# discourse\_api search broken
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 21, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798 "2015-04-21T13:29:43Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@oganer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oganer)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 1:29pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798/1 "2015-04-21T13:29:43Z")
Hi, while testing search feature found that search method in discourse\_api doesn’t work. It’s make requests to `/search.json?term=x` but seems it’s wrong. The corrects ways is `/search?search=x` or may be `/search/query?term=x` right?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 1:46pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798/2 "2015-04-21T13:46:51Z")
looks like the api gem is out of date, can you send through a PR change it over to `/search/query`
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### Author:  [@oganer](https://meta.discourse.org/u/oganer)
#### Post date: [April 21, 2015, 4:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798/3 "2015-04-21T16:54:09Z")
Hmmm, i’ve pushed some changes before, which allowed me to request topics by tags.
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-official-discourse-tags-plugin-discourse-tagging/26482/29?u=oganer](https://meta.discourse.org/t/the-official-discourse-tags-plugin-discourse-tagging/26482/29)
By the way i can suggest this changes.
[https://github.com/discourse/discourse\_api/pull/74](https://github.com/discourse/discourse_api/pull/74)
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### Author:  [@erik\_chan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erik_chan)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2015, 11:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798/4 "2015-09-10T23:42:43Z")
No wonder I couldn’t get it to return anything remotely useful 😵
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2015, 11:47pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798/5 "2015-09-10T23:47:32Z")
@techAPJ can you add to your list?
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### Author:  [@erik\_chan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erik_chan)
#### Post date: [September 10, 2015, 11:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798/6 "2015-09-10T23:51:38Z")
> [@sam](#):
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> @techAPJ can you add to your list?
It looks like it has already been changed to `/search/query`? But its still faulty, always returns `{"grouped_search_result"=>nil}`
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [September 12, 2015, 6:10pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798/7 "2015-09-12T18:10:45Z")
Saerching via API is working fine for me. Just added this example search script and results are as expected..
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### Author:  [@erik\_chan](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erik_chan)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2015, 3:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798/8 "2015-09-13T15:52:02Z")
Finally found the problem on my side, this is what I have to do to make it show something useful
client.search(“discourse”, q={} )
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### Author:  [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [September 13, 2015, 4:07pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/discourse-api-search-broken/27798/9 "2015-09-13T16:07:41Z")