Gallery Search Engine

This is an article about detailed use of the search engine via the browser's address bar. For parent articles, please see E-Hentai Gallery System, Favorites and Gallery Searching.

Using PHP GET parameters

Basic guidelines

• ? (question mark): Append this after a .php file (index.php is omitted; in this case append directly after the slash) to start declaring arguments, parameters and their respective values.
• & (ampersand): Must be preceded by ? at the beginning of the declaration. Append this to declare additional arguments/parameters. You must add an ampersand for each new argument or parameter.
• = (equals): Sets a GET argument/parameter's value if applicable. If omitted, the default value is used.

If arguments are omitted, their default value is used/they are ignored. Some arguments have prerequisites to actually mean something (f_srdd, for example, is useless without f_sr=on, as it requires f_sr to activate a search by rating).

Querying

The following parameters are crucial for querying.

• f_apply: The search engine action to apply. Accepted values (strings) are "Apply Filter" (galleries) and "Search Favorites" (favorites).
• f_search: The search query. Must be URI-compatible.

• advsearch: Default value is 1. Toggles advanced searching and visibility of the advanced options panel. 0=disabled, 1=enabled.
• page: Default value is 0. The zero-indexed page to jump to.

Categories

• f_cats: Filters out categories you don't want to see using binary flags. Add them up to achieve the desired result. Cannot be higher than 1022 (hides everything but Misc); 1023 is the same as 0.

Flag values:

1=Hide misc

2=Hide doujinshi

4=Hide manga

8=Hide artistcg

16=Hide gamecg

32=Hide imageset

64=Hide cosplay

128=Hide asianporn

256=Hide nonh

512=Hide western

Favorites

• favcat: Ignored by default (shows all favorites). Accepted values are 0 to 9. If provided, shows only the specified favorite category.

File searching

• f_shash: Ignored by default. The SHA-1 file hash to search for.
• fs_from: Ignored by default. The filename of the file that will be used to compare against. You must provide a file for this to work.
• fs_similar: Default is 1. Toggles similarity search. 0=disabled, 1=enabled.
• fs_covers: Default is 1. Toggles cover-only search. 0=any file, 1=cover only.
• fs_exp: Default is 1. Toggles expunged gallery file searching. 0=disabled, 1=enabled.

Filters

A valid f_search argument is required for all filters.

• f_sname: Enabled by default. Accepted value is "on". Searches for the f_search query in gallery names (titles).
• f_stags: Enabled by default. Accepted value is "on". Searches for the f_search query in gallery tags. Is restricted by f_sdt1 or f_sdt2 if provided. If neither is provided, searches for searchable tags.
• f_sdt1: Ignored by default. Accepted value is "on". Also searches for low-power tags. Requires f_stags to be applicable. Is implied when using f_sdt2 instead.
• f_sdt2: Ignored by default. Accepted value is "on". Also searches for downvoted tags. Requires f_stags to be applicable and includes low-power tags as well.
• f_sdesc: Enabled by default. Accepted value is "on". Searches for the f_search query in the gallery's description (uploader comment).
• f_storr: Disabled by default. Accepted value is "on". Searches for the f_search query in torrent filenames.
• f_sto: Disabled by default. Accepted value is "on". If set, only returns galleries with torrents.
• f_sh: Disabled by default. Accepted value is "on". Shows expunged galleries.

• f_sr: Ignored by default. Accepted value is "on". Must be set to "on" to enable search by rating. Required by f_srdd.
• f_srdd: Default value is 2. Accepted values are 2 to 5. Minimum gallery rating for results in stars; must be an integer. Ignored if f_sr is not set.

• f_spf: Ignored by default (assumed to be any as in 1). Accepted values are 1-2000. Sets the minimum amount of pages required for a gallery to be shown with this query.
• f_spt: Ignored by default (assumed to be any as in 2000). Accepted values are 1-2000. Sets the maximum amount of pages required for a gallery to be shown with this query.

• f_sfl: Disabled by default. Accepted value is "on". If set, ignores the user's language exclusion settings for this query.
• f_sfu: Disabled by default. Accepted value is "on". If set, ignores the user's uploader exclusion settings for this query.
• f_sft: Disabled by default. Accepted value is "on". If set, ignores the user's My Tags exclusion settings for this query.