# Search technical knowledge

POST

/

v1

/

search

Search technical knowledge

```
curl --request POST \
  --url https://leaves.mintlify.com/api/universal-search/v1/search \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>' \
  --header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  --data '
{
  "query": "Next.js 16 caching and revalidation",
  "numResults": 5,
  "text": {
    "maxCharacters": 4000
  },
  "includeDomains": [
    "nextjs.org"
  ]
}
'
```

:::code-group
```title="200"
{
  "requestId": "3d8ed0aa-c21c-4a18-b995-207aa6315ea8",
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "nextjs:/docs/app/getting-started/caching-and-revalidating",
      "url": "https://nextjs.org/docs/app/getting-started/caching-and-revalidating",
      "title": "Caching and revalidating",
      "text": "Caching is a technique for storing the result of data fetching and other computations.",
      "truncated": false,
      "totalCharacters": 92,
      "score": 0.91,
      "source": "mintlify",
      "siteName": "nextjs",
      "breadcrumbs": [
        "App Router",
        "Getting started"
      ],
      "publishedDate": null
    }
  ]
}
```

```title="400"
{
  "error": "Invalid request body"
}
```

```title="401"
{
  "error": "Unauthorized"
}
```

```title="403"
{
  "error": "IP address is not allowed for this API key"
}
```

```title="429"
{
  "error": "Rate limit exceeded. Please try again later"
}
```

```title="500"
{
  "error": "<string>"
}
```
:::

#### Authorizations

Authorization

string

header

required

Mintlify Index API key with the `mint_us_` prefix.

#### Body

application/json

query

string

required

Search query.

Minimum string length: `1`

numResults

integer

required

Maximum number of results to return.

Required range: `1 <= x <= 20`

text

default\:false

Controls result content. Set to `true` to include matched content, `false` to omit it, or provide `maxCharacters` to include truncated content. When omitted, defaults to `false`.

includeDomains

string\[]

Domains to include in search results.

Minimum array length: `1`

Minimum string length: `1`

excludeDomains

string\[]

Domains to exclude from search results.

Minimum array length: `1`

Minimum string length: `1`

#### Response

Search completed successfully.

requestId

string

required

Unique identifier for the request.

results

object\[]

required

Ranked search results.

:::accordion{title="Show child attributes"}
:::

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