How do people meaningfully search and/or export their #Mastodon favourites? I've been favouriting (not bookmarking) a bunch of useful and/or interesting stuff since I came here, but the data seems difficult to access in a useful way.
When I use my instance's website, there's no search facility on the Favourites page. It only loads a subset of favourites upfront, so without pressing the "load more" button hundreds of times, I can't use my screen reader's find feature either.
When I try the favourites timeline of Semaphore, it also only loads a subset of my favourites, but apparently without a means of loading more of them.
In Mona on iOS, I would likewise have to keep finding, and then pressing, "load more posts".
When I try to find information on the internet about possible qualifiers for searching my own favourites, I get results about API calls and installing Elasticsearch as an instance owner.
In the "import/export" section of my account preferences, it doesn't say anything about favourites, and doesn't make it clear whether my posts archive would include them.
@jscholes in the web interface on desktop use in:library (in colon library) to search favorites.
@listless @GreenSkyOverMe Thank you both for this suggestion! Unfortunately, that returns no results for a very common term, so I suspect that my instance doesn't have full-text search enabled or something. CC @admin
@jscholes The in:library should be working without full-text search. It was working on the instance I am on before they got more processing power and enabled full-text search. Not sure what else could be wrong on the instance. One thing I noticed in:library has to be all lower case. When typing in the beginning of the field the I of in is automatically capitalized. Also there must not be a space after the colon between in and library.
@GreenSkyOverMe It doesn't seem to be auto-capitalising the first letter of my query, and there's no space. But no matter what I type after "in:library", there are no matches.
@jscholes Is this still a problem? I can investigate full text search if this is something people would like to have, though it might take me a few days.
@admin It's not still a problem for me personally; I now have my favourites and statuses in HTML and plain text, with an easy way to update the archive with changes. Thanks for the response though, appreciate it!