# \[REQUEST\] Advanced search with filters **URL:** \ **Category:** Feature Suggestions\ **Tags:** search\ **Created:** [September 24, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-advanced-search-with-filters/745733 "2021-09-24T18:30:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![KyUub1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/kyuub1/32/254791_2.png) [@KyUub1](https://forums.plex.tv/u/KyUub1)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2021, 6:30pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-advanced-search-with-filters/745733/1 "2021-09-24T18:30:05Z")
**1 -** Currently, the amount of data that we can access is getting bigger every day. In addition to your own library, it is very normal to access libraries from sites that provide content on PLEX. I believe that an advanced filter would help the PLEX a lot to evolve, as sometimes you would like to watch something in a certain category, but you don’t know what. I believe that PLEX needs to treat this metadata more gently. The following options would be a big improvement over current searching: 1 - Search by Title,Genre, Actors, Director, Studio, Show or Everything. I’m envisioning a drop-down 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 - Multi-word 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. 3 - Specifiers 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. some information I copied from another post because I found it useful. ~~**2 -** A favorites option where you can collect movies from various libraries and leave them in a TAG, so you can easily find a particular movie that you would like to watch later, more that you could forget in the future if you don’t leave it marked.~~ [Mod-Edit → duplicate, see below] Thank you. ---
**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:** [September 24, 2021, 7:00pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/request-advanced-search-with-filters/745733/2 "2021-09-24T19:00:28Z")
Let’s focus on the search part of your suggestion. There’s already a suggestion on the handling of favorites – so let’s focus on the search aspect of your suggestion in order to avoid cannibalizing precious attention. > [@My Favorites - Add a list of favorite TV Series and Movies](https://forums.plex.tv/t/my-favorites-add-a-list-of-favorite-tv-series-and-movies/213407): > > Forgive me if this has been requested somewhere else but I was unable to find it. Let me know if this is something that can be accomplished. I love Plex and have used it for years and no other product compares to ease of use. One feature that I have been hoping would get added for a while now is a favorites list. So when I use services that have a large amount of media like Netflix, one of the things that helps me filter down to what I frequently watch or what I am currently watching is a list … **Edit:** the same goes for tagging items to watch later (also part of your #2 > [@\[Implemented\] Feature Request - Watchlist](https://forums.plex.tv/t/feature-request-watchlist/81426): > > Hello dev, I have a feature in mind that I would like to see implemented in Plex for the non deciders, the forgetters, and the relaxers. Watchlist - This feature would allow users to create a new section similarly to 'on deck' dedicated to content that the user plans on watching at some point of time. User can select any video content from any libraries and add it to their watchlist. This feature would make browsing your 1000+ movie library a thing of the past. Let's not also mentioned it wo… # **side note:** please stick with the [feature suggestion guide](https://forums.plex.tv/t/please-read-before-submitting-a-feature-suggestion/273976/) and go with 1 suggestion per thread