[Plugin] Docker Search: live search and quick filters for the Docker page

With 80+ containers the Docker tab gets hard to scan, so I made a small plugin that adds a search box and filter chips above the container list.

• Type to filter by name, image, folder, network, IP, port or compose stack. Supports key:value (image:linuxserver, net:br0, port:8080, cpu:4, label:...), is: filters (is:unhealthy, is:update, -is:running) and quoted values.

• Chips with live counts: Running, Stopped, Healthy, Unhealthy, Update available, Autostart on/off, WebUI, CPU pinned, plus a network picker.

• Works with folder.view2: folders with matches open automatically and show a matches/total badge, then close again when you clear the search.

• / to focus, Esc to clear. Remembers the last filter, and the URL hash can be shared (/Docker#q=plex&f=running).

• Follows all four themes. It only hides rows, never edits them, so sorting, drag-to-reorder, context menus, autostart switches and Basic/Advanced view work as usual. No stock files are changed.

Unraid 7.0+. Install via Plugins → Install Plugin:
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/davidcoulson/unraid-docker-search/main/docker.search.plg

Source and issues: https://github.com/davidcoulson/unraid-docker-search (MIT)

AI disclosure: I wrote this with an AI coding assistant (Claude), guided and tested by me: I set the requirements and design and tested it on my own server (Unraid 7.4, 80+ containers, folder.view2). Before release a second AI (OpenAI Codex) did an independent code review. It found no critical issues, and I fixed what it did flag:

• crafted URL filter values like #f=constructor could break filtering

• full image tags weren’t searchable when the page shortens them

• extra container data (CPU pinning, networks) didn’t refresh after changes

• a folder you closed while filtering could reopen on a list refresh

• autostart switch changes didn’t update the counts straight away

• the data endpoint could return broken JSON if Docker was down, and didn’t cap label size

It also caught that my sample-data fixture still held some private folder names, which I removed before publishing. The filter logic has automated tests in the repo. Bug reports welcome.