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Can't find what you're looking for? It may be on the website so try using our search engine. The search engine is in development at the moment so it may not always work properly

Search Help

To find information about a topic, simply type in a few keywords. The more detailed your query, the more relevant your results.

The NPM search engine also comes with some advanced capabilities to help you find exactly what you're looking for. These capabilities are best shown with a few examples:

Translated: require NPM, require cool

Finds "cool NPM", "NPM are cool".

Translated: forbid tomi, require steven

Finds "Steven Russell" and "Steven and Scott".

Translated: prefer stephen, require steven

Finds "steven and stephen" and "steven and scott".
Documents with both terms appear higher in the list.

Translated: require the phrase "No Post Mortem Rulz"

Finds "No Post Mortem Rulz".

Translated: require tomi (case insensitive), require words starting with "ste"

Finds "tomi and stephen", "tomi and steven", "steven and tomi".
The asterisk is a wildcard representing any four or fewer characters.

Translated: require Venus (case sensitive), require pictures, forbid planet, prefer images

First lists "pictures and images of Venus", then "Venus pictures".
Does not list lowercase "venus picture", nor forbidden "picture of planet Venus".

Translated: ignores common words like where, is, and the - requires words containing "frog"

Finds "frog", "frogleg", and "bullfrog".
To suppress the ignore feature, use quotes, as in "Where is the *frog*?".

Note on case sensitivity - only words or phrases containing an upper case character will be treated as case sensitive. A search on "new zealand" will match "New Zealand", "NEW ZEALAND", and "NeW ZealanD", while the term "NEW ZEALAND" matches only its uppercase version.

The asterisk is a powerful search tool, but has some limitations. It cannot span words - that is, the query "powerfu*earch" would not match the first sentence of this paragraph - and it can represent at most four letters or numbers. To avoid overly broad searches, the asterisk can only be used in words or phrases which have at least three alpha-numeric characters. A search for "th*" would be ignored.