godotengine / godotengine/godot-docs

Search doesn't work for simplest cases

Open
#12,180 1 comment 3 reactions 0 assignees View on GitHub
bug
Dominant language
reStructuredText
Stars
5.7k
Forks
3.8k
Avg merge
1d 20h
Merged PRs (30d)
25

Description

**Your Godot version:**
4.71.

**Issue description:**

I would expect the documentation search to show me the PhysicsBody2D documentation when I search for "PhysicsBody", but only when I spell out the whole type it works. This is really frustrating and not a usable search in 2026. Most frustrating is that the search in older godot documentation versions worked perfectly, why was this changed to a significanly inferior version of search?
Searching for a specific full method name also simply doesn't work.
\
I would suggest that we rollback to the previous search.

Image

Image

Image
\
Image

**URL to the documentation page:**
https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/
Specific page doesn't matter, it's about the search.

Contributor guide

No contributing guide indexed for this repository

Research direction

Start at https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/ and reproduce the reported searches for "PhysicsBody" and a specific full method name. Compare the current results with the older documentation search behavior described in the issue; done means partial class and method searches return the relevant documentation pages.

Written by the indexing model from the issue text.

Assessment

Tech stack
godot
Domain
documentation, search
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Active
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
48/100

Get new issues in your inbox

A short digest of beginner-friendly GitHub issues.