Search API

POST /api/search

Execute a multi-search query. Accepts the Algolia InstantSearch multi-search format.

Request


{
  "requests": [
    {
      "indexName": "products",
      "params": {
        "query": "keyboard",
        "hitsPerPage": 12,
        "page": 0,
        "facets": ["category", "brand"],
        "maxValuesPerFacet": 10,
        "facetFilters": [["category:Electronics"]],
        "highlightPreTag": "__ais-highlight__",
        "highlightPostTag": "__/ais-highlight__"
      }
    }
  ]
}

The params field accepts either an object (InstantSearch v7+) or a URL-encoded string (legacy).

Headers

Header	Required	Description
`Content-Type`	Yes	`application/json`
`X-Locale`	No	Locale for multilingual collection resolution

Response


{
  "results": [
    {
      "hits": [
        {
          "objectID": "5",
          "name": "Mechanical Keyboard",
          "description": "RGB mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches",
          "price": 149.99,
          "category": "Electronics",
          "brand": "KeyCraft",
          "_highlightResult": {
            "name": {
              "value": "Mechanical <mark>Keyboard</mark>",
              "matchLevel": "full",
              "matchedWords": ["Keyboard"]
            }
          }
        }
      ],
      "nbHits": 1,
      "page": 0,
      "nbPages": 1,
      "hitsPerPage": 12,
      "processingTimeMS": 1,
      "query": "keyboard",
      "facets": {
        "category": { "Electronics": 1 },
        "brand": { "KeyCraft": 1 }
      },
      "exhaustiveNbHits": true
    }
  ]
}

Error Response

When Typesense returns errors, the response includes an _errors array:


{
  "results": [{ "hits": [], "nbHits": 0, ... }],
  "_errors": ["Collection `products` not found."]
}

Caching

Responses are cached in an LRU cache keyed by (requests, locale). Error responses are never cached.

Rate Limiting

Limited to RATE_LIMIT_SEARCH requests per minute per IP (default: 100).