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<h1>Search API<a class="headerlink" href="#search-api" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Search API endpoints: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/search</span></code><a class="headerlink" href="#search-api-endpoints-search" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Endpoints have equivalent functionality.</p>
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<h2>Parameters<a class="headerlink" href="#parameters" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">q</span></code></td>
<td>The search query, see <a class="reference internal" href="../user/search_syntax.html"><em>Search syntax</em></a></td>
<td>required</td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">categories</span></code></td>
<td>Comma separated list, specifies the active search categories</td>
<td>optional</td>
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<tr class="row-even"><td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">engines</span></code></td>
<td>Comma separated list, specifies the active search engines</td>
<td>optional</td>
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<tr class="row-odd"><td><code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">pageno</span></code></td>
<td>Search page number</td>
<td>optional (default: <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">1</span></code>)</td>
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<p>Both <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">GET</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">POST</span></code> methods are supported.</p>
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