Fuzzy Search

[Luke 42077]

On 11/11/2024 at 4:20 AM, ylatsj said:

Example: "Mission: Impossible"

In this example the following queries will return a positive match

• Possible
• Impossible
• Mission
• Mission: Impossible

 

The fact is not like what it is described!!!!

impossible, possible won't return any result.

only miss,mission will.

 

 

This case is resolved in 4.9.1.26.  it should help a lot of other cases.

[Luke 42077]

On 12/29/2024 at 10:44 AM, mammt said:

 

Some Examples:

• Similarly, if i search for "Storia d inverno" or "Storia inverno" it shows no result, but "Storia d'inverno" it shows the movie correctly.

This case is resolved in 4.9.1.26. Thanks.

[adrianwi 279]

On 06/09/2025 at 05:29, Luke said:

This case is resolved in 4.9.1.26.  it should help a lot of other cases.

"possible" doesn't find any of the Mission Impossible films for me on 4.9.1.26

[Luke 42077]

36 minutes ago, adrianwi said:

"possible" doesn't find any of the Mission Impossible films for me on 4.9.1.26

That's not the fix. This previous issue was that searching for impossible, possible would not return any results. Now it does.

[mammt 5]

On 06/09/2025 at 06:29, Luke said:

This case is resolved in 4.9.1.26.  it should help a lot of other cases.

Hello, i have updated to the new Emby Beta version, however the issue still remains, for example

 

When searching for "Spiderman" i wont get any results but if i search for "Spider-Man" i will

[Luke 42077]

3 hours ago, mammt said:

Hello, i have updated to the new Emby Beta version, however the issue still remains, for example

 

When searching for "Spiderman" i wont get any results but if i search for "Spider-Man" i will

Hi, that particular example is still an open issue however many other cases have been solved.

[767300909 1]

On 7/23/2018 at 9:30 PM, Luke said:

Hi yes, it's something we're interested in for the future. thanks.

Hi, When can Chinese fuzzy search be supported, I've been waiting for 2 years now, thanks.

Can this be referenced： https://github.com/wangfenjin/simple

[IAmHugh 63]

3 hours ago, 767300909 said:

Hi, When can Chinese fuzzy search be supported, I've been waiting for 2 years now, thanks.

Can this be referenced： https://github.com/wangfenjin/simple

And a lot of us have been waiting for the regular search to be fixed since 2018. 

[Luke 42077]

10 hours ago, 767300909 said:

Hi, When can Chinese fuzzy search be supported, I've been waiting for 2 years now, thanks.

Can this be referenced： https://github.com/wangfenjin/simple

Hi there, since this is your first post here, can you please provide an example of what you'd like to do? Thanks.

[767300909 1]

On 10/12/2025 at 2:49 AM, Luke said:

Hi there, since this is your first post here, can you please provide an example of what you'd like to do? Thanks.

Thank you for your reply! The function I want:
For example, the movie title: Transformers 4  
When we enter "King Kong" when searching, Transformers 1, Transformers 2, Transformers 3, Arhat King Kong, King Kong: Skull Island, King Kong, etc. will be listed for selection.
At present, if you enter "King Kong", only movies with the full name King Kong will be displayed, and nothing else will be displayed.

thanks.

[767300909 1]

On 10/12/2025 at 2:49 AM, Luke said:

Hi there, since this is your first post here, can you please provide an example of what you'd like to do? Thanks.

The above example illustrates that searching for movie names in Chinese, and fuzzy search with English and numerical segmentation is normal. thanks.

[Luke 42077]

20 hours ago, 767300909 said:

Thank you for your reply! The function I want:
For example, the movie title: Transformers 4  
When we enter "King Kong" when searching, Transformers 1, Transformers 2, Transformers 3, Arhat King Kong, King Kong: Skull Island, King Kong, etc. will be listed for selection.
At present, if you enter "King Kong", only movies with the full name King Kong will be displayed, and nothing else will be displayed.

thanks.

Right OK. It will won't match partial words yet, but with the 4.9 release it has taken a step further by being able to match either word as opposed to requiring both.

[767300909 1]

9 hours ago, Luke said:

Right OK. It will won't match partial words yet, but with the 4.9 release it has taken a step further by being able to match either word as opposed to requiring both.

Nice going! We hope that the EMBY team can solve the problem of Chinese fuzzy search in the future, thanks.

[IAmHugh 63]

1 hour ago, 767300909 said:

Nice going! We hope that the EMBY team can solve the problem of Chinese fuzzy search in the future, thanks.

The Emby team needs to fix regular search first like they should have YEARS ago.

[767300909 1]

15 hours ago, CummingCowGirl said:

The Emby team needs to fix regular search first like they should have YEARS ago.

Right OK. I don't know when this damn Chinese fuzzy search will be available. However, letters and numbers are okay.

[adminExitium 355]

@LukeJust for your reference, now that the default search queries are fast enough, you should be able to add this functionality properly with these 2 SQLite features:

• https://www.sqlite.org/fts5.html#porter_tokenizer
• https://www.sqlite.org/spellfix1.html#configurable_edit_distance

Should be relatively straightforward additions whenever you get around to it.

[adminExitium 355]

And for ideal edit distances, this may be useful reading: https://www.meilisearch.com/docs/learn/relevancy/typo_tolerance_settings#minwordsizefortypos

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one typo for query terms containing five or more characters, and up to two typos if the term is at least nine characters long

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recommend keeping the value of oneTypo between 2 and 8 characters and the value of twoTypos between 4 and 14 characters