REST Search

To do a search, an HTTP GET is made to /rest/search.

Syntax

https://<username>:<password>@<host>/rest/search

GET

Search query

Request parameters
The endpoint accepts the following parameters.

Query	Required	The query to be searched
categories	optional	Comma separated list of categories to search. Valid categories follow: container artifact asset app action playbook docs If categories are not provided, the query will be searched across all of them.
tenant	optional	Id of the tenant for whom you want to filter search results.
page	optional	Positive integer. Returned results are paginated. This parameter requests a specific page.
page_size	optional	Positive integer. Returned results are paginated. This parameter determines how many results returned per-page. Use "0" for all results.

Example request
Search query for 'maxmind' in the 'app' and 'docs' categories.

curl -k -u admin:changeme https://localhost/rest/search?query=maxmind&categories=app,docs -G -X GET

Example response
A successful GET will return back a JSON formatted list of key names and data.

{
    count: 10,
    num_pages: 1,
    results: [
        {
            url: "https://10.1.16.99/docs/app_reference/maxmind_c566e153-3118-4033-abda-14dd9748c91a",
            category: "app",
            verbose: "App",
            match: {
                message: ""
            }
        },
        {
            url: "https://10.1.16.99/docs/rest/search",
            category: "docs",
            verbose: "Documentation",
            match: {
                message: ""
            }
        },
        {
            url: "https://10.1.16.99/docs/automation/playbooks",
            category: "docs",
            verbose: "Documentation",
            match: {
                message: ""
            }
        },
        .
        .
        .
    ]
}

The return values of note follow:

Field	Description
url	The url at which the matching search result is located
category	The category that the search result belongs to. Category could be one of the following: container artifact asset app action playbook docs
match	The content that actually matched in the search result. This is a dictionary where the key is the field where the match was found. In Splunk Phantom versions before 4.0, the 'match' field used to return the search term used. In 4.0, it is empty.
verbose	Verbose description of the category in which the match was found.