Search and scope prefixes

Narrow a Kochab search to movies, TV, music, sport and more by typing a scope before your term.

Search looks across every catalog service in the active stack at once. When that is broader than you want, type a scope before your term.

tv: the bear
movie: dune
artist: shpongle

The app hints at this under the search field, but only names a few. The full set is below.

Every scope, and what it accepts

Any alias in a row does the same thing. They are matched case-insensitively.

Scope Type any of
Movies movie: movies: film: films:
TV tv: show: shows: series:
Music music: audio: artist: artists:
Sport sport: sports:
Anime anime:
Books book: books: ebook: ebooks:
Audiobooks audiobook: audiobooks:
Software pc: software: iso:

A scope narrows both catalog results and indexer releases, so tv: the bear searches your libraries and your indexers for the series rather than for anything matching those words.

Colons in titles, and scopes with nothing after them

Kochab only treats a prefix as a scope when it recognizes it. Mission: Impossible searches for the film - mission is not a scope, so the whole phrase is searched as written.

A bare scope with no term after it is searched as plain text instead of running an empty scoped query, so tv: on its own still returns results.

When a scope does not help

  • Nothing is configured to answer it. An audiobook: search needs an indexer that carries audiobooks in the stack. With none, the scope is understood and the results are empty.
  • You want a specific release rather than a title. That is a different search: open a title and use its release search, which queries indexers directly and shows the individual releases with their sizes, ages and seeders.
  • You want a subtitle. Bazarr’s manual subtitle search is reached from a title, not from here.