---
title: "Full-text search across all paragraphs"
method: POST
path: "/search"
tags: ["Search"]
---

# Full-text search across all paragraphs

`POST /search`

Search the Urantia Papers using full-text search. Supports three search modes:
- **and**: All words must appear (default)
- **or**: Any word can appear
- **phrase**: Exact phrase match

Results are ranked by relevance. Optional filters: paperId, partId.

## Request body

- object
  - `q` string, required
  - `page` integer
  - `limit` integer
  - `paperId` string
  - `partId` string
  - `type` 'phrase' | 'and' | 'or'
  - `include` string

## Response `200`

Search results with pagination

- object
  - `data` object[], required
    - `id` string, required
    - `standardReferenceId` string, required
    - `sortId` string, required
    - `paperId` string, required
    - `sectionId` string, nullable, required
    - `partId` string, required
    - `paperTitle` string, required
    - `sectionTitle` string, nullable, required
    - `paragraphId` string, required
    - `text` string, required
    - `htmlText` string, required
    - `language` string
    - `labels` string[], nullable, required
    - `audio` object, nullable, required
    - `entities` object[]
      - `id` string, required
      - `name` string, required
      - `type` 'being' | 'place' | 'order' | 'race' | 'religion' | 'concept', required
    - `bibleParallels` object[]
      - `chunkId` string, required
      - `reference` string, required
      - `bookCode` string, required
      - `chapter` integer, required
      - `verseStart` integer, required
      - `verseEnd` integer, required
      - `text` string, required
      - `similarity` number, required
      - `rank` integer, required
      - `source` string, required
      - `embeddingModel` string, required
    - `urantiaParallels` object[]
      - `id` string, required
      - `standardReferenceId` string, required
      - `paperId` string, required
      - `paperTitle` string, required
      - `sectionTitle` string, nullable, required
      - `text` string, required
      - `similarity` number, required
      - `rank` integer, required
      - `source` string, required
      - `embeddingModel` string, required
    - `rank` number, required
  - `meta` object, required
    - `page` integer, required
    - `limit` integer, required
    - `total` integer, required
    - `totalPages` integer, required

## Other responses

- `400` — Invalid search query
- `500` — Internal server error

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[API](https://skmtc.net/urantia/apis/urantia-papers-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.net/urantia/apis/urantia-papers-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-staging.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/urantia/urantia-papers-api/versions/fc43de3e7ffc/schema)