Overview

Introduction

The Search and Retrieve API provides a means for looking up content from an App based on search criteria, include related content and return the relevant fields for a specific use case. That App could be an iOS or Android mobile app or it could be a web app or another kind of web site requesting the content. It can be used to search for any content, but it is especially useful for Headless content, since it allows for referenced content to be included and for field filtering. It is very fast thanks to searching using the Apache Solr search engine and retrieving content via the powerful XperienCentral cache. The search queries are concise and written either in JSON, usually used when querying from code, or YAML which is easier to read and write when developing or testing queries.

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Basic usage

Send an HTTP POST request to https://yoursite.com/web/searchretrieve/v1/yaml containing a search query like this:

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