Content-related search operators

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Content-related search operators

The following table describes search operators you can use to narrow in on results that match specific content attributes.

Content-related search operators
OperatorDescriptionExample

title:

Searches for results where the specified term appears in the title of an article. You can also use it with the proximity search "..."~.

title:olympics

Matches results where "olympics" appears in the title of an article or page.

content:Searches for results where the specified term appears in the body of an article.

content:olympics

Matches results where "olympics" appears in the body of an article or page.

contains:<type>

Matches results that contain the specified media type. Supported post types are:

  • audio
  • image
  • video
  • emoji
  • logo

olympics AND contains:emoji

Matches results that contain the term "olympics" and include an emoji.

posttype:<type>

Matches results that correspond to the specified post type only. Supported post types are:

  • text
  • image
  • video
  • audio
  • link
  • carousel
olympics AND posttype:image

Matches image-based results that contain the term "olympics".

image:object
<type>		Matches results that contain an image with the specified object type. For a full list of supported image objects, see Image object codes for Listening.

animals AND image:object-cow

Matches results that contain the term "animals" and an image of a cow.

image:scene
<type>		Matches results that contain an image with the specified scene type. For a full list of supported image scenes, see Image scene codes for Listening.

dog AND image:scene-canal

Matches results that contain the term "dog" and an image with a canal.

content_ocr:XMatches results that contain the specified term in the text included in an image

content_ocr:olympics

Matches image-based results where the term "olympics" appears in the image.

sourcetype:Matches results from a specific type of media source. For full list of supported media sources, see Media sources codes for Lumen.

olympics AND sourcetype:BLOG

Matches results of "olympics" that are found in blogs only.

 

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