Possible to Increase Number of Search Results?

[theusedversion 36]

Is there any way to force Emby to return more than 16 movies when doing a search? Is there some file I can edit to have it return something like 50 results or something similar?
 

This has probably been asked before but I couldn't find any threads about it. I tried searching.

[rechigo 294]

In searchresults.js (Emby-Server\system\dashboard-ui\search\searchresults.js) search for "return query.Limit=16" and replace 16 with whatever you want the amount of search results to be

[theusedversion 36]

In searchresults.js (Emby-Server\system\dashboard-ui\search\searchresults.js) search for "return query.Limit=16" and replace 16 with whatever you want the amount of search results to be

Thank you so much.  This worked perfectly!

[daedalus 430]

but keep in mind, that has to be edited again after every update

[MLetham 0]

I tried doing this and it worked for the web app but not for the iOS app. Is there a hard-coded limit for iOS display, or is there an alternate work-around?

[Luke 39622]

It's something we are looking into improving. Thanks.

[EmblemJD 18]

Is this still being looked into @Luke? 50 max results with no way to increase without editing non-persistent config files is very limiting (pun intended)

On that note: Where can I even find the mentioned setting / config in the docker version of Emby Server?

I cannot find it in any of the config subfolders:

• cache
• config
• data
• logs
• metadata
• plugins
• root
• transcoding-temp

Does it need to be added in the system.xml?

Edited March 2, 2024 by EmblemJD

[EmblemJD 18]

I have now identified the file with a diff and merge version respectively. Unfortunately even when increasing the query.Limit values in both and restarting the server still only 50 results are being returned in the web view. 

• /docker/overlay2/1348b53e87fbf1ca35256dda6b4c6e9c59f848de3207d5391084883d5a734d7c/merged/system/dashboard-ui/search/searchresults.js
• /docker/overlay2/1348b53e87fbf1ca35256dda6b4c6e9c59f848de3207d5391084883d5a734d7c/diff/system/dashboard-ui/search/searchresults.js

I am getting more and more frustrated with the state of search in Emby which does not seem to improve for years now. I love this project, but having less control in an actual media library than I used to have in Windows Explorer is becoming a major pain

[adminExitium 281]

Those are the docker overlayfs-specific files. You need to edit the file directly in the container and restart only the server, not the container.

Restarting the container will lose any such changes. If you want it to be persistent, the easiest option would be to copy the file outside, modify it and then mount it, thus overriding the file included as part of the image.

[Luke 39622]

Hi, yes we'll look at improving this. Thanks for the feedback.

[wilshere13 1]

On 24/04/2020 at 08:20, rechigo said:

In searchresults.js (Emby-Server\system\dashboard-ui\search\searchresults.js) search for "return query.Limit=16" and replace 16 with whatever you want the amount of search results to be

How can I do that ? I want to be able to search for more results