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Search operators

Use exact phrases, exclusions, source filters, author filters, dates, engagement floors, and language filters in Scry search.

Terms and phrases

Bare terms are required words. Put a phrase in double quotes, as in "scaling laws", to require that exact phrase. Prefix a word or quoted phrase with - to exclude it.

Authors and sources

author:<handle> limits results to one account or author. author_wrote:<value> limits results in the historical Twitter archive to authors who also posted about the value; join multiple required words with dots, as in author_wrote:scaling.laws. source:<name> limits the search to one corpus, and comma-separated names select several corpora.

Dates and archive fields

after:YYYY-MM-DD sets the lower date bound and before:YYYY-MM-DD sets the upper date bound. min_faves:<number> sets a minimum likes count in the historical Twitter archive. lang:<code> limits that archive to a language code such as en.

Example

Operators can be combined in one query. The server parser is the authority; the landing controls rewrite that same query text.

"effective altruism" source:lesswrong,eaforum after:2025-01-01 -crypto

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