SharePoint 2013 Search REST API

You can use the Search REST service to submit Keyword Query Language (KQL) or FAST Query Language (FQL) queries in your apps for SharePoint, remote client applications, mobile applications, and other applications.

The Search REST service supports both HTTP POST and HTTP GET requests.

GET requests

Construct the URI for query GET requests to the Search REST service as follows:

/_api/search/query

For GET requests, you specify the query parameters in the URL. You can construct the GET request URL in two ways:

• http://server/_api/search/query?query_parameter=value&query_parameter=value

• http://server/_api/search/query(query_parameter=value&query_parameter=)

POST requests

You construct the URI for query POST requests to the Search REST service as follows:

/_api/search/postquery

For POST requests, you pass the query parameters in the request in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format.