Search API -- excluding multiple tags

Alan Lawrance

February 23, 2022 20:13

I am doing a search with the expression:

"resource_type:video AND -tags=fail AND -tags=cheat"

This results in the error shown:

If I change the expression to exclude only a single tag, the search works as expected.

Is there a different syntax to search for items that don't include multiple tags?

Comments

4 comments

Francis Tagbo

February 24, 2022 10:14
Hi Alan,

To add multiple tags in the search expression, you can use the comma ",". For your requirement, you can use the expression:
```
"resource_type:video AND -tags=fail,cheat"
```
Could you please try and let me know how it goes?

Regards,
Francis
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Alan Lawrance

February 24, 2022 13:30 Edited
Thank you, this fixes the issue with an error occurring!

However, the results are not what I expected. I have an item with a single tag "cheat" and it is getting returned when the expression includes -tags=cheat,mod.

Even items with both cheat and mod tags are getting returned.

Example on dashboard:

Tracing into the SDK, here is what is passed to the endpoint for the search params:
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Francis Tagbo

February 25, 2022 08:35 Edited
Hi Alan,

Could you please try
```
"resource_type=video AND -tags:cheat,mod"
```
Change the equals sign "=" to colon ":". The equals sign is expecting an exact match.
You can learn more about this here.

Please let me know how it goes.

Regards,
Francis
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Alan Lawrance

February 25, 2022 17:14
Using the colon worked perfectly, thank you!
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