Query String Question: How to do similar to [name~Winery] (i.e.)

[Brad-geg]

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Greetings -

New to the forum. I found one answer here earlier today so I figured I would reach out for another.

When running queries on the OSM site, if you want to get features that have the word "Winery" in them you use "[name~Winery]" as the query string. Is there something similar that can be used in the OSM tools, specifically I have adapted the "OSM - Download Using XAPI" tool to perform a table list of queries. It does not like having the "wave dash" as the operand, and so I need something similar to "%Winery%" or "*Winery*". Does this exist such that it can be used in an automated OSM query via the XAPI?

Thanks in advance...

Brad