How to use lucene query to search for posts?

[Apolos7]

Hello,

I'm trying to perform a more targeted search for posts and I noticed that in the documentation the search parameter accepts Lucene queries, however, when trying to use the query below I didn't get any results.

('reforma tributária' OR 'cortes de gastos' OR 'reforma fiscal')

I'm using the Apache Lucene 2.9.4 documentation as a reference.

Thank you for your time. I look forward to your response.
Best regards,
Alessandro

[rectalogic]

I don't think it supports Lucene, it's just doing LIKE %term%

atproto/packages/bsky/src/data-plane/server/routes/search.ts

Lines 39 to 42 in 88ce852

	let builder = db.db
	.selectFrom('post')
	.where('post.text', 'like', `%${term}%`)
	.selectAll()

[bnewbold]

That description field is kind of misleading in this context, because it is describing the API shape in general, not the specific Bluesky API implementation of it.

It is saying, "if you are a developer implementing a search service, you might want to use syntax something like the Lucene query syntax". It doesn't mean the Lucene syntax is required, or that any implementation of the endpoint support the full Lucene query syntax.

In short, we support a small hand-implemented set of search queries/facets. You can read more here:
https://bsky.social/about/blog/05-31-2024-search