I see some questions (but mostly answers) that mention tags. For example I could mention the burrito tag here.
Is there a way I could search for posts that have mentioned a particular tag?
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For cases where you're on a child meta site (e.g. Meta Stack Overflow) and you want to search for posts mentioning a main site tag, you can just search for e.g. url:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/exception, as I mentioned in this answer.
That doesn't work for Meta Stack Exchange, cases where the [tag:] syntax is used on a main site, or where [meta-tag:] is used on a child meta site. Searching for url:https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/burrito will find my answer (because I literally mention the link) but fail to find your question. However, there's a neat trick for this: you can search for url:/questions/tagged/burrito:
It will find posts where people directly linked to the tag page as well; I don't think those can be filtered out easily. You can use other search options to e.g. limit the search results to questions only with is:q.
The obvious way, searching for the full URL with url:https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/tagged/burrito doesn't work in this particular case, because the [tag:burrito] element is rendered as <a href="/questions/tagged/burrito" class="post-tag" title="show questions tagged 'burrito'" rel="tag">burrito</a>, which uses a relative URL.
answered Aug 2, 2019 at 6:59
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It took me a few educated guesses to get the syntax right as well. In fact, I was already writing a horribly slow SEDE query to search for the literal occurrence of
[tag:burrito]in the markdown.– Glorfindel ModAug 2, 2019 at 7:21 -
Heh, it turns out I answered a pretty similar question 6-8 weeks ago. It is slightly different, though, funny to see how the post rendering works in detail.– Glorfindel ModAug 2, 2019 at 7:31
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@Glorfindel I think this answer is far more detailed. Perhaps close the other one as a dupe?– LuuklagAug 2, 2019 at 7:39
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That makes sense, but I should first edit the details in the other answer into this one, I guess.– Glorfindel ModAug 2, 2019 at 7:46
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Seem that solution works for tag substring, not a full tag. For instance this request gives me post with any
status*tag.– αλεχολυτMar 4, 2021 at 12:40 -
@αλεχολυτ you're right, and using double quotes doesn't help: meta.stackexchange.com/… (and the hyphen in
status-*is not to blame, see meta.stackexchange.com/…)– Glorfindel ModMar 4, 2021 at 12:58