Special Query Modifiers

All queries are executed in their unaccented and case insensitive form on the content and the title of documents. To change this behaviour, use flag:<modifier_name> to enable special query modes.

Modifier Name	Description	Example
matchinurls	Query will also match URLs and links (e.g. in entity_url which is a link extracted from the article).	flag:matchinurls
matchauthor	Query will also match author field	flag:matchauthor
matchauthordescription	Query will also match author description field	flag:matchauthordescription
matchexact	Use Raw data search as default. All keywords are considered as case-insensitive exact character string including special characters and punctuation.	flag:matchexact
matchexactcase	Use Exact raw data search as default. All keywords are considered as case-insensitive exact character string including special characters and punctuation.	flag:matchexactcase

The special modifiers can be combined: carsharing flag:matchauthor flag:matchfuzzywords searches for words like carsharing, car sharing or car-sharing in the fields title, content and author_name.

note

When matchinurls or matchauthor is set, API results will not have highlighting in snippets when one of these fields is matched.