> For the complete documentation index, see [llms.txt](https://docs.trilio.io/openstack/llms.txt). Markdown versions of documentation pages are available by appending `.md` to page URLs; this page is available as [Markdown](https://docs.trilio.io/openstack/t4o-4.3/api-guide/file-search.md).

# File Search

## Start File Search

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://$(tvm_address):8780/v1/$(tenant_id)/search`

Starts a File Search with the given parameters

#### Path Parameters

| Name         | Type   | Description                                   |
| ------------ | ------ | --------------------------------------------- |
| tvm\_address | string | IP or FQDN of Trilio service                  |
| tenant\_id   | string | ID of the Tenant/Project to run the search in |

#### Headers

| Name              | Type   | Description                     |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------------------------------- |
| X-Auth-Project-Id | string | Project to authenticate against |
| X-Auth-Token      | string | Authentication token to use     |
| Content-Type      | string | application/json                |
| Accept            | string | application/json                |
| User-Agent        | string | python-workloadmgrclient        |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 File Search has been started. Response contains File Search ID needed to fetch results." %}

```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.16.1
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2020 13:23:25 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 244
Connection: keep-alive
X-Compute-Request-Id: req-bdfd3fb8-5cbf-4108-885f-63160426b2fa

{
   "file_search":{
      "created_at":"2020-11-09T13:23:25.698534",
      "updated_at":null,
      "id":14,
      "deleted_at":null,
      "status":"executing",
      "error_msg":null,
      "filepath":"/etc/h*",
      "json_resp":null,
      "vm_id":"08dab61c-6efd-44d3-a9ed-8e789d338c1b"
   }
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### Body format

```
{
   "file_search":{
      "start":<Integer>,
      "end":<Integer>,
      "filepath":"<Reg-Ex String>",
      "date_from":<Date Format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS>,
      "date_to":<Date Format: YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS>,
      "snapshot_ids":[
         "<Snapshot-ID>"
      ],
      "vm_id":"<VM-ID>"
   }
}
```

## Get File Search Results

<mark style="color:green;">`POST`</mark> `https://$(tvm_address):8780/v1/$(tenant_id)/search/<search_id>`

Starts a filesearch with the given parameters

#### Path Parameters

| Name         | Type   | Description                                   |
| ------------ | ------ | --------------------------------------------- |
| tvm\_address | string | IP or FQDN of Trilio Service                  |
| tenant\_id   | string | ID of the Tenant/Project to run the search in |
| search\_id   | string | ID of the File Search to get                  |

#### Headers

| Name              | Type   | Description                     |
| ----------------- | ------ | ------------------------------- |
| X-Auth-Project-Id | string | Project to authenticate against |
| X-Auth-Token      | string | Authentication token to use     |
| Accept            | string | application/json                |
| User-Agent        | string | python-workloadmgrclient        |

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="200 " %}

```
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Server: nginx/1.16.1
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 2020 13:24:28 GMT
Content-Type: application/json
Content-Length: 819
Connection: keep-alive
X-Compute-Request-Id: req-d57bea9a-9968-4357-8743-e0b906466063

{
   "file_search":{
      "created_at":"2020-11-09T13:23:25.000000",
      "updated_at":"2020-11-09T13:23:48.000000",
      "id":14,
      "deleted_at":null,
      "status":"completed",
      "error_msg":null,
      "filepath":"/etc/h*",
      "json_resp":"[
                      {
                         "ed4f29e8-7544-4e1c-af8a-a76031211926":[
                            {
                               "/dev/vda1":[
                                  "/etc/hostname",
                                  "/etc/hosts"
                               ],
                               "/etc/hostname":{
                                  "dev":"2049",
                                  "ino":"32",
                                  "mode":"33204",
                                  "nlink":"1",
                                  "uid":"0",
                                  "gid":"0",
                                  "rdev":"0",
                                  "size":"1",
                                  "blksize":"1024",
                                  "blocks":"2",
                                  "atime":"1603455255",
                                  "mtime":"1603455255",
                                  "ctime":"1603455255"
                               },
                               "/etc/hosts":{
                                  "dev":"2049",
                                  "ino":"127",
                                  "mode":"33204",
                                  "nlink":"1",
                                  "uid":"0",
                                  "gid":"0",
                                  "rdev":"0",
                                  "size":"37",
                                  "blksize":"1024",
                                  "blocks":"2",
                                  "atime":"1603455257",
                                  "mtime":"1431011050",
                                  "ctime":"1431017172"
                               }
                            }
                         ]
                      }
                  ]",
      "vm_id":"08dab61c-6efd-44d3-a9ed-8e789d338c1b"
   }
}
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}


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