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Search Examples

• zork — Simple keyword search of the Archive description text.
• spell* — Wildcard keyword.
• "zork iii" — Files with the given phrase.
• zork mit — Files with all of the given terms.
• zork OR mit — Files with any of the given terms. (The OR must be capitalized.)
• zork NOT mit — Files with one term but excluding another.
• date:2015 — Files uploaded in the given year. (No space after the colon.)
• date:Oct 2015 — Files uploaded on the given date. The date is parsed flexibly: Oct 10 2015 or 20151011 or a few other forms.
• name:wumpus.bas — Files with the given exact filename.
• dir:zcode — Files within the named directory (any depth). May not include slashes, sadly — only single directory names.
• size:[1000000 TO 1100000] — Files whose size (in bytes) is in the given range.
• wiki:zork_iii — Files tagged with the given IFWiki page. (Use underscores for spaces in wiki pages.)
• tuid:9p8kh3im2j9h2881 — Files tagged with the given TUID (IFDB ID string). This includes TUIDs for both games and competitions.

See the Whoosh query language for more. (Archive search is powered by the Whoosh query engine.)

This form searches files stored on the IF Archive. Note that it searches index descriptions and metadata, not the contents of files.

This form is most useful for finding interpreters, development tools, articles, information, and specific files. If you want to search for IF games by bibliographic information (author, year, platform, competitions or awards) we recommend you search on IFDB instead.