Answers.Body: <p>Before Craft saves any keywords in the <code>craft_searchindex</code> table in the database, that content goes through a normalization process, including things like removing punctuation.</p>
  
  <p>So the link "<a href="http://bit.ly/1eZFQMY" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://bit.ly/1eZFQMY</a>" will actually get normalized to <code>http bit ly 1ezfqmy</code>.</p>
  
  <p>If you really wanted to find all entries with bitly URLs in them, then using <code>"http bit ly"</code> should work.</p>
  
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Body: <p>I'm trying to find using <a href="https://docs.craftcms.com/v2/searching.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">craft search</a> "bitly" urls in body rich-text field in articles. It's for generation of list of popular articles.
  So if query is a link (like "<a href="http://bit.ly/1eZFQMY" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://bit.ly/1eZFQMY</a>") search doesn't find anything.</p>
  
  <p>Tried "fuzzy" search and all methods listed on <a href="https://docs.craftcms.com/v2/searching.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">craft search</a> page.</p>
  
Tags: <craft3><search>
Title: Search for href parameter in rich text field
ThreadText: # Search for href parameter in rich text field
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2018-07-06)
  
  I'm trying to find using [craft search](https://docs.craftcms.com/v2/searching.html) "bitly" urls in body rich-text field in articles. It's for generation of list of popular articles.
  So if query is a link (like "<http://bit.ly/1eZFQMY>") search doesn't find anything.
  
  Tried "fuzzy" search and all methods listed on [craft search](https://docs.craftcms.com/v2/searching.html) page.
  
  **Tags:** craft3, search
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2018-07-06. Score: 1
  
  Before Craft saves any keywords in the `craft_searchindex` table in the database, that content goes through a normalization process, including things like removing punctuation.
  
  So the link "<http://bit.ly/1eZFQMY>" will actually get normalized to `http bit ly 1ezfqmy`.
  
  If you really wanted to find all entries with bitly URLs in them, then using `"http bit ly"` should work.
  
  
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