ObjectsSearch Web APIs Reference Overview This document explains in detail the semantics of the function calls you can
make using the ObjectsSearch Web APIs service. In this document, you will learn: You may also find the following files from the ObjectsSearch Web APIs
developer kit to be helpful: This is a beta document. If you have comments, find errors, or just have
questions, please contact 1.1 Search Requests Search requests submit a query string and a set of parameters to the
ObjectsSearch Web APIs service and receive in return a set of search results. The details of the interactions involved with search requests are covered in the Search Request Format and Search Results Format sections of this document. 2. Search Request Format 2.1 Search Parameters queryParameter startParameter Number of results desired per query. The maximum value per
query is 10. 2.2 Query Terms - <queryParameter>
Please visit the link below for information on Queries.
http://www.objectssearch.com/en/help.html
3. Search Results Format
3.1 Search Response
Each time you issue a search request to the ObjectsSearch service, a response
is returned back to you. This section describes the meanings of the values
returned to you.
<resultElements> - An array of <resultElement> items. This
corresponds to the actual list of search results.
<searchQuery> - This is the value of <queryParameter> for
the search request.
<startIndex> - Indicates the index (1-based) of the first search
result in <resultElements>.
<endIndex> - Indicates the index (1-based) of the last search
result in <resultElements>.
<estimatedTotalResultsCount> - The estimated total number of
results that exist for the query.
3.2 OS_SearchResultElement
<summary> - Summary shows the query in context on the URL
where it appears. This is formatted HTML and usually includes <B> tags
within it. Note that the query term does not always appear in the summary. Note:
Query terms will be in highlighted in bold in the results, and line breaks will
be included for proper text wrapping.
<URL> - The URL of the search result, returned as text, with an
absolute URL path.
<title> - The title of the search result, returned as HTML
Zero-based index of the first desired result.
hitsPerPageParameter
Note: If you do a query that doesn't have many matches,
the actual number of results you get may be smaller than what you request.
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