# Is searching programme descriptions or chapter descriptions possible? (PC/Android) **URL:** \ **Category:** Plex Players\ **Tags:** search\ **Created:** [March 30, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/is-searching-programme-descriptions-or-chapter-descriptions-possible-pc-android/910768 "2025-03-30T13:00:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![jo6316](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/6a8cbe/32.png) [@jo6316](https://forums.plex.tv/u/jo6316)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 1:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/is-searching-programme-descriptions-or-chapter-descriptions-possible-pc-android/910768/1 "2025-03-30T13:00:27Z")
Trying to get better searching for my own library. Searching is fine for file/movie/episode titles, but I want to be able to search episode descriptions and ideally the chapter mark descriptions as well. For example, with the images here, I can get episodes by searching, eg, “1982-01-30 Mid-South Wrestling”. However, I’d like to be able to search “Wiskowski” and get the episode in the first image show up. In an ideal world, I could search “Carlos Zapata” and get the episode in the second image show up. Is there any way to do this on either desktop or Android Plex? It feels like something that should be doable given Plex clearly has access to this text, which is built into the individual file (it’s not retrieved from an external database like with some TV shows or movies, but instead was, shall we say, already in the file when the file was first put on my PC.) ![Screenshot_1](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/1/7/e/17e2297f794530566a4d32d977826ceddfd3e73d.png) ![Screenshot_2](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/4X/4/a/d/4adb612df6b95b2362c67101a05a98fb69e6d8f1.png) ---
**Author:** ![pshanew](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/pshanew/32/160555_2.png) [@pshanew](https://forums.plex.tv/u/pshanew)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/is-searching-programme-descriptions-or-chapter-descriptions-possible-pc-android/910768/2 "2025-03-30T14:07:24Z")
There are at least a couple of existing feature suggestions which cover what is being requested here. This appears to be the one with the most votes: > [@Search Engine: to be able to search also in description of TV show/Movie](https://forums.plex.tv/t/search-engine-to-be-able-to-search-also-in-description-of-tv-show-movie/662749): > > Hi, it would be great if the search engine of plex would be able to search in description of a movie and especially for TV show. if not by default we should have a checkbox somewhere in the setting to be able to do it. i have a couple of tv shows and documentaries that i record for archiving purpose and often, i search for a subject i know they covered, but i don’t know the title of the episode, so i search a keyword that i know will be in the description, however i never got any result from t… ---
**Author:** ![tom80H](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/tom80h/32/19753_2.png) [@tom80H](https://forums.plex.tv/u/tom80H)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2025, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/is-searching-programme-descriptions-or-chapter-descriptions-possible-pc-android/910768/3 "2025-03-30T16:48:30Z")
Just adding a similar suggestion to include chapter titles in search results > [@Chapter titles in Plex search results](https://forums.plex.tv/t/chapter-titles-in-plex-search-results/227947): > > Hi there! From what I can tell Plex allows agents to provide chapters to movies/shows, with a title and start time, eg. with [http://chapterdb.org/](http://chapterdb.org/) as a source. However these chapters do not seem searchable from the Plex UI. Would it be possible to include these in the search index, so that if I search for e.g. “Littlefinger” it shows a search result with that scene from GoT, and playback will go directly to that chapter? Thanks for any info on this! tor arne ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/is-searching-programme-descriptions-or-chapter-descriptions-possible-pc-android/910768/4 "2025-06-28T16:49:09Z")
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