Search API -- excluding multiple tags

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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?

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  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
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  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
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  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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