Search API
API Guide
What is it?
The Second Life Search API allows you to search the virtual world of Second Life for Events, Groups, People, Places, and this Wiki .
Getting Started
The Second Life Search API is currently using a Google search appliance as the core of the API. You can search against the world using a standard web browser. Two URL's may be used as follows:
http://search.secondlife.com/client_search.php?q=Your_text_here http://secondlife.com/app/search/search_proxy.php?q=Your_text_here
Paging
Each query will return 10 results at the most. The parameter passed for paging is "start". This is a zero-based index identifying what record to start with. To view page 1, the following URL may be used.
q= [search for something here] &start= [(page - 1) * 10]
Page 1 http://search.secondlife.com/client_search.php?q=Your_text_here&start=0
Page 2 http://search.secondlife.com/client_search.php?q=Your_text_here&start=10
Page 3 http://search.secondlife.com/client_search.php?q=Your_text_here&start=20
Note Any results after page 100 will return nothing.
t - n - Guessing teen grid. Teen = Y, Adult = N. Without proper session, defaults to N?
session - 00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000 - session of avatar looking at results. changes with each login.
x - position of avatar on X axis
y - position of avatar on Y axis
z - position of avatar on Z axis
m - n - Y = Mature, N = PG
region - name of current region avatar is occupying
s - filter results by category - All, Events, Groups, People, Places, Wiki
lang - Language for user interface. en-us is English for United States.
start - 0 - first row to start at (zero based index) site - default_collection - not sure. guessing might be "All" type of search. hl - en - language lr - unknown ie - UTF-8 - text encoding output - xml_no_dtd - xml results from appliance client - raw_xml_frontend - transform into xml results for user agent access - p - unknown sort - date:D:L:d1 - sort by date, lindens, object date? sa - N - unknown filter - 0 - unknown dbg - 0 - debug information?
Host: search.secondlife.com
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