diff --git a/packages/api/src/resolvers/subscriptions/index.ts b/packages/api/src/resolvers/subscriptions/index.ts
index 98e0d9c79..77464dbec 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/resolvers/subscriptions/index.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/resolvers/subscriptions/index.ts
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import axios from 'axios'
 import { parseHTML } from 'linkedom'
-import Parser from 'rss-parser'
 import { Brackets } from 'typeorm'
 import { Subscription } from '../../entity/subscription'
 import { env } from '../../env'
@@ -47,18 +46,6 @@ import { parseFeed, parseOpml } from '../../utils/parser'
 
 type PartialSubscription = Omit<Subscription, 'newsletterEmail'>
 
-const parser = new Parser({
-  timeout: 30000, // 30 seconds
-  maxRedirects: 5,
-  headers: {
-    // some rss feeds require user agent
-    'User-Agent':
-      'Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/116.0.0.0 Safari/537.36',
-    Accept:
-      'application/rss+xml, application/rdf+xml;q=0.8, application/atom+xml;q=0.6, application/xml;q=0.4, text/xml;q=0.4',
-  },
-})
-
 export type SubscriptionsSuccessPartial = Merge<
   SubscriptionsSuccess,
   { subscriptions: PartialSubscription[] }
diff --git a/packages/api/src/utils/search.ts b/packages/api/src/utils/search.ts
index 33329e13a..5de97c6b4 100644
--- a/packages/api/src/utils/search.ts
+++ b/packages/api/src/utils/search.ts
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ export const parseSearchQuery = (query: string): LiqeQuery => {
     .replace('in:subscription', 'has:subscriptions') // compatibility with old search
     .replace('in:library', 'no:subscription') // compatibility with old search
     // wrap the value behind colon in quotes if it's not already
-    .replace(/(\w+):([^"\s]+)/g, '$1:"$2"')
+    .replace(/(\w+):("([^"]+)"|([^"\s]+))/g, '$1:"$3$4"')
 
   return parse(searchQuery)
 }