Voat is a dragon's horde of crowdsourced data plunder on the crimes and secrets of the global elite. SearchVoat is a great way to datamine it. For easy reference, I've copypasted @SearchVoat's user tips:
Tips and tricks to use with https://searchvoat.co, the independent Voat search:
- Search for words which appear in a submission's title by typing them in Search submissions
- Hit Options for extra search options: Subverse, Posted by, Linked to domain, Search post body, include NSFW, sort Oldest first, Postable format.
- Check Search post body to search the message text, as well as the submission titles.
- Put a minus/hyphen on the front of a word to exclude it, eg bill -clinton.
- Put search text in double quotes to search for an exact word or phrase, eg "centaur" or "I identify as".
- If you know MySQL full text boolean search syntax, put your search in [square brackets] to pass it through to MySQL without preprocessing.
- Limit the search to submissions in a specific subverse by typing it into the Subverse box, eg HillaryforJail. Minuses work there too, eg -news.
- Limit the search to submissions by a particular user by typing it into the Posted by box. Minuses work there too, eg -amalek
- Limit the search to submissions linked to a particular website by typing it into the Linked to domain box eg youtube.com1.
- Subverse, user and website filters can be combined with commas, eg imaginary,fantasyart,specart.
- Check NSFW: include to see NSFW submissions or NSFW: include to see only NSFW submissions ya pervert.
- Results appear in date order, most recent first, unless you check Oldest first.
- List results in Postable format then copy/paste results into a submission or comment to get one of those nice formatted tables.
- Click Create Alert after searching to set up an alert for whenever a new submission matches your search. Sends a PM to your Inbox with a link to the submission. Useful for following users, or monitoring rarely-used subverses, or posts you are interested in which pop up in unexpected subverses.
1Websites are searched transparently through archive and translation sites, so if a neogaf.com page is archived at archive.is, you can still find it by searching for Linked to neogaf.com. Results will include both archived and non-archived links. Also, some sites with multiple domains (eg youtube.com and youtu.be) are aggregated.
Click the lamp icon to toggle night mode.
Within the results, click on a website, user name, or subverse to filter your results.
Limitations:
- New submissions may take up to 30 mins to appear.
- The shortest searchable word is 3 letters. You may be able to search for shorter words in phrases by surrounding them with double quotes.
- Unlike google, Search Voat will not correct your spelling. Check for typos.
- Comments are not searchable, but might be, soon.
- Submission and comment up/down-votes are not available, and probably won't ever be. So you can't sort by score.
- Some deleted submissions may appear, because I retrieve them from Voat only once and they may have been deleted since. If your deleted submission shows up in Search Voat and you want it removed, follow the link to your submission, post a comment to it saying something like "@SearchVoat delete this" - that will ping me and I will ensure it is removed from search results.
Introducing a preview of Search Voat version 2 (beta): https://searchvoat.co/v2
- Search posts, comments and subverses from the same page.
- Faster search (I hope)
- Search short words (like "Q")
Coming soon:
- Alerts
- Buttons to delete/refresh posts (for when you delete a post on Voat but it still shows up on SV)
Comments, questions, suggestions, objections welcome here please.
SearchVoat ago
The original post you've quoted here is out of date in some respects. I'll work on a new one when v2 is stable. In particular, the "exact phrase in double quotes" search can be so slow it's basically unusable, on the old system, and I don't think wildcard* searches* still work. Everything works fine on v2 (probably).
Vindicator ago
Could you ping me if/when you update the tips post? I'll replace this.
SearchVoat ago
Sorry, I take it back, it's mostly accurate after all. Couple of typos in the "NSFW" section: should read
It's just that the more sophisticated search options (double-quotes, minus sign to negate) uses MySQL full text search which works, but is incredibly slow.
Vindicator ago
I edited the OP to replace that bullet point with your updated version.
TreborPJ ago
Unfortunately, I have never gotten search voat to find what I search for. I'll have to adjust with these tips. Thank you.
SearchVoat ago
I'm always interested to hear about specific examples that fail to find results, if you can provide me with any.
blagjesus ago
thanks
Vindicator ago
Very!