Discourse Search API

The Search API from Discourse — 1 operation(s) for search.

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OpenAPI Specification

discourse-search-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
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