Bitwarden indexes your vault using a full-text search programming library called Lunr. Lunr provides the ability to invoke high-performance search queries against your vault to quickly find what you need with great accuracy.

Applications that use full-text search

The following Bitwarden applications provide full-text searching capabilities and are applicable to the information this article:

Web vault

Desktop applications

Browser extensions

This article does not apply to the following Bitwarden applications, which provide only basic search capabilities:

CLI

Mobile apps

Indexed Fields

The following fields from items in your vault are indexed and are searchable:

shortid - First 8 characters of the item’s id.

- First 8 characters of the item’s id. organizationid - Id of the item’s organization (if it belongs to one).

- Id of the item’s organization (if it belongs to one). name

subtitle - Login username, card brand + last four, and identity name.

- Login username, card brand + last four, and identity name. notes

fields - Name and value. Only “text” type field values are included.

- Name and value. Only “text” type field values are included. attachments - File name

- File name login.username

login.uris - Only the URI’s hostname value.

Wildcard Searches

The asterisk character ( * ) provides the ability to perform wildcard searches in your vault. Examples:

*bitwarden

bitwarden*

*bitwarden*

*bit*war*den*

Note The following fields automatically include leading and trailing wildcards while performing normal search queries: name

subtitle

login.uris It is not necessary to provide wildcards if you are searching for information in these fields.

Advanced Searches

Starting your search query with a greater than character ( > ) enables the full power of Lunr search queries.

Advanced Search Examples

>bitwarden* - Search all fields for a term that starts with “bitwarden”.

- Search all fields for a term that starts with “bitwarden”. >notes:something - Search the notes field for the term “something”.

- Search the notes field for the term “something”. >login.username:jsmith - Search the username field on items of type login for the term “jsmith”.

- Search the username field on items of type login for the term “jsmith”. >+organizationid:* - Search for all items that belong to an organization.

- Search for all items that belong to an organization. >-organizationid:* - Search for all items that do not belong to an organization (items that you own).

- Search for all items that do not belong to an organization (items that you own). >+foo bar -baz - Search for items that must contain “foo”, might contain “bar” and must not contain “baz”.

Learn more about writing advanced search queries using Lunr’s searching guide.