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This page lists every metatag available for tagging and searching, as well as additional information about syntax. For basic information about what tags are and how to use them, see the tag help page.
These metatags and search syntaxes are used to search for posts.
↑ Basics
cat dog
Search for posts that are tagged with both cat and dog. Tags are separated by spaces. You can only have up to 40 tags1 in a single search.
red_panda african_wild_dog
Words within each tag are separated by underscores.
~cat ~dog
Search for posts that are tagged either cat or dog (or both). May not work well when combined with other syntaxes2.
-chicken
Search for posts that don't have the chicken tag.
fox -chicken
Search for posts that are tagged with fox and are not tagged with chicken.
african_*
Search for posts with any tag that starts with african_, such as african_wild_dog or african_golden_cat. May not work well when combined with other syntaxes, and may give incomplete results2. Do not rely on wildcards being perfect.
Limit one wildcard per search.
-african_*
Search for posts with no tags that start with african_, such as african_wild_dog or african_golden_cat.
There are no limits for how many negated wildcards can be used in a search.
( ~cat ~tiger ~leopard ) ( ~dog ~wolf )
Search for posts that are tagged with one (or more) of cat, tiger, or leopard, and one (or more) of dog or wolf.
ⓘ Important
The opening parenthesis must be followed by a space, and the closing parenthesis must follow a space; this requirement prevents them from being mistaken for a tag that includes a parenthesis (like many character tags do).
The Power of Implications
Many tags are implied by other tags, and in cases like this example, searching for the implied tag might be better than trying to list everything that tag implies. For example, cat is aliased to domestic cat, and domestic cat, tiger and leopard are all of Felidae, the cat family, and thus all imply felid, while dog (aliased to domestic dog) & wolf both imply Canid (the dog family). When trying to find posts with any kind of feline and any kind of canine, try searching for felid canid instead.
You can find a tag's aliases & implications listed at the bottom of the tag's wiki page, you can search for aliases & implications directly, and you can use our Tag MetaSearch to search for tags, aliases, & implications at the same time.
Implication Chains
Some tags have implications that imply other tags, creating a "chain" of implications. For example, hyper_breasts implies huge_breasts, which implies big_breasts, which implies breasts. Because of this, any post tagged with:
- hyper_breasts will also automatically have huge_breasts, big_breasts, & breasts
- huge_breasts will also automatically have big_breasts & breasts
- big_breasts will also automatically have breasts
This is useful for people searching for posts with one of the implied tags who also wants to see posts with any tag beyond that point in the chain, but might not always be what you want.
If you would like to search for posts which have one of the tags further down the chain (e.g. breasts) without including results for the tags that directly or indirectly imply it (e.g. huge_breasts), you can search for posts without that implying tag, which also removes posts with tags that imply that removed tag (e.g. hyper_breasts). For example, breasts -huge_breasts will include posts tagged with breasts (including posts with the implying tag big_breasts), but excluding posts with huge_breasts (which will also remove all posts with tagged with hyper_breasts from the results).
Advanced Group Syntax
- The aforementioned - & ~ prefixes can be used on groups themselves. For example, ~( felid -leopard ) ~( leopard tiger ) will find posts with felids, but won't allow any posts with a leopard unless there's also a tiger.
- Groups can also be nested within one another. For example, ( ~( felid -leopard ) ~( leopard tiger ) ) dog will return posts with either non-leopard felids or with both a leopard & a tiger, and then keep only posts that also have a dog.
- You can only nest groups 10 levels deep.
Most searches automatically remove deleted posts from results; see here for more info.
[[e621:cheatsheet#Basics]]
Metatags
In addition to using tags, you can also search based on the post's metadata using the appropriate metatag3. The remainder of this guide is focused on the available metatags you can use.4
⚠ Warning
Do not assume using these on the blacklist will work; many of these are not available on the blacklist, & some that are behave differently than when used while searching. Please see here for the list of blacklist metatags & their differences.
↑ Sorting
By default, posts are ordered from highest ID to lowest ID (newest posts first). This is the same as order:id.
Adding the "limit:" metatag will increase or decrease the number of posts per page, otherwise following the normal rules for your current sorting method.
- votedup:me order:random limit:1 will return a single post that you have upvoted, with no pagination.
- order:id_asc limit:1 will display the single oldest post, with the next pages containing the second oldest, the third oldest, etc.
- limit:10 will display the 10 newest posts, with the next pages containing posts 11 through 20, 21 through 30, etc.
| Search | What it does | Search | What it does |
|---|---|---|---|
| order:id | Oldest to newest | order:id_desc | Newest to oldest |
| order:score | Highest score first | order:score_asc | Lowest score first |
| order:favcount | Most favorites first | order:favcount_asc | Least favorites first |
| order:comment_count | Most comments first | order:comment_count_asc | Least comments first |
| order:comment_bumped | Posts with the newest bumped comments | order:comment_bumped_asc | Posts that have not had bumped comments for the longest time |
| order:mpixels | Largest resolution first | order:mpixels_asc | Smallest resolution first |
| order:filesize | Largest file size first | order:filesize_asc | Smallest file size first |
| order:landscape | Wide and short to tall and thin | order:portrait | Tall and thin to wide and short |
| order:change | Sorts by last update sequence, highest to lowest | order:change_asc | Sorts by last update sequence, lowest to highest |
| order:duration | Video duration longest to shortest | order:duration_asc | Video duration shortest to longest |
| order:random | Orders posts randomly * | order:hot | The order used by the 'Hot' page |
| order:comment | Posts with the newest comments | order:comment_asc | Posts that have not been commented on for the longest time |
| order:created | Newest post date first | order:created_asc | Oldest post date first |
| order:updated | Most recently updated post first | order:updated_asc | Least recently updated post first |
| order:note | Most recent note first | order:note_asc | No note/oldest note first |
| order:tagcount | Most tags first | order:tagcount_asc | Least tags first |
| order:general_tags | Most general tags first | order:general_tags_asc | Least general tags first |
| order:artist_tags | Most artist tags first | order:artist_tags_asc | Least artist tags first |
| order:contributor_tags | Most contributor tags first | order:contributor_tags_asc | Least contributor tags first |
| order:copyright_tags | Most copyright tags first | order:copyright_tags_asc | Least copyright tags first |
| order:character_tags | Most character tags first | order:character_tags_asc | Least character tags first |
| order:species_tags | Most species tags first | order:species_tags_asc | Least species tags first |
| order:invalid_tags | Most invalid tags first | order:invalid_tags_asc | Least invalid tags first |
| order:meta_tags | Most tags first | order:meta_tags_asc | Least tags first |
| order:lore_tags | Most lore tags first | order:lore_tags_asc | Least lore tags first |
| order:md5 | Highest MD5 checksum to lowest | order:md5_asc | Lowest MD5 checksum to highest |
* If you need deterministic results, you can use randseed:123 instead of (or alongside) order:random; ing the same seed will return the same set of random posts. This s pagination, and the following pages will contain no duplicates. Seeds must be numbers.5
Almost all orders can be reversed by adding a - before the metatag. For example, -order:score is equivalent to order:score_asc, and -order:score_asc is equivalent to order:score. If the order category isn't capable of being reversed, it will be equivalent to the non-negated version.
Full List (including shorthand variants)
Many of these have alternative forms that are removed from the autocomplete to minimize bloat. Here are all valid order metatags, with each item in a cell being equivalent to every other item in that cell.
Category Main Ordering Reversed Ordering Creation Date order:created_at, order:created_at_desc, -order:created_at_asc, order:created, order:created_desc, -order:created_asc -order:created_at, -order:created_at_desc, order:created_at_asc, -order:created, -order:created_desc, order:created_asc Update Date order:updated_at, order:updated_at_desc, -order:updated_at_asc, order:updated, order:updated_desc, -order:updated_asc -order:updated_at, -order:updated_at_desc, order:updated_at_asc, -order:updated, -order:updated_desc, order:updated_asc Comment order:comm, order:comm_desc, -order:comm_asc, order:comment, order:comment_desc, -order:comment_asc -order:comm, -order:comm_desc, order:comm_asc, -order:comment, -order:comment_desc, order:comment_asc Comment Bumped order:comm_bumped, order:comm_bumped_desc, -order:comm_bumped_asc, order:comment_bumped, order:comment_bumped_desc, -order:comment_bumped_asc -order:comm_bumped, -order:comm_bumped_desc, order:comm_bumped_asc, -order:comment_bumped, -order:comment_bumped_desc, order:comment_bumped_asc Comment Count order:comm_count, order:comm_count_desc, -order:comm_count_asc, order:comment_count, order:comment_count_desc, -order:comment_count_asc -order:comm_count, -order:comm_count_desc, order:comm_count_asc, -order:comment_count, -order:comment_count_desc, order:comment_count_asc Filesize order:size, order:size_desc, -order:size_asc, order:filesize, order:filesize_desc, -order:filesize_asc -order:size, -order:size_desc, order:size_asc, -order:filesize, -order:filesize_desc, order:filesize_asc Aspect Ratio order:ratio, order:ratio_desc, -order:ratio_asc, order:aspect_ratio, order:aspect_ratio_desc, -order:aspect_ratio_asc, -order:portrait, order:landscape -order:ratio, -order:ratio_desc, order:ratio_asc, -order:aspect_ratio, -order:aspect_ratio_desc, order:aspect_ratio_asc, order:portrait, -order:landscape Resolution order:mpixels, order:mpixels_desc, -order:mpixels_asc -order:mpixels, -order:mpixels_desc, order:mpixels_asc General Tags order:general_tags, order:general_tags_desc, -order:general_tags_asc, order:gentags, order:gentags_desc, -order:gentags_asc -order:general_tags, -order:general_tags_desc, order:general_tags_asc, -order:gentags, -order:gentags_desc, order:gentags_asc Artist Tags order:artist_tags, order:artist_tags_desc, -order:artist_tags_asc, order:arttags, order:arttags_desc, -order:arttags_asc -order:artist_tags, -order:artist_tags_desc, order:artist_tags_asc, -order:arttags, -order:arttags_desc, order:arttags_asc Contributor Tags order:contributor_tags, order:contributor_tags_desc, -order:contributor_tags_asc, order:conttags, order:conttags_desc, -order:conttags_asc -order:contributor_tags, -order:contributor_tags_desc, order:contributor_tags_asc, -order:conttags, -order:conttags_desc, order:conttags_asc Copyright Tags order:copyright_tags, order:copyright_tags_desc, -order:copyright_tags_asc, order:copytags, order:copytags_desc, -order:copytags_asc -order:copyright_tags, -order:copyright_tags_desc, order:copyright_tags_asc, -order:copytags, -order:copytags_desc, order:copytags_asc Character Tags order:character_tags, order:character_tags_desc, -order:character_tags_asc, order:chartags, order:chartags_desc, -order:chartags_asc -order:character_tags, -order:character_tags_desc, order:character_tags_asc, -order:chartags, -order:chartags_desc, order:chartags_asc Species Tags order:species_tags, order:species_tags_desc, -order:species_tags_asc, order:spectags, order:spectags_desc, -order:spectags_asc -order:species_tags, -order:species_tags_desc, order:species_tags_asc, -order:spectags, -order:spectags_desc, order:spectags_asc Invalid Tags order:invalid_tags, order:invalid_tags_desc, -order:invalid_tags_asc, order:invtags, order:invtags_desc, -order:invtags_asc -order:invalid_tags, -order:invalid_tags_desc, order:invalid_tags_asc, -order:invtags, -order:invtags_desc, order:invtags_asc Tags order:meta_tags, order:meta_tags_desc, -order:meta_tags_asc, order:metatags, order:metatags_desc, -order:metatags_asc -order:meta_tags, -order:meta_tags_desc, order:meta_tags_asc, -order:metatags, -order:metatags_desc, order:metatags_asc Lore Tags order:lore_tags, order:lore_tags_desc, -order:lore_tags_asc, order:lortags, order:lortags_desc, -order:lortags_asc -order:lore_tags, -order:lore_tags_desc, order:lore_tags_asc, -order:lortags, -order:lortags_desc, order:lortags_asc Id order:id, -order:id_desc, order:id_asc -order:id, order:id_desc, -order:id_asc Score order:score, order:score_desc, -order:score_asc -order:score, -order:score_desc, order:score_asc MD5 order:md5, order:md5_desc, -order:md5_asc -order:md5, -order:md5_desc, order:md5_asc Favorite Count order:favcount, order:favcount_desc, -order:favcount_asc -order:favcount, -order:favcount_desc, order:favcount_asc Note order:note, order:note_desc, -order:note_asc -order:note, -order:note_desc, order:note_asc Tag Count order:tagcount, order:tagcount_desc, -order:tagcount_asc -order:tagcount, -order:tagcount_desc, order:tagcount_asc Change Seq order:change, order:change_desc, -order:change_asc -order:change, -order:change_desc, order:change_asc Duration order:duration, order:duration_desc, -order:duration_asc -order:duration, -order:duration_desc, order:duration_asc Random order:random, -order:random No Reversed Ordering ed Hot order:hot, -order:hot No Reversed Ordering ed [[e621:cheatsheet#Sorting]]
↑ -Based Metatags
These metatags are used to search for posts based on -related information.
The basic form is metatag:name (e.g., favoritedby:Bob). You can also search for these by the 's id by adding an exclamation point before the id. For example, :!17633 searches for posts ed by a with the ID # 17633, rather than the name "17633". When logged in, you can use metatag:me (e.g. favoritedby:me) as a shorthand for your name.
Search What it does _id:17633* Posts ed by a with the ID # 17633, rather than the name "17633" :Bob Posts ed by Bob fav:Bob/favoritedby:Bob. Posts favorited by Bob; will not work for anyone but Bob if they have their favorites hidden voted:anything** Posts you voted on. Only works while logged in. votedup:anything/upvote:anything** Posts you upvoted. Only works while logged in. voteddown:anything/downvote:anything** Posts you downvoted. Only works while logged in. approver:Bob Posts approved by Bob deletedby:Bob Posts deleted by Bob commenter:Bob/comm:Bob Posts commented on by Bob noter:Bob Posts with notes written by Bob noteupdater:Bob Posts with notes updated by Bob * This metatag cannot use the metatag:!_id syntax, nor the metatag:me syntax.
** anything can be replaced with any text; it will only return results for the logged-in . Only staff can search another 's votes.[[e621:cheatsheet#Metatags]]
↑ Post-Based Metatags
These metatags are used to search for posts based on post-related information.
Counts
Tag counts What it does ed syntax id:100 Post with an ID of 100 range score:100 Posts with a score of 100 range favcount:100 Posts with exactly 100 favorites range comment_count:100 Posts with exactly 100 comments range tagcount:2 Posts with exactly 2 tags range gentags:2 Posts with exactly 2 general tags range arttags:2 Posts with exactly 2 artist tags range conttags:2 Posts with exactly 2 contributor tags range copytags:2 Posts with exactly 2 copyright tags range chartags:2 Posts with exactly 2 character tags range spectags:2 Posts with exactly 2 species tags range invtags:2 Posts with exactly 2 invalid tags range metatags:2 Posts with exactly 2 tags range lortags:2 Posts with exactly 2 lore tags range [[e621:cheatsheet#Counts]]
Rating
Rating Shorthand What it does rating:safe rating:s Posts rated safe rating:questionable rating:q Posts rated questionable rating:explicit rating:e Posts rated explicit [[e621:cheatsheet#Rating]]
File Types
File type What it does type:jpg Posts that are JPG, a type of image type:png Posts that are PNG, a type of image (may be animated; see animated_png) type:gif Posts that are GIF, a type of image (frequently animated) type:webp Posts that are WebP, a type of image (may be animated) type:mp4 Posts that are MP4, a type of video type:swf Posts that are Flash, a legacy format used for animation & interactivity type:webm Posts that are WebM, a type of video [[e621:cheatsheet#FileTypes]]
Image Size
Image Size What it does ed syntax width:100 Posts with a width of 100 pixels range height:100 Posts with a length of 100 pixels range mpixels:1 Posts that are 1 megapixel (a 1000x1000 image equals 1 megapixel) range ratio:4:3 Search for posts with a ratio of 4:3. This also s decimal values (e.g. ratio:1.33). All ratios are rounded to two digits, therefore 1.33 will return posts with a ratio of 4:3. range filesize:200KB Posts with a file size of 200 kilobytes. File sizes within ±5% of the value are included. range filesize:2MB Posts with a file size of 2 megabytes. File sizes within ±5% of the value are included. range [[e621:cheatsheet#ImageSize]]
Post Status
Post status What it does status:pending Posts that are waiting to be approved or deleted status:active* Posts that have been approved status:deleted* Posts that have been deleted status:flagged Posts that are flagged for deletion status:modqueue Posts that are pending or flagged status:any*/status:all* All active or deleted posts * Disables implicit filtering of deleted posts from results. Note that adding -status:deleted to a search outside of a group will disable implicit filtering, but still explicitly remove all deleted posts from the results. Adding a deletedby metatag or delreason metatag with any value will also disable this.
Advanced Details
- This metatag does not the "~" prefix.
- Only 1 status metatag may be used in a search. Using groups, you may use 1 status metatag outside of all groups & 1 status metatag per each group, with each nested group also being able to use 1 additional status metatag.
- If that's confusing, it might help to think of each group being processed independently of all other groups (including the overall search as an implicit root group); there's only space to store 1 status metatag per group, but each group has its own space for their own single status metatag.
[[e621:cheatsheet#Status]]
Dates
Single day What it does ed syntax date:2012-04-27 date:april/27/2012 Search for posts ed on a specific date; assumes year-month-day format by default. range date:today date:yesterday Same as above, but specific to today and yesterday range
Simple time period What it does ed syntax date:day Posts from the last day range, ago, yester date:week Posts from the last 7 days range, ago, yester date:month Posts from the last 30 days range, ago, yester date:year Posts from the last 365 days range, ago, yester date:decade Posts from the last decade range* * Only x..decade is ed (e.g., date:decade..year)
Ago syntax What it does ed syntax date:5_days_ago Posts from within the last 5 days range** date:5_weeks_ago Posts from within the last 5 weeks range**, yester date:5_months_ago Posts from within the last 5 months range**, yester date:5_years_ago Posts from within the last 5 years range**, yester ** If used as the first of a range, will start at the first day of that range. For example, date:year..month will range from 30 days ago to 1 year ago.
Yester syntax What it does ed syntax date:yesterweek Posts from last week ago date:yestermonth Posts from last month ago date:yesteryear Posts from last year ago date:5_yesteryears_ago Posts from 5 years ago [[e621:cheatsheet#Dates]]
Text Searching
Text searching What it does source:*example.com Posts with a source that contains example.com, prefix matched, use wildcards as needed source:none Posts without a source description:whatever * Posts with a description that contains the text whatever. note:whatever * Posts with a note that contains the text whatever delreason:*whatever * Deleted posts that contain a reason with the text whatever, prefix matched, use wildcards as needed * These can search for text with spaces in it by wrapping the text in " (e.g. description:"hello there" will search for posts with a description that contains the text hello there).4
[[e621:cheatsheet#TextSearching]]
Parents and Children
Parents and Children Opposite What it does ischild:true/hasparent:true ischild:false/hasparent:false Posts that are(n't) a child isparent:true/haschild:true/haschildren:true isparent:false/haschild:false/haschildren:false Posts that are(n't) a parent parent:1234 Posts with a parent of 1234 parent:none parent:any Posts with no(/any) parent; same as ischild:false(/ischild:true) child:none child:any Posts with no(/any) child; same as isparent:false(/isparent:true) [[e621:cheatsheet#ParentsAndChildren]]
Locks
Posts can be put in a state where certain properties cannot be changed; this prevents further incorrect actions, & is only done after numerous incorrect changes have been made to the post. For example, s missing a hard-to-spot genital & rating the post Safe instead of Explicit might get the rating locked, s thinking photo-realistic posts are genuine photos & flagging for violating the ing Guidelines might get the status locked, & s incorrectly adding notes for an intentional "typo" might get the notes locked.
Metatag What it does ratinglocked:true/locked:rating ratinglocked:false/-locked:rating ~locked:rating Posts with rating (un)locked notelocked:true/locked:note/locked:notes notelocked:false/-locked:note/-locked:notes ~locked:note Posts with notes (un)locked statuslocked:true/locked:status statuslocked:false/-locked:status ~locked:status Posts with status (un)locked [[e621:cheatsheet#Locks]]
Other
Metatag What it does hassource:true hassource:false Posts with or without a source hasdescription:true hasdescription:false Posts with or without a description inpool:true inpool:false Posts that are or aren't in a pool pending_replacements:true pending_replacements:false Posts that have or don't have any pending replacements artverified:true artverified:false Posts that were or were not ed by artists who are verified pool:4 pool:fox_and_the_grapes Posts in the pool "Fox and the Grapes" set:17 set:cute_rabbits Posts in the set with the short name "cute_rabbits" md5:02dd0... Post with the given MD5 hash. MD5 hashes will never be shared by more than one image. duration:>120 Videos with a duration of at least 120 seconds [[e621:cheatsheet#Other]]
↑ Range Syntax
Some of the prior metatags searching for a range of values:
Search Equivalent Form What it does id:100 Post with an ID of exactly 100 id:100,121,144,...* Post with an ID of either 100, 121, 144, ... date:year..month Posts ed between 30 days ago and 1 year ago filesize:200KB..300KB Posts with a file size between 200 kilobytes and 300 kilobytes score:25..50 Posts with a score between 25 and 50 score:>=100 score:100.. Posts with a score of 100 or greater (100+) score:>100 -score:<=100 Posts with a score greater than 100 (101+) favcount:<=100 favcount:..100 Posts with 100 or less favorites (0-100) favcount:<100 -favcount:>=100 Posts with less than 100 favorites (0-99) * A maximum of 320 values can be added with this syntax.
[[e621:cheatsheet#RangeSyntax]]
^1: Metatags count towards this limit.
^2: Specifically, the wildcard & ~tag syntaxes do not combine well. Behind the scenes, tag wildcards (but not metatag wildcards) are implemented by adding the 40 most popular matching tags to the same internal list as tags prefixed with ~. E.g. ~eagle ~domestic_dog *_cat is the same as ~eagle ~domestic_dog ~domestic_cat ~calico_cat ~tabby_cat... & not ~eagle ~domestic_dog ( ~domestic_cat ~calico_cat ~tabby_cat... ) as you might have assumed. Additionally, using both of these together (e.g. ~*_cat ~tiger) simply adds the tag to the list directly without performing the wildcard resolution (e.g. posts tagged with either *_cat or ~tiger), effectively discarding that item from the search, as no tag can include a *. These quirks do not apply to negated wildcards.
^3: To avoid confusion, these metatags (1 word; i.e. dynamic psuedo-tags operating on the post's metadata) are not to be confused with tags (2 words; i.e. normal tags that describe meta information about the post itself). All references to "metatags" are referring to the former (1 word), with limited exceptions in the Sorting & Counts sections.
^4: All metatags can accept values wrapped in double quotation marks (e.g. status:"deleted"). Since the only purpose of this is to accept a value with spaces, this will only be explicitly shown for the few tags that can actually benefit from inputting a value with spaces.
^5: A non-number value will be converted to the value of the first characters that are numbers, or 0 if it doesn't start with numbers. E.g. randseed:21guns id:2279590..2279599 is the same as randseed:21 id:2279590..2279599 & randseed:21hundred_hours id:2279590..2279599, and randseed:invalid_value id:2279590..2279599 is the same as randseed:0 id:2279590..2279599 & randseed:a_completely_different_wrong_value id:2279590..2279599. Additionally, as demonstrated here, simply using randseed: will use order:random by default.