@justin , can you give us some details about how search works in Trakt? I ask because search may be the only component of Trakt that I am dissatisfied with, especially as a subscriber, but I’m not sure if there are technical reasons why it works the way it does. Are you reliant on the search from th…

[image] LizardSpock: Maybe make improved search a VIP feature? Locking competent search results behind a paywall would be awful and mean.

The search feature on the Android app is so much better than the web and doesn’t require me to put exact titles. I used the Android app whenever I need to search for something.

We just released a major update to Trakt search that can handle typos and get much more accurate search results. The Trakt website, official apps, and all 3rd party apps that use the Trakt search API will have way better results now. Let us know if it works better for you!

This is pertaining to the website. I don’t want to risk the chance of losing my data in a Beta. While I no longer get the “No Results Found” message, it’s sometimes extremely difficult to find what I’m looking for with search. I may get tens of thousands of results but what I want is nowhere on the…

It’s the first result for me when searching for Nikki Glaser: good clean filth or Nikki Glaser good clean filth or good clean filth Search results for Nikki Glaser: good clean filth Search results for movies and TV shows. Perhaps you have some filters enable…

Justin, Thanx for all the awesome work you put into this. I still agree with LizardSpock that the search needs to be fuzzy. Still using the same example, if someone were to verbally recommend this to you, they would not say the word “colon” So you would have no idea that you actually have to type th…

I’m pretty sure when I searched for Dutch movies before, they’d show up, now I tried to look up a Dutch movie, and I got nothing. Search results for de terugreis Search results for movies and TV shows. I thought it wasn’t added to TMDb yet, but apparently t…

[image] jerseyjoe: the search needs to be fuzzy The search is fuzzy, that is one of the main updates to the search engine. [image] jerseyjoe: Still using the same example, if someone were to verbally recommend this to you, they would not say the word “colon” So you would have no idea tha…

Ah doesn’t it import the original title though?

Is it possible to improve Trakt search?

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justin (Justin) July 3, 2023, 3:53pm 3

We have improved search on our long term roadmap. It would be a standard feature upgrade.

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Is it possible to improve Trakt search?

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