Django-haystack search for #hashtag [duplicate]

Question

I really have 0 experience in Haystack, but we use django-haystack for our search. For now the search works fine, but I just added #hashtags to the site and I would like the search to work somehow different for hashtagged words.

What I have right now:

• The results of searching for "pizza" and "#pizza" are the same, I think this is happening because "#" is being omitted in the search as a character.

What I want to accomplish:

• The results of searching for "#pizza" should only containt the text "#pizza".

Hope anyone can help me

Answer 1

Other people have modified WordDelimiterFilterFactory and WordDelimiterFilter to handle @ and #-characters as digits. Maybe that can work for you too?