Improved URL search

We have upgraded Contentful’s search functionality, making it easier than ever to find content by URLs. Customers can now search for full URLs, partial URLs, and URL components within entries, across all regular text and rich text fields.

How does it work?

For example, given the URL: https://www.contentful.com/help/content-and-entries/content-search?some_param=some_value

You can now search for:

  • Parts of domains, i.e. subdomains and domain names (e.g., www, contentful).
  • Partial paths, with or without the leading slash (e.g., /content-and-ent, content-search).
  • URL parameters and their values (e.g., some_param, some_value, ?some_param=some_value).

Searches like the following will now work:

  • contentful.com/help/con
  • content-and-ent
  • /content-and-en
  • some_param
  • ?some_param=some_value

NOTE: Embedded URLs in rich text fields are not yet supported.

This update is being rolled out progressively, so look out for it becoming available this week. For more information about search capabilities, see the Content search page.