# Search by file type
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-by-file-type/122601
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 10, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-by-file-type/122601 "2019-07-10T21:45:51Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author:  [@Banderson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Banderson)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2019, 9:45pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-by-file-type/122601/1 "2019-07-10T21:45:51Z")
I am wondering if there is a way to set up a search by file type for an attachment within posts. I don’t need the contents, but say someone wanted to browse through the post that had a specific extension on the file type of an attachment in the post, that would be handy. Searching for just the extension leads to a lot of false positives because there is a lot of code on our site.
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### Author:  [@zogstrip](https://meta.discourse.org/u/zogstrip)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 10:23am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-by-file-type/122601/2 "2019-07-11T10:23:15Z")
Have you tried `filetypes:csv`? 😉
Support for this was added a couple years ago by @dmacjam
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4958](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/4958)
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### Author:  [@Banderson](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Banderson)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2019, 12:59pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-by-file-type/122601/3 "2019-07-11T12:59:48Z")
I did not, I will check it out, thank you!
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### Author:  [@jomaxro](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jomaxro)
#### Post date: [July 16, 2019, 10:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/search-by-file-type/122601/4 "2019-07-16T22:00:11Z")
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