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.
Location
When searching from the viewer, the location of the avatar is passed along to the Search API. This is optional. The coordinates do not appear to have any effect on the search results. They have the potential to show results based on your current location, (such as displaying nearby snapshots on Snapzilla). The following parameters are used.
| Parameter | Data type | Description |
| Region | string | Region name where avatar is located. |
| X | integer | Position of avatar in region coordinates on X axis |
| Y | integer | Position of avatar in region coordinates on Y axis |
| Z | integer | Position of avatar in region coordinates on Z axis |
http://search.secondlife.com/client_search.php?q=Your_text_here®ion=Here&x=128&y=128&z=36
Mature Content
By default, the Search API blocks mature content in its results. A parameter "m" may be specified to allow or block mature content. To allow mature content, the value should be "y" meaning "Yes". Blocking mature content will be "n" for "No".
PG Only http://search.secondlife.com/client_search.php?q=Your_text_here&m=n
PG & Mature http://search.secondlife.com/client_search.php?q=Your_text_here&m=y
Miscellaneous Information
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. s - filter results by category - All, Events, Groups, People, Places, Wiki lang - Language for user interface. en-us is English for United States.
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?
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