eT4® META - Search

Entry Point

Responsetype

Description

The search service returns the project data. You can use query language to filter the results and there are several methods for sorting.

The service can be accessed via HTTP GET and returns XML or JSON data.

Templates are used to specify the format of the results.

A search query can be defined for filtering. You can use various filters and combine them using boolean logic.

Parameters

Basic parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
experience	String	The experience specifies the name of the project data pool to be used. (obligatory)
licensekey	String	To access non-public projects (experiences) the license key must be specified.
template	String	The template determines the output format of the data and the desired version of the eT4®META schemas. (Default: ecMapsGeoRssFeed).
type	String	Used to specify the main content type/topic to search. Hotel, Event, Gastro, Tour, POI, City, Area, Package, Article or Web.
q	QuerySearchString	Search queries can be defined with the parameter Q, so that the amount of data returned is constrained. For more details see chapter Query Language - Introduction and Query Language - Prefixes.
sort	String	The result can be sorted via this parameter. See more details in the Query Language Introduction chapter.
mkt	String	This parameter determines the language in which the content is to be returned.(Default: de-DE)
limit	Integer	The number of returned records is limited to the specified value.
offset	Integer	The result list starts from the defined offset value.
facets	Boolean	If true, facets will be written into the result. (Default: false)

Map parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
nwlatitude	Double	North West latitude of the area of selection.
nwlongitude	Double	North West longitude in the area of selection.
selatitude	Double	South-East latitude in the selection area.
selongitude	Double	South-East longitude of the area of selection.

Sorting (GEO) parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
latitude	Double	Current position sorted by distance. Has to be combined with the longitude - parameter.
longitude	Double	Current position sorted by distance. Has to be combined with the latitude - parameter.
distance	Integer	Search: Distance in meters, for the results to be output. This parameter must be used in combination with the the latitude and longitude parameters.

Datetime parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
startdate	Date	Startdate of search. Has to be combined with the enddate - parameter.
enddate	Date	Enddate of search. Has to be combined with the startdate - parameter.

Expert parameters

Parameter	Type	Description
categoryOutputMode	String	Defines how the trees should be outputed (all, leafes, ...)
mode	String	Extended time-intervall-search (next-week, next-month, ...)
predefined	String	Use predefined searchquerys. Use TODO to get all predefined searchquerys.
request	JSON	Multirequest. Instead of post x search request, you can put all into one call.
unrollIntervals	Boolean	Unroll timeintervals to split up multiple occurrences of one item into several items. only valid with startdate, enddate and sort=start asc for chronological lists. See Sample
unique	Boolean	If set to true, duplicate object will be removed and only unique object will be rendered in the response.

Query Language

The integrated Query Language can be used to filter the result.

A full-text search and several Query prefixes are available, which can limit the result.

Most of these prefixes can be used for sorting.

By default the results are sorted by their relevance given the search query.

For a detailed explanation of the query parameter, see Query Language - Introduction.

For a collection of all available prefixes, look at Query Language - Prefixes.

Templatesamples

Samples

For more Samples, check out our eT4® META API Explorer