Search API

Fetching Search Results

You can retrieve search results from Fess in JSON format by sending a request to http://<Server Name>/api/v1/documents?q=search term. To use the search API, you need to enable JSON responses in the Administration screen under “General Settings.”

Request Parameters

You can specify request parameters to perform advanced searches, such as http://<Server Name>/api/v1/documents?q=search term&num=50&fields.label=fess. The available request parameters are as follows:

q	The search term. Encode it in the URL.
start	The starting position of the search results. It starts from 0.
num	The number of results to display. The default is 20, and you can display up to 100.
sort	Sorting. Used to sort the search results.
fields.label	Label value. Used to specify a label.
facet.field	Specify a facet field. (e.g., `facet.field=label`)
facet.query	Specify a facet query. (e.g., `facet.query=timestamp:[now/d-1d TO *]`)
facet.size	Specify the maximum number of facets to retrieve. This is valid when facet.field is specified.
facet.minDocCount	Retrieve facets with a count equal to or greater than this value. This is valid when facet.field is specified.
geo.location.point	Specify latitude and longitude. (e.g., `geo.location.point=35.0,139.0`)
geo.location.distance	Specify the distance from the center point. (e.g., `geo.location.distance=10km`)
lang	Specify the search language. (e.g., `lang=en`)
preference	Specify a string to determine the shard to use during search. (e.g., `preference=abc`)
callback	The callback name when using JSONP. It is not necessary to specify if JSONP is not used.

Table: Request Parameters

Response

The response returned will be as follows:

(Formatted version)

{
  "q": "Fess",
  "query_id": "bd60f9579a494dfd8c03db7c8aa905b0",
  "exec_time": 0.21,
  "query_time": 0,
  "page_size": 20,
  "page_number": 1,
  "record_count": 31625,
  "page_count": 1,
  "highlight_params": "&hq=n2sm&hq=Fess",
  "next_page": true,
  "prev_page": false,
  "start_record_number": 1,
  "end_record_number": 20,
  "page_numbers": [
    "1",
    "2",
    "3",
    "4",
    "5"
  ],
  "partial": false,
  "search_query": "(Fess OR n2sm)",
  "requested_time": 1507822131845,
  "related_query": [
    "aaa"
  ],
  "related_contents": [],
  "data": [
    {
      "filetype": "html",
      "title": "Open Source Enterprise Search Server: Fess — Fess 11.0 documentation",
      "content_title": "Open Source Enterprise Search Server: Fess — Fe...",
      "digest": "Docs » Open Source Enterprise Search Server: Fess Commercial Support Open Source Enterprise Search Server: Fess What is Fess? Fess is a powerful and easily deployable Enterprise Search Server. ...",
      "host": "fess.codelibs.org",
      "last_modified": "2017-10-09T22:28:56.000Z",
      "content_length": "29624",
      "timestamp": "2017-10-09T22:28:56.000Z",
      "url_link": "https://fess.codelibs.org/",
      "created": "2017-10-10T15:00:48.609Z",
      "site_path": "fess.codelibs.org/",
      "doc_id": "e79fbfdfb09d4bffb58ec230c68f6f7e",
      "url": "https://fess.codelibs.org/",
      "content_description": "Enterprise Search Server: Fess Commercial Support Open...Search Server: Fess What is Fess? Fess is a very powerful...You can quickly install and run Fess on any platform...Fess is provided under the Apache license...Apache license. Demo Fess is an Elasticsearch-based search",
      "site": "fess.codelibs.org/",
      "boost": "10.0",
      "mimetype": "text/html"
    }
  ]
}

The response will be as follows:

Response Information
q	Search term
exec_time	Response time (in seconds)
query_time	Query processing time (in milliseconds)
page_size	Number of items per page
page_number	Page number
record_count	Total number of hits for the search term
page_count	Number of pages for the search term
highlight_params	Highlighting parameters
next_page	true: Next page exists, false: Next page does not exist
prev_page	true: Previous page exists, false: Previous page does not exist
start_record_number	Starting record number
end_record_number	Ending record number
page_numbers	Array of page numbers
partial	true if the search was truncated due to a timeout or other reasons
search_query	Search query
requested_time	Request time (in epoch milliseconds)
related_query	Related queries
related_contents	Queries related to the content
facet_field	Information about documents that match the given facet field (only if the request parameter “facet.field” is provided)
facet_query	Number of documents that match the given facet query (only if the request parameter “facet.query” is provided)
result	Parent element of search results
filetype	File type
created	Document creation date and time
title	Document title
doc_id	Document ID
url	Document URL
site	Site name
content_description	Description of the content
host	Host name
digest	Digest string of the document
boost	Document boost value
mimetype	MIME type
last_modified	Last modified date and time
content_length	Document size
url_link	URL as part of the search result
timestamp	Document update date and time

Searching All Documents

To search all documents, send the following request: http://<Server Name>/api/v1/documents/all?q=search_term`

To use this feature, you need to set api.search.scroll to true in the fess_config.properties file.

Request Parameters

The available request parameters are as follows:

q	Search term. Pass it after URL encoding.
num	Number of items to display. The default value is 20, and you can display up to 100 items.
sort	Sort order. Used to sort the search results.

Table: Request Parameters

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