# Feature request: Add "includes image" to the Advanced search options
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [December 12, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103 "2016-12-12T01:08:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 1:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103/1 "2016-12-12T01:08:53Z")
Perhaps in the “Only return topics/posts that…” section?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [December 12, 2016, 1:19am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103/2 "2016-12-12T01:19:31Z")
Sure, this popped up before. Support the ability to search for posts with images, but it is not a trivial change.
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### Author:  [@dmacjam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmacjam)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2017, 2:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103/3 "2017-03-13T14:22:11Z")
I have two questions to this feature:
- Is it both for uploaded images and images pasted as links?
- Is there a specific use case for images? I think it might be more general to filter posts with any allowed type of attachment uploaded (e.g. pdf, csv).
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### Author:  [@JagWaugh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JagWaugh)
#### Post date: [March 13, 2017, 2:33pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103/4 "2017-03-13T14:33:29Z")
Good point. Our site only included images, we’ve added .pdf in the meantime.
How about:
“Includes external link”
“Includes uploaded file”
with
`Upload:image, .pdf, xml, .jpg, png`
as manual fine grained filters so the user can add very explicit filters as required?
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### Author:  [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)
#### Post date: [March 16, 2017, 2:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103/5 "2017-03-16T14:41:47Z")
> [@dmacjam](#):
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> Is it both for uploaded images and images pasted as links?
Both.
> [@dmacjam](#):
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> Is there a specific use case for images? I think it might be more general to filter posts with any allowed type of attachment uploaded (e.g. pdf, csv).
I think that should be its own filter. People frequently post images from other image sharing resources like imgur.
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### Author:  [@dmacjam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/dmacjam)
#### Post date: [July 31, 2017, 5:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103/6 "2017-07-31T17:08:20Z")
Resolved with:
- searching for **posts with images** by selecting filter _Includes image(s)_ in section Only return topics/posts that… - [Search posts with images by dmacjam · Pull Request #4917 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4917)
- searching for **posts which contain files with explicit file extensions** by querying ` filetype:pdf` - [FEATURE: Search posts by filetype by dmacjam · Pull Request #4958 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4958)
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### Author:  [@david](https://meta.discourse.org/u/david)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103/7 "2017-11-18T23:11:48Z")
> [@dmacjam](#):
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> searching for posts which contain files with explicit file extensions by querying \ filetype:pdf
This is really useful, but I had to search for a while on meta to find the correct syntax.
Could it be added to the advanced search UI?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 19, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103/8 "2017-11-19T20:53:40Z")
Sure, if you feel like adding it! Go for it
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### Author:  [@coderberry](https://meta.discourse.org/u/coderberry)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2017, 2:00am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103/9 "2017-11-29T02:00:54Z")
This appears to have been completed on master
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [November 29, 2017, 2:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/feature-request-add-includes-image-to-the-advanced-search-options/54103/10 "2017-11-29T02:09:53Z")