I Wanted to search the vault for “.ph” ,
You know, all the items in my vault that pertain to the Philippines, I mean have the. PH domain at the end of their URL.
Alas, one just cannot search that way. Too bad.
I do not personally use the mobile app, so I cannot test this for you, but certainly the published documentation indicates that you should be able to search that way:
Basic search is used by Bitwarden mobile apps. Entering search text … will look for the entered information in the following vault item fields:
…
- For logins, URI
…For your convenience, basic searches automatically include leading and trailing wildcards. For example, searching for
gmailas well as
Thus, entering the search expression .ph is equivalent to entering *.ph*, which should find login items containing URIs such as https://www.example.ph or https://www.pharmacy.com.
What happens when you search for .ph?
It turns out on the Android app “.ph” even matches “/index.php” deep in the autofill records on vault items.
Thus drowning out the results with many more matches than one gets with the same vault as seen on the chrome extension.
On any non-mobile Bitwarden app (or browser extension), you should be able to use the advanced search expression >*.ph to get a more narrow list of search results. However, mobile apps only use Basic Search, which does not have advanced search capabilities. There is a relevant feature request here:
Yes, the authors need to add an
Then the same code will act the same on all devices.
They could certainly add an abstraction layer to make the non-mobile apps act like the mobile apps (Basic Search only for all apps and devices), but to achieve parity the other way — i.e., for advanced search to work on mobile apps, Bitwarden would need to completely rewrite the code used for searching.
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