Search API : chaining items together

Carmendata

September 10, 2019 12:54

Hi there, 

 

Hopefully someone can help me as I can't seem to make sense of the results with this. 

Let's say this is a public_id of mine :

/review/abc/test/myimage.jpg

 

If I have the expression : resource_type:image AND folder:review 

I get no results. Even though there are results in review. The documentation implies to me that using the colon should match any part of the path. 

If I have the expression : resource_type:image AND folder:review/* 

That returns items in the review folder, great. 

But say I then want to add some further filters:

resource_type:image AND folder:review/* AND public_id:test 

now returns nothing.  I've tried various combinations with wildcards and not.

 

 Basically given these 2 images : 

/review/abc/test/myimage1.jpg

/review/abc/test2/myimage2.jpg

 

I want to be able to say something like

resource_type:image AND public_id:review/* AND public_id:abc AND public_id:test 

So it only brings back myimage1. I can't do review/abc/test because abc could appear in a different location in the folder structure. 

Hopefully that makes sense. 

 

 

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• Official comment

  

  Millie Axelrod

  October 22, 2019 11:29

  Hi,

  Currently we do not support search of subfolders via the API. Search of subfolders can be done via the main search box in Cloudinary's Media Library UI. 

  We have added this feature request to our Roadmap and will update this thread with any progress.

   
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  Shirly Manor

  September 11, 2019 22:20

  You can try our search API. For example:

  
  
  cloudinary.v2.search
  .expression('resource_type:image AND folder:review/* AND public_id:review/sample/dog*')
  .sort_by('public_id','desc')
  .max_results(30)
  .execute().then(result=>console.log(result));

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  Carmendata

  September 18, 2019 13:41

  Hi Shirly, given your example, say I don't know what subdirectory dog is in, all I know is its in review/ somewhere. How would you structure that ? 

  because I've tried

  resource_type:image AND folder:review/* AND public_id:*dog*

  resource_type:image AND folder:review/* AND public_id:review/*dog*

  Neither seem to work - or they disregard the folder part. 

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  Rinat Biton

  September 19, 2019 11:36 Edited

  Hi , 

  Here is a sample code : 

   

  resource_type:image AND folder=review/* AND filename:dog

   

  Hope that helps 

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  Carmendata

  October 18, 2019 14:23 Edited

  Hi there. Thanks for the feedback. However still struggling. I want to be able to do partial searches on public_id and folders. 

  This doesn't seem possible. 

  if I have a file path like /animal/mammal/dog/alife.jpg  . I just want to do a search where the folder or public id contains the word dog. I don't know path beforehand.

  folder:dog does not work public_id:dog does not work, folder:*dog* does not work public_id:*dog* does not work.

  According to the docs `folder:sample // any path that contains sample` this does not seem to be true. It seems to be any path that starts with sample. 

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