Bitwarden indexes your vault using a full-text search programming library called Lunr. Lunr provides the ability to invoke high-performance search queries against your vault to quickly find what you need with great accuracy.
The following Bitwarden applications provide full-text searching capabilities and are applicable to the information this article:
This article does not apply to the following Bitwarden applications, which provide only basic search capabilities:
The following fields from items in your vault are indexed and are searchable:
shortid - First 8 characters of the item’s id.organizationid - Id of the item’s organization (if it belongs to one).namesubtitle - Login username, card brand + last four, and identity name.notesfields - Name and value. Only “text” type field values are included.attachments - File namelogin.usernamelogin.uris - Only the URI’s hostname value.The asterisk character (*) provides the ability to perform wildcard searches in your vault. Examples:
*bitwardenbitwarden**bitwarden**bit*war*den*The following fields automatically include leading and trailing wildcards while performing normal search queries:
namesubtitlelogin.urisIt is not necessary to provide wildcards if you are searching for information in these fields.
Starting your search query with a greater than character (>) enables the full power of Lunr search queries.
>bitwarden* - Search all fields for a term that starts with “bitwarden”.>notes:something - Search the notes field for the term “something”.>login.username:jsmith - Search the username field on items of type login for the term “jsmith”.>+organizationid:* - Search for all items that belong to an organization.>-organizationid:* - Search for all items that do not belong to an organization (items that you own).>+foo bar -baz - Search for items that must contain “foo”, might contain “bar” and must not contain “baz”.Learn more about writing advanced search queries using Lunr’s searching guide.
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