Searching the vault

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.

Applications that use full-text search

The following Bitwarden applications provide full-text searching capabilities and are applicable to the information this article:

• Web vault
• Desktop applications
• Browser extensions

This article does not apply to the following Bitwarden applications, which provide only basic search capabilities:

• CLI
• Mobile apps

Indexed Fields

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).
• name
• subtitle - Login username, card brand + last four, and identity name.
• notes
• fields - Name and value. Only “text” type field values are included.
• attachments - File name
• login.username
• login.uris - Only the URI’s hostname value.

Wildcard Searches

The asterisk character (*) provides the ability to perform wildcard searches in your vault. Examples:

• *bitwarden
• bitwarden*
• *bitwarden*
• *bit*war*den*

Advanced Searches

Starting your search query with a greater than character (>) enables the full power of Lunr search queries.

Advanced Search Examples

• >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.