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allensmith81
Boss
13 years ago

REST API : Run a search from a specific category

Hi,   If I want to run a search from a custom page on all posts in a specific category how would i do this?   lets say I have a category called 'Test'   Also the reverse of this, how could i ru...
  • JeffS's avatar
    JeffS
    13 years ago

    Hi Allen,

     

    To run a category search, you'd use the following call -

     

    http://community.lithium.com/community-name/restapi/vc/categories/id/support/search

    ...where support is the category id of the category you want to run a search for. Extra parameters/arguments can be added to this call such as ?q=test to specify the term (or terms) to search as well as much more. I would very much recommend checking out our javadocs on REST for more information:

     

    http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Documentation-TKB/Admin-Guide-REST-API-JavaDocs/ta-p/5966

     

    As for searching the entire community sans a specific category, there is not a simple way to do this by means of a single call. A custom component could be built to search specified categories and you would simply omit that one from the list, however there is not a parameter that can be attached to a search call that will let you exclude a particular category.

     

    I hope this helps; please let me know if I can be of further assistance.

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JeffS
Lithium Alumni (Retired)
13 years ago

Hi Allen,

 

To run a category search, you'd use the following call -

 

http://community.lithium.com/community-name/restapi/vc/categories/id/support/search

...where support is the category id of the category you want to run a search for. Extra parameters/arguments can be added to this call such as ?q=test to specify the term (or terms) to search as well as much more. I would very much recommend checking out our javadocs on REST for more information:

 

http://lithosphere.lithium.com/t5/Documentation-TKB/Admin-Guide-REST-API-JavaDocs/ta-p/5966

 

As for searching the entire community sans a specific category, there is not a simple way to do this by means of a single call. A custom component could be built to search specified categories and you would simply omit that one from the list, however there is not a parameter that can be attached to a search call that will let you exclude a particular category.

 

I hope this helps; please let me know if I can be of further assistance.