Discourse Search API
The Search API from Discourse — 1 operation(s) for search.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Discourse API Documentation Search API
x-logo:
url: https://docs.discourse.org/logo.svg
version: latest
description: This page contains the documentation on how to use Discourse through API calls.
license:
name: MIT
url: https://docs.discourse.org/LICENSE.txt
servers:
- url: https://{defaultHost}
variables:
defaultHost:
default: discourse.example.com
tags:
- name: Search
paths:
/search.json:
get:
summary: Search for a term
tags:
- Search
operationId: search
parameters:
- name: q
in: query
example: 'api @blake #support tags:api after:2021-06-04 in:unseen in:open
order:latest_topic'
description: 'The query string needs to be url encoded and is made up of the following options:
- Search term. This is just a string. Usually it would be the first item in the query.
- `@<username>`: Use the `@` followed by the username to specify posts by this user.
- `#<category>`: Use the `#` followed by the category slug to search within this category.
- `tags:`: `api,solved` or for posts that have all the specified tags `api+solved`.
- `before:`: `yyyy-mm-dd`
- `after:`: `yyyy-mm-dd`
- `order:`: `latest`, `likes`, `views`, `latest_topic`
- `assigned:`: username (without `@`)
- `in:`: `title`, `likes`, `personal`, `messages`, `seen`, `unseen`, `posted`, `created`, `watching`, `tracking`, `bookmarks`, `assigned`, `unassigned`, `first`, `pinned`, `wiki`
- `with:`: `images`
- `status:`: `open`, `closed`, `public`, `archived`, `noreplies`, `single_user`, `solved`, `unsolved`
- `group:`: group_name or group_id
- `group_messages:`: group_name or group_id
- `min_posts:`: 1
- `max_posts:`: 10
- `min_views:`: 1
- `max_views:`: 10
If you are using cURL you can use the `-G` and the `--data-urlencode` flags to encode the query:
```
curl -i -sS -X GET -G "http://localhost:4200/search.json" \
--data-urlencode ''q=wordpress @scossar #fun after:2020-01-01''
```
'
schema:
type: string
- name: page
in: query
example: 1
schema:
type: integer
responses:
'200':
description: success response
content:
application/json:
schema:
additionalProperties: false
properties:
posts:
type: array
items: {}
users:
type: array
items: {}
categories:
type: array
items: {}
tags:
type: array
items:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
name:
type: string
slug:
type: string
required:
- id
- name
- slug
groups:
type: array
items: {}
grouped_search_result:
type: object
additionalProperties: false
properties:
more_posts:
type:
- string
- 'null'
more_users:
type:
- string
- 'null'
more_categories:
type:
- string
- 'null'
term:
type: string
search_log_id:
type: integer
more_full_page_results:
type:
- string
- 'null'
can_create_topic:
type: boolean
error:
type:
- string
- 'null'
extra:
type: object
properties:
categories:
type:
- array
- 'null'
post_ids:
type: array
items: {}
user_ids:
type: array
items: {}
category_ids:
type: array
items: {}
tag_ids:
type: array
items: {}
group_ids:
type: array
items: {}
required:
- more_posts
- more_users
- more_categories
- term
- search_log_id
- more_full_page_results
- can_create_topic
- error
- post_ids
- user_ids
- category_ids
- tag_ids
- group_ids
required:
- posts
- users
- categories
- tags
- groups
- grouped_search_result
x-provenance:
method: harvested
publisher: Discourse
source: https://docs.discourse.org/openapi.json
note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)