Extension:SearchParserFunction

The SearchParserFunction extension adds a parser function to search, format and display search results in wiki pages.

Basic usage
This will search for pages that contain "foo" (in their text) and return the results as a list of links, like so:


 * Foo
 * Bar
 * Baz

You can use all available search operators. For example, if you're using CirrusSearch:

See Help:CirrusSearch for all available search operators, or Help:Searching if you're not using CirrusSearch.

Note! The current page will be excluded from the search results.

Parameters

 * 1) search calls the Search API internally, so most of the parameters correspond to the API parameters (but without the "sr" prefix). Read the Search API documentation for more.


 * - Namespace to search, defaults to 0 (see namespace constants)
 * - Max number of results, either an integer or 'max', defaults to 10
 * - Number of results to skip, defaults to 0, useful to access results beyond the 'max' limit
 * - Ranking algorithm to use, defaults to let the engine decide
 * - Type of search to perform, either 'text', 'title' or 'nearmatch', defaults to 'text'
 * - Metadata to return, defaults to all
 * - Properties to return, defaults to all
 * - Include interwiki results in the search, if available
 * - Enable internal query rewriting, for example to correct spelling mistakes
 * - Sorting criteria, defaults to 'relevance'
 * - Format of the search results, defaults to 'list' (see below for more)

For example, to get the name of the latest file that has "foo" in the title:

List
Returns an unordered list (  ) of search results, linked to their pages. For example:


 * Foo
 * Bar
 * Baz

Count
Returns the total number of search results as a plain number.

Plain
Returns a comma-separated list of plain titles, for example:

Foo, Bar, Baz

This format is designed for further processing. For example, using the #arraymap function of Extension:PageForms:

This would output the search results one below the other and linked to their pages, like so:

Foo Bar Baz

JSON
Returns a JSON object for further processing, for example in a Lua module.

Note that this format returns the entire output from the Search API, not just the search results.

Template
Returns the search results wrapped in a template. All search result properties are passed on to the template and may be used or ignored. See the Search API documentation for the list of properties.

For example, if a template named "Search result" contains the following:



Then a query like the following:

Would output the following:

Foo Foo is a generic term widely used to refer to any computer entity whose name is unknown or does not want to be expressed. Bar Bar is also a generic term widely used to refer to any computer entity whose name is unknown or does not want to be expressed. Baz Baz is yet another generic term widely used to refer to any computer entity whose name is unknown or does not want to be expressed.

SearchParserFunctionQuery
Use this hook to customize the query to the Search API.

SearchParserFunctionOutput
Use this hook to add or modify search result formats.