Movie/TV Show search term not working for all strings

[ghost]

Hello there,

recently the API seems to be having some trouble handling all search terms, for example, searching for only 1 character always works, 2 almost never works, but searching for the entire name always works, so for example:

"S" > Returns
"Su" > Does not return
"Super" > Returns

This seems to affect not only PopcornTime's search feature, but also the API results directly.

[ChrisAlderson]

The API doesn't search for characters, it searches for keywords. in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. The S is seen as a keyword. su won't return anything since there is no title with a keywords that matches su. super will return items (example Super Fun Night) since it does have the keyword super in it.

So in short this is expected behaviour.

[ghost]

Hmm interesting, was it always like this? Because I remember it used to behave like a search feature.

[ChrisAlderson]

This has always been this way.