RESTful

Search

Conducts a similarity search in a collection.

POST

https://${MILVUS_HOST}:${MILVUS_PORT}/v1/vector/search

Example

Search entities based on a given vector:

curl --request POST \
     --url "${MILVUS_HOST}:${MILVUS_PORT}/v1/vector/search" \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
     --header "accept: application/json" \
     --header "content-type: application/json" \
     -d '{
        "collectionName": "medium_articles",
        "vector": [0.4882628, 0.85768371, 0.48556888, 0.9681036, 0.94807827, 0.80656861, 0.72123286, 0.81810534, 0.83713905, 0.73258409, 0.97732714, 0.09869599, 0.83189308, 0.33537219, 0.88647192, 0.66132137, 0.703723, 0.34379603, 0.74785059, 0.84559156, 0.65074354, 0.61864253, 0.73546132, 0.84872955, 0.6006182, 0.04830389, 0.37780669, 0.96101751, 0.22319285, 0.88504273, 0.44813016, 0.69746754, 0.5707871, 0.37386075, 0.25382573, 0.42397712, 0.89749552, 0.39729882, 0.38485115, 0.12583234, 0.47243267, 0.74576701, 0.45814588, 0.88024839, 0.72812605, 0.6622232, 0.31803479, 0.74101011, 0.76141925, 0.5024863, 0.47431501, 0.40002184, 0.45752955, 0.54383915, 0.67569667, 0.52164475, 0.33647519, 0.93068322, 0.65766685, 0.95959175, 0.83665213, 0.1753687, 0.27341319, 0.34550907, 0.79669369, 0.95065082, 0.30838918, 0.79784458, 0.37323557, 0.97728813, 0.11170225, 0.87876854, 0.85212036, 0.88599461, 0.76916602, 0.6094099, 0.4427332, 0.87373443, 0.18576099, 0.81970137, 0.74932009, 0.92106027, 0.76417889, 0.35671825, 0.09990157, 0.14570871, 0.43084067, 0.30551776, 0.63985873, 0.45777184, 0.16172334, 0.32226743, 0.27613814, 0.18182943, 0.7019827, 0.45446168, 0.31359211, 0.17426952, 0.19392872, 0.59816543, 0.31679765, 0.60059089, 0.92800561, 0.95165562, 0.55177484, 0.49510178, 0.60250447, 0.1519485, 0.33565446, 0.92865767, 0.86723503, 0.85392181, 0.85337828, 0.01631286, 0.25257909, 0.00124323, 0.59344951, 0.78468014, 0.61854741, 0.61980932, 0.87467147, 0.44361724, 0.97777631, 0.42543721, 0.5290862, 0.12384163, 0.45287003, 0.30333621, 0.10408064, 0.71930918, 0.90741917, 0.09838064, 0.66319033, 0.08133113, 0.30527365, 0.40877414, 0.11552966, 0.76451148, 0.00529968, 0.76741598, 0.90358724, 0.05710312, 0.32659557, 0.66143926, 0.3258203, 0.62721598, 0.18690116, 0.00184847, 0.11355109, 0.33962499, 0.64671448, 0.67297271, 0.02416349, 0.3173442, 0.54041374, 0.33752188, 0.75654937, 0.08236666, 0.40054276, 0.1021504, 0.20874325, 0.75615835, 0.54953906, 0.44659766, 0.16064502, 0.58682242, 0.15547067, 0.57503622, 0.07797247, 0.1559962, 0.94815864, 0.12474807, 0.0999395, 0.85504252, 0.55633022, 0.56959553, 0.75966109, 0.70444125, 0.66884798, 0.81692129, 0.06837097, 0.9714623, 0.86751075, 0.42125912, 0.44367403, 0.49978621, 0.32267559, 0.67220653, 0.56167557, 0.25248436, 0.94191099, 0.71508807, 0.64564731, 0.56824345, 0.29187781, 0.93961505, 0.28196959, 0.92713673, 0.7256734, 0.51042292, 0.81504509, 0.55849401, 0.19380059, 0.46767559, 0.52275063, 0.66075204, 0.97290358, 0.57524932, 0.7219121, 0.85188581, 0.26220385, 0.75686621, 0.51934907, 0.185452, 0.49708297, 0.95783663, 0.61397962, 0.45956795, 0.49311061, 0.49464425, 0.43094667, 0.76768303, 0.29252745, 0.57964633, 0.72950803, 0.94616381, 0.60436868, 0.47828997, 0.90345857, 0.92971537, 0.64784105, 0.18095567, 0.94852017, 0.05224637, 0.50829763, 0.89020778, 0.008269, 0.9500583, 0.20305412, 0.21179052, 0.28443536, 0.39540241, 0.20286982, 0.30968133, 0.2141927, 0.4390286, 0.12686093, 0.59583271, 0.88270185, 0.28187656, 0.90096987, 0.29104497, 0.38480562, 0.40069773, 0.52293091, 0.37621525]
      }'

Search entities and return specific fields:

curl --request POST \
     --url "${MILVUS_HOST}:${MILVUS_PORT}/v1/vector/search" \
     --header "Authorization: Bearer ${TOKEN}" \
     --header "accept: application/json" \
     --header "content-type: application/json" \
     -d '{
       "collectionName": "medium_articles",
       "outputFields": ["id", "title", "link", "distance"],
       "vector": [0.4882628, 0.85768371, 0.48556888, 0.9681036, 0.94807827, 0.80656861, 0.72123286, 0.81810534, 0.83713905, 0.73258409, 0.97732714, 0.09869599, 0.83189308, 0.33537219, 0.88647192, 0.66132137, 0.703723, 0.34379603, 0.74785059, 0.84559156, 0.65074354, 0.61864253, 0.73546132, 0.84872955, 0.6006182, 0.04830389, 0.37780669, 0.96101751, 0.22319285, 0.88504273, 0.44813016, 0.69746754, 0.5707871, 0.37386075, 0.25382573, 0.42397712, 0.89749552, 0.39729882, 0.38485115, 0.12583234, 0.47243267, 0.74576701, 0.45814588, 0.88024839, 0.72812605, 0.6622232, 0.31803479, 0.74101011, 0.76141925, 0.5024863, 0.47431501, 0.40002184, 0.45752955, 0.54383915, 0.67569667, 0.52164475, 0.33647519, 0.93068322, 0.65766685, 0.95959175, 0.83665213, 0.1753687, 0.27341319, 0.34550907, 0.79669369, 0.95065082, 0.30838918, 0.79784458, 0.37323557, 0.97728813, 0.11170225, 0.87876854, 0.85212036, 0.88599461, 0.76916602, 0.6094099, 0.4427332, 0.87373443, 0.18576099, 0.81970137, 0.74932009, 0.92106027, 0.76417889, 0.35671825, 0.09990157, 0.14570871, 0.43084067, 0.30551776, 0.63985873, 0.45777184, 0.16172334, 0.32226743, 0.27613814, 0.18182943, 0.7019827, 0.45446168, 0.31359211, 0.17426952, 0.19392872, 0.59816543, 0.31679765, 0.60059089, 0.92800561, 0.95165562, 0.55177484, 0.49510178, 0.60250447, 0.1519485, 0.33565446, 0.92865767, 0.86723503, 0.85392181, 0.85337828, 0.01631286, 0.25257909, 0.00124323, 0.59344951, 0.78468014, 0.61854741, 0.61980932, 0.87467147, 0.44361724, 0.97777631, 0.42543721, 0.5290862, 0.12384163, 0.45287003, 0.30333621, 0.10408064, 0.71930918, 0.90741917, 0.09838064, 0.66319033, 0.08133113, 0.30527365, 0.40877414, 0.11552966, 0.76451148, 0.00529968, 0.76741598, 0.90358724, 0.05710312, 0.32659557, 0.66143926, 0.3258203, 0.62721598, 0.18690116, 0.00184847, 0.11355109, 0.33962499, 0.64671448, 0.67297271, 0.02416349, 0.3173442, 0.54041374, 0.33752188, 0.75654937, 0.08236666, 0.40054276, 0.1021504, 0.20874325, 0.75615835, 0.54953906, 0.44659766, 0.16064502, 0.58682242, 0.15547067, 0.57503622, 0.07797247, 0.1559962, 0.94815864, 0.12474807, 0.0999395, 0.85504252, 0.55633022, 0.56959553, 0.75966109, 0.70444125, 0.66884798, 0.81692129, 0.06837097, 0.9714623, 0.86751075, 0.42125912, 0.44367403, 0.49978621, 0.32267559, 0.67220653, 0.56167557, 0.25248436, 0.94191099, 0.71508807, 0.64564731, 0.56824345, 0.29187781, 0.93961505, 0.28196959, 0.92713673, 0.7256734, 0.51042292, 0.81504509, 0.55849401, 0.19380059, 0.46767559, 0.52275063, 0.66075204, 0.97290358, 0.57524932, 0.7219121, 0.85188581, 0.26220385, 0.75686621, 0.51934907, 0.185452, 0.49708297, 0.95783663, 0.61397962, 0.45956795, 0.49311061, 0.49464425, 0.43094667, 0.76768303, 0.29252745, 0.57964633, 0.72950803, 0.94616381, 0.60436868, 0.47828997, 0.90345857, 0.92971537, 0.64784105, 0.18095567, 0.94852017, 0.05224637, 0.50829763, 0.89020778, 0.008269, 0.9500583, 0.20305412, 0.21179052, 0.28443536, 0.39540241, 0.20286982, 0.30968133, 0.2141927, 0.4390286, 0.12686093, 0.59583271, 0.88270185, 0.28187656, 0.90096987, 0.29104497, 0.38480562, 0.40069773, 0.52293091, 0.37621525],
       "filter": "id in [443300716234671427, 443300716234671426]",
       "limit": 100,
       "offset": 0
     }'

Request

Parameters

No query parameters required
No path parameters required

Request Body

{
    "collectionName": "string",
    "filter": "string",
    "limit": "integer",
    "offset": "integer",
    "outputFields": [],
    "vector": []
}

Parameter	Description
`collectionName`	string(required) The name of the collection to which this operation applies.
`filter`	string The filter used to find matches for the search
`limit`	integer The maximum number of entities to return. The sum of this value of that of `offset` should be less than 1024. The value defaults to 100. The value ranges from 1 to 100.
`offset`	integer The number of entities to skip in the search results. The sum of this value and that of `limit` should not be greater than 1024. The maximum value is 1024.
`outputFields`	array An array of fields to return along with the search results.
`vector`	array (number [float32])(required) The query vector in the form of a list of floating numbers.

Response

Returns the search results.

Response Bodies

Response body if we process your request successfully

{
    "code": 200,
    "data": {}
}

Response body if we failed to process your request

{
    "code": integer,
    "message": string
}

Properties

The properties in the returned response are listed in the following table.

Property	Description
`code`	integer Indicates whether the request succeeds. `200`: The request succeeds. Others: Some error occurs.
`data`	array A data array of objects.
`message`	string Indicates the possible reason for the reported error.

Possible Errors

Error Code	Description
800	database not found
1800	user hasn't authenticate
1801	can only accept json format request
1802	missing required parameters
1805	fail to parse search result

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