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OpenSearch:API overview

Last Updated:Feb 08, 2023

The OpenSearch API is a RESTful web API. The topics in the API reference describe the features, request methods, and parameters of the API operations. The OpenSearch API contains the operations that are related to applications, data uploads, and searches.

Each request to call an API operation must contain a URL request string and request headers. Otherwise, the request is invalid.

Terms

Acronym

Full name

Description

app

application

An application serves as a complete search service.

Error codes

Related topic

Description

Error codes

Describes error codes.

Common call methods

Related topic

Description

Signature method of OpenSearch API V3

Describes the authentication and signature calculation mechanism of OpenSearch.

API operations related to applications

Related topic

Description

Process data

Create, update, and delete documents.

Initiate search requests

Search for documents.

Query drop-down suggestions

Query drop-down suggestions.

Push collected data

You can call an API operation to push collected data to a specific application.

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