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 == Searching iDigBio ==
-While the iDigBio API does not currently support query/search capabilities, we do offer a public facing Elastic Search server which is used to implement the iDigBio Portal search.
+While iDigBio does not currently provide Search API endpoints to faciliate queries via the API, we do offer direct access to the Elasticsearch index servers. This is the same interface that is used by the iDigBio Portal search to query Elasticsearch.  Elasticsearch provides Lucene-style indexes for querying which return JSON formatted data.
-The Elastic Search server is located at:
+Direct queries to the iDigBio Elasticsearch service should be considered an Advanced operation.
-https://search.idigbio.org/
+The iDigBio Elasticsearch service is accessed via the base URL:
-This server provides a Lucene style index for querying which returns JSON formatted data:
+https://search.idigbio.org/
+The indexes provide two document types to query on; Records and Media Records.
-The index provides two document types to query on; Records and Media Records.
 Each type can be queried through the following respective URLs: