Search
Example of searching for posts and communities across Lemmy's federated network.
CommunitiesFederatedFediverseLink AggregatorOpen-SourceSocial Networks
Search is an example object payload from Lemmy, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.
{
"title": "Search Lemmy Content",
"description": "Example of searching for posts and communities across Lemmy's federated network.",
"request": {
"method": "GET",
"url": "https://lemmy.world/api/v4/search?q=rust+programming&type_=Posts&sort=Hot&listing_type=All&page=1&limit=10",
"headers": {
"Authorization": "Bearer eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.example"
}
},
"response": {
"status": 200,
"body": {
"type_": "Posts",
"comments": [],
"posts": [
{
"post": {
"id": 1234567,
"name": "Why Rust is becoming the language of choice for systems programming",
"url": "https://example.com/rust-systems-programming",
"body": null,
"creator_id": 99001,
"community_id": 456,
"removed": false,
"locked": false,
"published": "2026-06-12T08:00:00.000000Z",
"updated": null,
"deleted": false,
"nsfw": false,
"ap_id": "https://programming.dev/post/1234567",
"local": false,
"language_id": 37,
"featured_community": false,
"featured_local": false
},
"creator": {
"id": 99001,
"name": "rust_fan",
"display_name": "Rust Fan",
"avatar": "https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/avatar.webp",
"banned": false,
"published": "2023-01-15T10:00:00.000000Z",
"actor_id": "https://programming.dev/u/rust_fan",
"local": false,
"bot_account": false,
"deleted": false,
"instance_id": 42
},
"community": {
"id": 456,
"name": "rust",
"title": "Rust Programming Language",
"removed": false,
"published": "2023-05-01T00:00:00.000000Z",
"deleted": false,
"nsfw": false,
"actor_id": "https://programming.dev/c/rust",
"local": false,
"hidden": false,
"posting_restricted_to_mods": false,
"instance_id": 42,
"visibility": "Public"
},
"counts": {
"post_id": 1234567,
"comments": 47,
"score": 312,
"upvotes": 320,
"downvotes": 8,
"published": "2026-06-12T08:00:00.000000Z"
},
"subscribed": "NotSubscribed",
"saved": false,
"read": false,
"my_vote": null,
"unread_comments": 47,
"banned_from_community": false
}
],
"communities": [],
"users": []
}
}
}