A Search Request method enables a RESTful API client to perform an expert search across all or any combination of Geofacets content sources.
The input for the search request, a query string and additional search options, supports different searches available on the Geofacets web application. Help topics on doing an expert search in the web application can be found here . API documentation for the Geofacets Search API can be found in the links below.
WADL documentation
Swagger documentation
The API documentation provides details on use of advanced search options and links to the Geofacets Online Help for options that correspond to options in the Geofacets Online web application.
Please check here here on getting an API Key for your organization. The search examples on this page work for API Key values that do IP address based authentication.
Here is the URL syntax for doing a search without setting any advanced options
/geofacets/api/search?apiKey={apiKey}&query={query terms}
OR
[Request headers] X-ELS-APIKey: 5135c5817a6d86b633013ee9e4d120b5 Accept: application/atom+xml [Request URL] /geofacets/api/search?query=rift basin&searchType=text&view=docs
Where:
--{query terms} are any applicable search field or query terms from the Geofacets expert search syntax
If not specified, the response from a search request is a JSON object with the MIME type application/json. Output is also available as XML by specifying an Accept header with the value application/xml.
[Request headers]
X-ELS-APIKey: {apiKey}
Accept: application/xml
[Request URL]
/geofacets/api/search?query=rift basin&searchType=text&view=docs
Here is a sample request and response for a search for items with the word "shale".
$ curl "https://api.elsevier.com/geofacets/api/search?apiKey=5135c5817a6d86b633013ee9e4d120b5&query=rift basin&searchType=text&view=docs"
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Here is the output formatted for readability.
{
"status":{
"statusCode":"OK",
"statusText":"Successful"
},
"query":{
"filters":[
{
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"removeId":"d241eb6c-e329-4f7b-abc0-a89a88845708",
"text":"rift basin",
"excluded":false
},
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"text":"ba:\"East African Rift System Eastern Branch\" ba:\"East African Rift System Western Branch\"",
"excluded":true
},
{
"removeId":"d235c18e-0e72-48c6-9641-c68fb572f76e",
"text":"sa:\"L\"",
"excluded":true
},
{
"id":"Elsevier",
"removeId":"6846dd0f-e497-46d3-93db-11d139fc8f03",
"text":"pub:\"1\" pub:\"4\"",
"excluded":true
},
{
"id":"Msub:\"Geology\"",
"removeId":"71d297d3-2719-40e9-93d6-056969f17e8a",
"text":"msub:\"Geology\"",
"excluded":true
}
],
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}
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