Secure Search API requires two API calls

1. Get the security token

2. Search servlet API request using the security token

# GET the Security Token

The request for authentication sends the credentials based on the security selected that is, SearchBlox Realm or LDAP Realm.

## Prerequisite

Please select the realm in Search -> Security settings, give the required users, groups and then authenticate using the following API call:

## Method:

POST

## Content-Type:

application/json

## URL:

[http://localhost:8080/searchblox/rest/v2/api/secured/authenticate](🔗)

## JSON Request:





# Search servlet API request

Using the the token generated in previous step you can get the search results in JSON format using the following API request

## Prerequisite

Provide the token generated in previous request as bearer token under authentication. Please refer the screenshot in postman for the same.



## Method:

GET

## URL:

[http://localhost:8080/searchblox/rest/v2/api/search?query=*](🔗)

## params

Below given are basic mandatory parameters. There are a wide variety of parameters that are supported, please refer [Search Parameters](🔗)