advanced_search() returning unexpected results when searching for a string about pycaching HOT 9 CLOSED

@BelKed As you tend to have more knowledge of the search itself: Can you say something about this behavior? To me it seems like the search does not really return geocaches with have a match with the string anyway.

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The st field is for location around which you want to search. The code should look something like this:

list(
    geocaching.advanced_search(
        {
            "st": "Prague, Hlavní město Praha",
            "ot": "query",
            "asc": "true",
            "sort": "distance",
        },
        20,
    )
)

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Is there a field that allows me to input a name of a cache?

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I don't think searching for a cache name is supported on the Geocaching website for non-premium members.

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The strange thing is that if I search for say “The Secret Creek Cache” in the Geocaching websites search bar the according cache DOES show up and in the URL it says st=“The Secret Creek Cache (obviously without spaces).

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Well, for me it doesn't work, since the cache is too far away from my home coordinates.

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@BelKed That’s strange… is it possible to search for plain text in any way via pycaching?

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I'd say the simplest solution would be to load all the caches in the area you want to search, and then use Python to search through the loaded caches.

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@BelKed Oh, ok. Not the exactly what I was looking for but I guess that’ll work.

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