Lets say I have a link inside my post. Is there a way to find that post by searching the link? The normal search doesn’t support this. https://meta.discourse.org/search?q=meta.discourse.org%2Ft%2Fsearching-by-link-address%2F92406

Are you looking for a single link or a list of links that have been shared? You can access the list of URLs via the Data Explorer plugin if you have that

Our search tokenizer currently strips out link locations (the href part). I agree it makes sense to improve this so searching microsoft.com would automatically find all posts with links to microsoft.com. I am adding this to my list as a nice small improvement we can make to search.

@nbianca this is a fun little change for HtmlScrubber in search_indexer.rb , we don’t have to worry about history here. Can you add to your list?

Coo!l fix by @nbianca is now merged :partying_face:

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hosna (hosna) July 15, 2018, 8:05pm 3

I don’t want to use a plugin. I want to use built in discourse search.

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