Add search operators such as "before:YYYY-MM-DD" and "after:YYYY-MM-DD"

pineapplemachine

The date picker to filter searches by time involves a bit of clicking around, and given how often I want to narrow things down by date, it just feels clunky and a bit annoying. I was surprised that there didn't seem to be any type'able search operators for this, which would be very significantly more convenient. Including making it easier to copy the same filters to other searches, by just copying and pasting the operator text.

For users like me who use time filters fairly often, this would make searching significantly more convenient.

z64

Generally speaking, this should already work. In fact, is how it works under the hood for many of our upstreams: When you use the filters, we translate those filters into operators injected into your original query.

We do have an ongoing project that consists of an overhaul of our search pipeline. In this new pipeline, there is a bit more robustness around the handling of these operators and the filtering of results after we get them. So there may be cases in the current production web search where the handling is not as consistent or as robust as it could be that should be resolved once this new backend is completely public.

leftium

pineapplemachine I was surprised that there didn't seem to be any type'able search operators for this, which would be very significantly more convenient. Including making it easier to copy the same filters to other searches, by just copying and pasting the operator text.

Until Kagi releases the new search pipeline, here are a few ways to to make it easier to specify before/after dates:

Use existing Kagi bangs for relative dates

!24, !week, !month, !year years 2024

Create a Kagi Custom Bang

Sample usage query: !range 2024-01-01 2024-12-31 climate change

URL template:

https://kagi.com/search?q=$3&from_date=$1&to_date=$2

REGEX:

((?:19|20)\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{2})\s+((?:19|20)\d{2}-\d{2}-\d{2})\s+(.+)

Use Kagi's advanced search form:

leftium

pineapplemachine

My sidebar Custom CSS can save a few clicks for some options. I opted to hide the date inputs, but you could modify it so they are always visible (see my previous implementation):

z64

@leftium Please curb the self-promotion on the forum - thank you.