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Question is in reference to this documentation:

Special characters seem to be ignored:

q = "title contains 'Hello World*'"

Seems to get me the same results as:

q = "title contains 'Hello World'"

I know that the google bar itself doesn't let you search for special characters in a normal way, so I wonder if this is even possible... BUT if I type into the google drive GUI with special characters, it DOES work.

How do I escape the * so I can find file titles which contain it?

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A super hacky way to try to do this is to sniff out what happens when I type in stuff to the browser, and found that to search for g* I made this http post:

<HIDING> was something else but don't want to risk security to my drive:

 https://drive.google.com/cloudsearch/request?client=docs&hl=en&gs_rn=5&gs_ri=docs&view=1&cp=2&gs_id=1u&zx=<HIDING>

client:docs
hl:en
gs_rn:5
gs_ri:docs
view:1
cp:2
gs_id:1u
zx: <HIDING>

There was also additional form data attached to the http post which I have ommited.

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