 Hi there, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rosalier. I want to do another video today about reddit search operators So reddit search operators I did one a few months ago about a couple of them and I said I wanted to keep it short So I only did one or two and for the purposes of completion I want to do another video going through more of them because these are actually really really useful if You are using reddit for yourself or for work or you want to see what people are writing about your business on reddit Let's say and that's what I think is one of the most useful things about reddit relative to other major social networks Is that reddit is in the vast majority of its content is social discourse on the open web Sometimes called a clear web if you compare reddit to let's say Facebook where you have a lot of private Facebook groups Those are technically deep web. They'll be on the reach of search bots because they are closed Communities are not index sometimes you have other fora in which webmasters will configure a disallow bot access in the robots.txt So that's why reddit has become kind of is often used by researchers as a kind of surrogate for Social conversation on the internet because it's really really easy Compared to many other social networks at least to find telegram groups in the same same category there So there is reddit does have its own search language now One way that you can search through reddit posts I've just I started this video then I just kind of aborted it. So these are some things I was Using to demonstrate but let's let's say I was using Google You know, you can use site reddit.com and your search query that will work But you're probably gonna have better results by actually searching within reddit using the reddit search operators now Where you'll find these documented. It's reddit.com forward slash wiki forward slash search And I went through one or two of these as I said the last day and for this video I want to go through a few more before I do I just want to break down what you what you can use So firstly you have the field search operators and I'm gonna spend the majority of this video talking about these Then you have boolean operators reddit actually supports three boolean operators now boolean The most policy here to say these are named after George Boole who was a professor of mathematics as Queens college now university college cork, which is where I went for my undergraduate So boolean operators are used in Google searches, but you can also actually use them. They're supported within reddit's language So you've got and or not and reddit just points out here that they're going to be deprecating and Pipe and minus in the near future. So just as an FYI. They want you to be using these So that makes it possible to combine different things. So let's say I wanted to do author Daniel Rossell or author Daniel 123 let's say, right? So this would return any post either by this reddit user or by this reddit user now Just in case anyone watching this hasn't signed up for reddit and doesn't use reddit reddit when you create a reddit account you pick a username and then you're going to guess a URL that looks a bit like this reddit.com forward slash you forward slash whatever your username is a subreddit's going to look like this It's got R in the middle. So user has you so whatever comes after this that is your username and these field search Operators are case sensitive. That's important to you just to note as well So you want to make sure that if you use a capital D, you remember that when you're doing these etc So I'm just going to go through some of the useful ones firstly author is really useful if you're trying to track a Certain redditor, and I don't mean this in kind of a creepy way or you're trying to see what a reddit account Posted in a forum then you could easily combine those two operators. So let's say trying to think of a subreddit I that I use I use posting quite a lot of subreddits, but let's say Subreddit sys admin now we have a query ready to go there if I've ever posted in the subreddit called sys admin and I chose that because I'm going to just kind of roll with that for a couple of examples here and then I can Just put this in like this and go like this and hit return and if everything goes good, here we go So I posted two Threads over the course of my reddit career in sys admin I'm gonna actually just go into it because I want to I want to use it for just to demonstrate one other flare So it's a pretty big subreddit 56,000 members in it. So That was the author operator. So just to reiterate there It's author username and you can use and or a not in combination with that. The next one is flare So flare in reddit is used to basically organize if you have a big subreddit That's why I wanted to keep a tab open for sys admin The moderators of the reddit can configure what are called flares So flares are used to basically organize if you've got a big subreddit like sys admin and There's a lot of posts going in there And you want some way for people interested in a particular Sub-topic to search through the posts the mods or the moderators will configure flares now sometimes The flares are not publicly visible in other times They are so you might be able to see all the flares that are actually there But if we take at this subreddit sys admin, you can see one two three four five six different flares Now what what happens when I click on a flare? Let's say in this case rant. So if we look at the url structure here Something has changed after sys admin. It's added this This highlighted text here a question mark hyphen I'm forgetting all these all these all these characters f equals flare underscore name And equals rant And and double quotation marks as well Okay, so that's how we can use a flare operator. So in this case, it's flare rant So I'm just gonna keep this here as well. And because it's case sensitive I'm just making sure I'm preserving that capital R Another one is NSFW which stands for not safe for work. So kind of a racier content on reddit. It has It has one and zero and yes or no So you can use either one is yes and zero is no so I can do NSFW zero to indicate no Self for text submissions No, otherwise one and zero also supported as so self. Yes Now that's only going to bring back text submissions and I can do I'm just gonna keep these all on the clipboard here Self know and we're going to combine these with different operators site is really useful if you're doing brand monitoring on reddit So you do site and you can have either a URL or you can even actually have a URL, you know, you can either have a base domain or you can have an actual full URL. So let's just Let's pick up at Forbes comm and let's just run that through the search Subreddit, this is really really useful. So this will limit your searches to a particular subreddit and again It's case sensitive. So let's go for sysadmin here. It is capitalized in the title and not in the actual subreddit. So be Cognizant and make sure you're using the right things And that is basically it Search results are limited to 1000 results search terms may be stemmed So a search for dogs may return results with the word dog in them and the three bullying operators are and or not And you can also use parentheses to group parts of a search together The example reddit gives here is hedgehogs or porcupines not sonic. So Let's now combine these into a few different Practices so let's say I wanted to only find the sysadmin post on reddit. So Reddit is going to be subreddit is going to be sysadmin and for flair We're going to do rant. Sorry. This is only looking for rents, right? So I'm just going to copy that here Put this in here and from anywhere on reddit. I've just jumped to Only the post in sysadmin and that have rant as the flair and I can sort by Relevance hot top new just as if I was using reddit regularly of the same search options. Um, so that's really really cool So let's do Another combination, let's say for instance, let's just use this one site forbs.com And now what you're going to see is it's going to be all the posts that have referenced forbs.com and reddit So because that's a pretty big website. That's why I chose it if I click on new we should start to see pretty Significant Traffics we can see 48 minutes ago one hour ago one hour ago There's a lot of redditors sharing Forbes links and if I did like medium.com or something like that It would be quick as well. Now if I go into sysadmin, that's subreddit So let's just take the last guy you posted here And I'm going to just wrap up with this just to show one of the boolean operators So the world of goods so if I wanted to do something like this Subreddit is going to be sysadmin and we can use parentheses for this part of the query Author is going to be me or it's going to be the world of Good and we don't want not say for work post so NSFW sets a zero now What I can do is just grab this put it into the There we go. So now what we're seeing is results posts that are either by This reddit user of the world of good my posts are going to be in there here So you can see this is me at the bottom. This is the world of good here And we can search by new and I'm not sure there's a limit to how many times How much you can batch queries into one into one query if that made any sense Like if I could use a bunch of different user names, so this is just another as another example here If I wanted to see who was sharing my medium posts on reddit I could just type my medium handle like this into the search bar and it will return That and I could do again, you know not author to exclude Post I was sharing and actually see what other people were sharing my posts on reddit And that is those are the majority of the useful search operators So again, if you want to find them, it's reddit.com forward slash wiki Forward slash search and whether you are doing brand monitoring or you're a reddit power user Or you just want to narrow down a search query ie, you know You want to see what some redditor or reddit tours Posted in a certain subreddit that were text posts that were not not safe for work Then using one of those queries you can easily build out a query put that into reddit and get the results Hope that video is useful. 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