Search your Vault

Bitwarden vaults can be searched to quickly surface relevant items. Basic searches are the default in every Bitwarden app. In the web app, browser extension, and desktop app, you can run more advanced Lunr searches by prefixing your query with the "greater than" (>) character.

The results available for any search are dependent on what is currently opened through the filter menu or navigation, for example:

• If All Items is selected, searches will check all vault items for results.

• If Login is selected, searches will check all login items for results.

• If My Folder is selected, searches will check items in that folder for results (not including items in a nested folder).

• If a Collection is selected, searches will check for results within the selected collection.

The placeholder text in the search box will change to indicate the current search location:

Basic search is the default search mode in every Bitwarden app. Entering search text (for example, Github or myusername) will look for the entered information in the following vault item fields:

• For any item, its name

• For any item, its ID

• For login items, username

• For login items, its URI

Each term in your search must occur in at least one of the searched fields. For example, a login item with the name Email MyCompany Work and the username alice@example.com would be returned by queries such as email work, Work MyCompany, or MyCompany alice.

In the web app, browser extension, and desktop app, you can run more advanced Lunr searches by prefixing your query with the "greater than" (>) character. Lunr search covers additional fields and supports advanced query syntax like term presence, fuzzy matching, and wildcards.

Lunr search will search the following fields for every vault item:

• shortid: First eight characters of the item's ID.

• organizationid: ID of the item's organization (if it belongs to one).

• name: Item's designated name.

• subtitle: Depending on item type; login username, card brand or last four digits of the number, or identity name.

• notes: Item's notes. Only full-word matches will be listed unless you use wildcards.

• fields: Name or value. Only Text type field values are included.

• attachments: Name of the attached file.

• login.username: Login item's username.

• login.uris: Login item's URI hostname value.

You can search for data in specific fields by starting a search query with the "greater than" (>) character and indicating a field as previously listed in the following format:

• >login.username:jsmith will search for login items with jsmith specified as the username.

• >+name:Turbo +name:Tax will search for any vault items with the words Turbo and Tax included in the name, however would also return an item with a name that includes additional words, like Turbo Fast Tax Service.

• >+name:Turbo +name:Tax -name:Fast will filter the results of the above example to exclude any item that also includes the term Fast in its name, like Turbo Fast Tax Service.

If no field indicator is present, all indexed fields will be searched.

When searching specific fields, you can apply the asterisk (*) as a wildcard character for specified search values, for example:

• >organizationid:* will search for all vault items that belong to an organization.

• >-organizationid:* will search for all vault items that do not belong to an organization.

• >login.username:*@gmail.com will search for any login item username that ends in @gmail.com.

• >wild*: Will search for all vault items that contain the word wild and vault items with words that contain wild, for example wildcard .