Search API | Search as a Service

Search API

Crawling API

SeekStorm is a Search as a Service.
Our search API offers web-scale, real-time, full text, instant search for your data and documents.

Your organization has millions or billions of documents, at different locations, with thousands of concurrent users who need results within milliseconds, reflecting the latest changes in real-time? Add our turn-key search solution to your application with just two lines of code. Provide the documents or data you want to index via REST search API, and search them instantly in real-time. Don't worry about scalability and performance, we do all the heavy lifting for you.

Spelling Correction

Extremely fast automatic spelling correction for queries

Auto Completion

While typing a list of matching suggestions is returned from a self-learning dictionary

Instant Search

Queries are automatically completed and results are returned while typing

True Real-time Search

When a document is indexed it is instantly searchable in real-time

Boolean search

AND, NOT, PHRASE, Implicit PHRASE and field filter operators

Dynamic Sorting

Define sort order of results at query time by rank and facet fields

Custom Ranking

Combine (tie-break) key word matching rank and any number of facet fields

Boost

Promote documents for certain keywords and pin them above all other results

Field Filtering

Search in all or only in selected fields

Value & Range Faceting

Counting, filtering and sorting of documents matching values or ranges

Grouping & Distinct

Top-k results with the same field value are grouped together

KWIC

Keyword in Context summaries increase perceived relevancy

Web-scale Index

Real-time indexing and instant search for virtually unlimited index size (up to 100 TB)

Language Independent

Supports any UTF-8 text, including Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and CJK-languages

Scoped API Keys

Full and query-only API keys for different scope of usage

RESTful API with CORS

Powerful, yet concise API allows to rapidly add search to your applications

SeekStorm is a Crawler as a Service.
A high-performance, focused crawler turns any website into JSON docs with structured data

You want to add site search to any website, extract data from the internet for data science, make the web searchable for competition & trademark monitoring, threat alerts, or information intelligence? You need a web scraper to monitor official gazettes and for web scraping public listings? Don't worry about scalability and performance, we do all the heavy lifting for you.

Crawler & Scraper

High-performance crawling and indexing - thousand documents per second

Url filter

Focused crawling reduces crawling cost, index size and query latency

Definable user agent

For mobile and desktop content and for blocking circumvention

Polite Crawler

Definable politeness time between page fetches per domain

Multi-threaded

Definable number of concurrent page fetches per domain

Definable timeout

Optimize the trade-off between performance and reliability

Definable recrawl time

Definable recrawl/revisit time: Discover new content as it appears

Boilerplate removal

Key text extraction: extract pure content & discard navigation & ads

Structured data

Extraction e.g. author & date from schema.org and Open Graph protocol

Auxilary data fields

Auxiliary fields may be added to each crawled document before indexing

RESTful API with CORS

Powerful, yet concise APIallows to rapidly implement search into you products

Language Independent

Supports any UTF-8 text, including Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic and CJK-languages

More information on Search API features and Search API use cases, our Search as a service architecture and our REST API documentation.

Read our quick start guide on how to create a SeekStorm account and project. Learn how to use dashboard and REST API to index and query documents.