Smart Answers API

The SearchStax Site Search solution’s Smart Answers API offers AI-powered question-answering capabilities, integrated with Apache Solr for document retrieval. This service generates contextual answers to user queries by leveraging stored documents and AI processing.

GET <Smart Answers Endpoint>?q=<question>

GET <Smart Answers Endpoint>?q=<question>

The Smart Answers Endpoint is located on the Site Search > App Settings > All APIs > Search & Indexing screen.

This method uses Token authentication.

The method returns a streaming response with media type text/event-stream.

If the query is a question, the stream returns I_AM_A_QUESTION followed by the answer.
If the query is not a question, the stream returns I_AM_NOT_A_QUESTION

Example

This is a cURL example as sent from a Bash or PowerPoint command line:

curl -X GET \
  "https://search-ai-us.searchstax.com/api/v1/1234/answer/?q=What%20is%20solr&language=en&ignore_cache=true" \
  -H "authorization: Token <Read_Only_Token>" \
  -H "Accept: text/event-stream"

curl -X GET \
  "https://search-ai-us.searchstax.com/api/v1/1234/answer/?q=What%20is%20solr&language=en&ignore_cache=true" \
  -H "authorization: Token <Read_Only_Token>" \
  -H "Accept: text/event-stream"

Request Parameters

Parameter	Description
q required string	The user’s question
ignore_cache optional boolean	True or False, used to bypass cached answers.
<additional parameters> optional	Any additional parameters that are normally used by the Search API, like start, spellcheck, language, model, etc.

Questions?

Do not hesitate to contact the SearchStax Support Desk.