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Search Bug - Model Browser - Missing Results #1249
Description
What happened?
When searching any variant of "Evie", "Fortnite Evie" and a few other names, no results are shown it literally says "No results found" but, when the same search is done on the CivitAI website many many results are shown for "Evie" (in this case Evie refers to the Fortnite character, Evie), this happens when selecting the Base Model as ALL or any selection ex. (SD1.5, SDXL, Pony, Illustrious, Flux.1 D, etc.).
Steps to reproduce
1 - Search "Evie" or "Fortnite Evie" via Model Browser
2 - Wait
3 - Stare at "No results found"
4 - Cry.... (I'm not crying)
5 - Manually go use the CivitAI website.
6 - Search for "Evie" or "Fortnite Evie"
7 - Get results
8 - Smile
Relevant logs
Version
2.14.0
What Operating System are you using?
Windows
Activity
shuyguy1988 commentedon May 29, 2025
have same problem after a update, cant search at all just says end of results, shows the most popular in civitai, it dont matter what i search on, even if i have nothing in my filters, but homepage works fine
CZ5GYX commentedon May 31, 2025
Same problem here., search functionality in Model Browser is not working any more.
I noticed this behavior after upgrading to Stability Matrix version 2.14.2 (on Windows 11)
mohnjiles commentedon May 31, 2025
Sorry folks, we're looking into what we can do, but it's primarily due to the Civitai API being overloaded. Even direct calls outside of SM encounter timeouts or errors about connection limits. You can check the status of their API on https://status.civitai.com/status/public
You can also try downloading via our browser extensions for Chrome or Firefox in the meantime.
XDM-Inc commentedon Jun 1, 2025
is this related to my issue?
System.ArgumentNullException: Value cannot be null
whenever i search something i get a error saying "CivitaAI cant be reached right now
unknown Exception during CivitaAI query
drdancm commentedon Jun 3, 2025
Same problem with this 2.14.2 version.
DeeJayMhyst commentedon Jun 27, 2025
Seems this is still an issue. Can't search by creator, either.
drdancm commentedon Jun 28, 2025
This just does not work. It's never been broken like this before. When will it be fixed?
mohnjiles commentedon Jun 28, 2025
Could you provide some examples as to what exactly isn't working? I'm unable to reproduce the original issue:
Searching by author also seems to work:
This is on v2.14.2, not using any accelerated model discovery either. If you could provide logs or specific search terms/options to help narrow it down, that'd be great. Thanks!
anthonyalayo commentedon Jul 6, 2025
I'm also hitting this exact error. I tried downloading a different version and that didn't help.
drdancm commentedon Jul 7, 2025
I was using the prior version of StabMatrix, so it is possible that things are working better now. I will check with the new 2.14.2 version and let you know.
A bit of confusion was introduced with the Show/Do not Show NSFW filter, unclear which option was in effect. A box w a checkmark would be a lot clearer than blue color or no color.
Thank You !
anthonyalayo commentedon Jul 30, 2025
I did a full reinstall, and it's still buggy. Take for example this LORA:
https://civitai.com/models/21585/persona5-style
If I search
Persona5 styleorPersona5, I only get unrated LORAs despite sorting byHighestRated:Thankfully, direct URL search is built in, so copy/pasting it from civit.ai unblocks for now:
Is this an API issue with CivitAI or an integration issue with Stability Matrix?
XDM-Inc commentedon Jul 30, 2025
I've also noticed that the search results don't match with the website can find. But if you do put the hash back in stability matrix, then all of a sudden you can find one that didn't show before
github-actions commentedon Sep 29, 2025
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github-actions commentedon Oct 7, 2025
This issue was closed because it has been stale for 7 days with no activity.
alowgamer777-cloud commentedon Oct 29, 2025
One question: has the issue with the CivitAI API been resolved in the latest version 20.15.3 of the Stability Matrix?
XDM-Inc commentedon Oct 29, 2025
I wouldn't say resolved. Even yesterday I got an API error saying try again later. I also noticed that the search results don't match the website sometimes. I can't find certain things within the stability matrix but if I go to the browser and I'll find it. Also despite what stability matrix can support as in searching via hashes or IDs that doesn't work at all. Searching with id always bring one and only one search result and it's always to the same model which is unrelated. A good 30% of the time. I have to still use the web browser to go, download a model manually and then hit refresh and imports methane for it to pop up correctly
mohnjiles commentedon Oct 29, 2025
Sorry folks, the search weirdness is due to an issue with the Civitai API. I've already filed a bug (over a month ago) - civitai/civitai#1848
Not much we can do until this issue gets fixed on their end unfortunately, outside of learning how their code works and fixing it for them.
That said, search by ID (prefixed with
$#) and search by civit URL should still work (assuming their API isn't overloaded at the time), so feel free to open a separate issue for that.alowgamer777-cloud commentedon Oct 29, 2025
Setting up the API worked by updating to the version I mentioned, but the part about the search is correct, so thanks for the advice about using the ID or URL.
Merge pull request LykosAI#1249 from ionite34/backport/main/pr-1248