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Fulltext Search

Fulltext search across the Internet Archive's entire corpus of texts

get/search/books

Query parameters

textstring

A string literate to search within the specified (or all) book collection(s)

collectionsstring

CSV of the names of the archive.org collections to limit search within

fieldsstring

A CSV of fields' (options: ids, names) to limit the values returned back

Response

200

tookinteger
timed_outboolean

Example response

{
  "hits": {
    "hits": [
      {
        "_type": "book",
        "_index": "books_index",
        "_score": 0.029042399,
        "fields": {
          "creator": [
            "Quintus Horatius Flaccus,  Horace ,  Theodore Martin"
          ],
          "title": [
            "The Odes, Epodes and Satires of Horace"
          ],
          "page_num": [
            438
          ],
          "collection": [
            "europeanlibraries"
          ],
          "filename": [
            "odesepodesandsa00martgoog_abbyy.gz"
          ],
          "identifier": [
            "odesepodesandsa00martgoog"
          ],
          "date_int": [
            "1870"
          ]
        },
        "highlight": {
          "text": [
            ",—and the delights of this agreeable retreat, and the {{{charm}}} of the poet's society, were doubtless more than a compensation for the plain fare or the thin home-grown wine, Vile Sahinum, with which its resources alone enabled him to regale them.\nThe life of Horace, from the time of his intimacy with"
          ]
        },
        "_id": "odesepodesandsa00martgoog|ca70b52d4bcf1222505802e659ef5e13e74d0277"
      }
    ],
    "total": 35,
    "max_score": 0.029042399
  },
  "took": 851,
  "_shards": {
    "successful": 5,
    "total": 5
  }
}