Enhanced Search Capability

I'd like to see PMS and PlexWeb searching enhanced. Ideally, the following options would be a big improvement over current searching:

 

  1. Search by Title, Actors, Director, Studio, Show or Everything. I'm envisioning a dropdown in the search bar where you could choose what you want to search by. It would be good to be able to specify the default search method in the settings
  2. Multiword searching. Currently if you type in two words from the title of a movie that are not sequential in the title, it will not return any results. For example, "Harry Potter Chamber" currently will not return "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"
  3. Specifier's allowed for Title, Rating, Genre, Year, etc. So for example, in the search box you could type "rating:PG genre:action year:2013" and it would return all PG movies from 2013 in Action genre. I know that we can do this through options side bar in PlexWeb but this would be a great addition for power users who prefer the keyboard over clicking.

 

Don't forget Collections and Description.

Searching for Christmas should return all items that reference Christmas in the description or the title.

I searched for "James Bond" tonight and couldn't find anything eventhough I have the whole collection :wacko:

Throwing a vote for this ;)

What a crackup
I created a feature request for Advanced Search with basically what is requested here.
Could not find this one to vote.

My request was unceremoniously closed telling me mine was a duplicate request and pointed to this request.

Also, since we cannot edit Cast for titles, search / filter by actor is mostly useless. (That is another 3 year old feature request)

LOL
This request is over 3 years old and no consideration for implementing this.

Well I should have known…

Any request that improves the CORE functionality of a Media Server / Player will NEVER get implemented.

Man Plex take care of some business before adding golly gee wiz features!!!

I now put in an official request to bounce my media off of Satcom 3… I am sure this will begin development immediately. (Although it will stay in beta forever, Full of bugs, and never serviced)

Moderator @darcilicious closed my request for this same feature, asking me to upvote this one instead. Since this one was originally posted in 2012, Plex added then later removed this feature (in “favor” of a completely unconfigurable AIO search experience), so I feel like it’s insufficient to simply vote on this item.

2021 clean-up:

  1. mostly implemented (title, actors, director, show); “everything” → duplicate: Search all metadata
  2. implemented
  3. duplicate: Targeted search