitive search.
``note:TEXT``
Source string description case-insensitive search.
``location:TEXT``
Location string case-insensitive search.
``priority:NUMBER``
String priority.
``id:NUMBER``
String unique identifier.
``position:NUMBER``
String position in the translation file.
``added:DATETIME``
Timestamp for when the string was added to Weblate.
``state:TEXT``
Search for string states (``approved``, ``translated``, ``needs-editing``, ``needs-rewriting``, ``needs-checking``, ``empty``, ``read-only``).
This field also supports :ref:`search-operators`, so searching for completed strings can be performed as ``state:>=translated``, searching for strings needing translation as ``state:<translated``.
``source_state:TEXT``
Search for source string states, see above for more info.
``pending:BOOLEAN``
String pending for flushing to VCS.
``has:TEXT``
Search for string having attributes - ``plural``, ``context``, ``suggestion``, ``comment``, ``check``, ``dismissed-check``, ``translation``, ``variant``, ``screenshot``, ``flags``, ``explanation``, ``glossary``, ``note``, ``label``, ``location``.
``is:TEXT``
Filters string on a condition:
``read-only`` or ``readonly``
Read-only strings, same as ``state:read-only``.
``approved``
Approved strings, same as ``state:approved``.
``needs-editing`` or ``fuzzy``
Needing editing/checking/rewriting strings, same as ``state:needs-editing OR state:needs-rewriting OR state:needs-checking``.
``translated``
Translated strings, same as ``state:>translated``.
``untranslated``
Untranslated strings, same as ``state:<translated``.
``pending``
Pending strings not yet committed to the file (see :ref:`lazy-commit`).
``automatically-translated``
Strings that were translated automatically (see :ref:`auto-translation`).
``language:TEXT``
String target language.
``component:TEXT``
Component slug or name case-insensitive search, see :ref:`component-slug` and :ref:`component-name`.
``project:TEXT``
Project slug, see :ref:`project-slug`.
``path:TEXT``
Path to the object to limit searching inside component, category, project, or translation.
``changed_by:TEXT``
String was changed by author with given username.
``changed:DATETIME``
String content was changed on date, supports :ref:`search-operators` and :ref:`date-search`.
``change_time:DATETIME``
String was changed on date, supports :ref:`search-operators` and :ref:`date-search`.
Unlike ``changed`` this includes event which don't change content and you
can apply custom action filtering using ``change_action``.
``change_action:TEXT``
Filters on change action, useful together with ``change_time``. Accepts
English name of the change action, either quoted and with spaces or
lowercase and spaces replaced by a hyphen. See :ref:`search-changes` for
examples.
``source_changed:DATETIME``
Source string was last changed on date, supports :ref:`search-operators` and :ref:`date-search`.
``last_changed:DATETIME``
The string was last changed on date, supports :ref:`search-operators` and :ref:`date-search`.
``check:TEXT``
String has failing check, see :doc:`/user/checks` for check identifiers.
``dismissed_check:TEXT``
String has dismissed check, see :doc:`/user/checks` for check identifiers.
``comment:TEXT``
Search in user comments.
``resolved_comment:TEXT``
Search in resolved comments.
``comment_author:TEXT``
Filter by comment author.
``suggestion:TEXT``
Search in suggestions.
``suggestion_author:TEXT``
Filter by suggestion author.
``explanation:TEXT``
Search in explanations.
``label:TEXT``
Search in labels.
``screenshot:TEXT``
Search in screenshots.
``labels_count:NUMBER``
Filter by count of labels
.. _search-boolean:
Boolean operators
-----------------
You can combine lookups using ``AND``, ``OR``, ``NOT`` and parentheses to
form complex queries.
The ``NOT`` operator has higher precedence than the ``AND`` operator; the
``AND`` operator has higher precedence than the ``OR`` operator. You can add
parenthesis to define a precedence of your own.
Omitting the operator will make the query behave like the ``AND`` operator was
used.
.. list-table:: Equivalent expressions
* - ``(state:translated AND source:hello) OR source:bar``
- Parenthesized expression to clearly show the precedence.
* - ``state:translated AND source:hello OR source:bar``
- The ``AND`` operator has higher precedence than the ``OR`` operator.
* - ``state:translated source:hello OR source:bar``
- Query using an implicit ``AND`` operator.
.. _search-operators:
Field operators
---------------
You can specify operators, ranges or partial lookups for date or numeric searches:
``state:>=translated``
State is ``translated`` or better (``approved``).
``changed:[2019-03-01 to 2019-04-01]``
Changed between two given dates (inclusive).
``position:[10 to 100]``
Strings with position between 10 and 100 (inclusive).
.. _date-search:
Searching for DATETIME fields
-----------------------------
Timestamp searching supports multiple ways to specify the value. It supports
wide range of ways to specify date and time.
* ISO 8601 formatted like :samp:`2025-09-08T12:16:55.336146+00:00`.
* English written date and time like :samp:`July 4, 2013 PST`.
* English adverbs of time like :samp:`yesterday`, :samp:`last month`, and :samp:`2 days ago`.
Whenever only the date is specified, it is always used as inclusive and covers
that date. Specify the exact timestamp if you need to override this behavior.
Examples:
``changed:>=2019-03-01``
Changed on 1st March 2019 and later (inclusive).
``changed:>="2 weeks ago"``
Changed 2 weeks ago from the current date and time.
``changed:>=yesterday``
Changed starting yesterday.
``changed:2019``
Changed in the year 2019.
``changed:[2019-03-01 to 2019-04-01]``
Changed between two given dates (inclusive).
``changed:[20_days_ago to yesterday]``
Changed between two relative dates (inclusive).
Exact operators
---------------
You can do an exact match query on different string fields using ``=`` operator. For example, to
search for all source strings exactly matching ``hello world``, use: ``source:="hello world"``.
For searching single word expressions, you can skip quotes. For example, to search for all source strings
matching ``hello``, you can use: ``source:=hello``.
.. _search-changes:
Searching for changes
---------------------
.. versionadded:: 4.4
Searching for history events can be done using ``change_action`` and
``change_time`` operators.
For example, searching for strings marked for edit in 2018 can be entered as
``change_time:2018 AND change_action:marked-for-edit`` or
``change_time:2018 AND change_action:"Marked for edit"``.
Regular expressions
-------------------
Anywhere text is accepted you can also specify a regular expression as ``r"regexp"``.
For example, to search for all source strings which contain any digit between 2
and 5, use ``source:r"[2-5]"``.
.. hint::
The regular expressions are evaluated by the database backend and might use
different extensions, please consult the database documentation for
more details:
* `PostgreSQL Regular Expressions Details <https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/functions-matching.html#POSIX-SYNTAX-DETAILS>`_
Predefined queries
------------------
You can select out of predefined queries on the search page, this allows you to quickly access the most frequent searches:
.. image:: /screenshots/query-dropdown.webp
Ordering the results
--------------------
There are many options to order the strings according to your needs:
.. image:: /screenshots/query-sort.webp
.. _search-users:
Searching for users
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.. versionadded:: 4.18
The user browsing has similar search abilities:
``username:TEXT``
Search in usernames.
``full_name:TEXT``
Search in full names.
``language:TEXT``
User configured translation language (see :ref:`profile-translated-languages`).
``joined:DATETIME``
String content was changed on date, supports :ref:`search-operators`.
``translates:TEXT``
User has contributed to a given language.
You might want to limit contribution time by ``change_time``, for example ``change_time:>"90 days ago"``.
``contributes:TEXT``
User has contributed to a given project or component.
You might want to limit contribution time by ``change_time``, for example ``change_time:>"90 days ago"``.
``change_time:DATETIME``
Same as in :ref:`search-strings`.
``change_action:TEXT``
Same as in :ref:`search-strings`.
Additional lookups are available in the :ref:`management-interface`:
``is:bot``
Search for bots (used for project scoped tokens).
``is:active``
Search for active users.
``email:TEXT``
Search by e-mail.
``ip:TEXT``
Search by audit log IP address.