Web Services

For complete control over the search results, you can query your index using our web services interface. Web services are a standardized way of integrating web applications together, using technology such as XML, SOAP and WDSL. This allows our services to be consumed by any language on any operating system.

You can try our web service search out, our API powers our web site search.

Basic Search

This service performs a search against your index, with the following parameters:

Parameter Description
clientId Your unique identifier supplied by Aspect Search
searchTerm The words to search the index
pageSize The number of records to show on one page
pageNumber The current page number used to offset the results

Advanced Search

This search service is exactly the same as the one above except there is an additional parameter for boolean searches. This allows you to choose whether ALL words, or ANY words, or EXACT words should be matched.

Parameter Description
booleanOperator
  • AnyWords - any of the words are matched
  • AllWords - all words of the search must be matched
  • ExactPhrase - all words in the supplied order must be matched

Generate Google Sitemap

This service will generate an xml document of all your pages on your site using the specification from Google sitemap's.

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