Search data API

Table of Contents

Supported operations
Required permissions
Search query
- Components of a search query
- Functional limitations
How to search data using the API
- Determine the GUID of the data source
- Run the search query
Search data API reference

To construct a search query string and retrieve data from ThoughtSpot programmatically, use the /tspublic/v1/searchdata REST API.

Supported operations🔗

API endpoint Available from

API endpoint	Available from
`POST /tspublic/v1/searchdata` Allows searching for data from a specific data source in the ThoughtSpot application.	ThoughtSpot Cloud ts7.april.cl ThoughtSpot Software 6.0.x

POST /tspublic/v1/searchdata
Allows searching for data from a specific data source in the ThoughtSpot application.

ThoughtSpot Cloud ts7.april.cl
ThoughtSpot Software 6.0.x

Required permissions🔗

You must have view access to the data source objects to run a search query.

Search query🔗

When issuing a query through the ThoughtSpot UI, users make selections to disambiguate a query. It is often difficult to programmatically use the result set of a query that runs in the ThoughtSpot UI search bar. Because the selection is not possible with an API approach, the API query language is modified to include query disambiguation.

Components of a search query🔗

In ThoughtSpot Query Language, the components of a query are classified into various types of tokens:

Column
Operator
Value
Date Bucket
Keyword
Calendar

Column

Columns must be enclosed in square brackets, [ ].

For example, in the query revenue by ship mode, both revenue and ship mode are columns. A valid query for the API is:

[revenue] by [ship mode]

Operator

ThoughtSpot supports various operators such as =, !=, >, >=, <=, <, contains, not contains, and so on. Use these operators in the API query in the same manner as in the UI.

For example, specify revenue over 1000, and limit ship mode to 'air':

[revenue] > 1000 [ship mode] = 'air'

Value

String (text) and date values must be enclosed within quotes, ''. Do not use quotes for numeric values, except for dates.

When using multiple values, separate them by a comma.

For example, when a ThoughtSpot UI query is revenue top 2 ship mode, the equivalent API query is:

[revenue] top 2 [ship mode]

For example, when a ThoughtSpot UI query is revenue ship mode = air, the equivalent API query is:

[revenue] [ship mode] = 'air'

Date Bucket

In the ThoughtSpot UI, when there are several date columns, users can bind date bucket tokens to a specific column. When using the API, this binding between the date column and the date bucket must be made explicit. Use a period to separate the column with which the date bucket is bound, and the date bucket token.

Single word date buckets can be expressed as is. Multi-word date buckets must be enclosed within quotes.

For example, when a ThoughtSpot UI query is revenue commit date monthly, and if monthly is bound to commit date, the equivalent API query is:

[revenue] [commit date].monthly

When a ThoughtSpot UI query is revenue day of week = 5, and if day of week is bound to commit date, the equivalent API query is as follows:

[revenue] [commit date].'day of week' = 5

Keyword

Use keywords in the API query in the same manner as in the UI.

For example, when a ThoughtSpot UI query uses keywords growth of and sort by, the equivalent API query is as follows:

growth of [revenue] by [commit date]

Calendar

You can specify a custom calendar in the query. Use the calendar.calendar_name format explicitly.

When the calendar name contains multiple words, enclose these words in single quotes.

For example, when a ThoughtSpot UI query is revenue by commit date fiscal, where the name of the calendar is fiscal, the equivalent API query is as follows:

[revenue] by [commit date] calendar.fiscal

For example, when a ThoughtSpot UI query is revenue by commit date my calendar, where the name of the calendar is my calendar, the equivalent API query is:

[revenue] by [commit date] calendar.'my calendar'

Functional limitations🔗

To avoid join path ambiguities, a query can use only a single data source.
Search execution of query strings is not case-sensitive.
All column names in the data source must have unique names and must pass the case-insensitivity test.

For example, Columns [Revenue] and [revenue] are not unique.
Column names cannot contain square brackets, [ or ].
Values must be enclosed in quotes, ‘’, but they cannot contain quotes.
The API does not support in-query formula definitions. To use a formula, create it on the Worksheet or a table using the ThoughtSpot UI, and then use the named formula inside the API query.
Users must be authenticated and have read access to the data source.
Your browser locale must be en-US. Swagger does not accept other variations of English, such as British English, or other languages. Your search keywords must also be in American English. Your column names and other data values do not need to be in American English. You can change your preferred locale to en-US in your browser settings.

How to search data using the API🔗

To query data using the API, follow these steps:

Determine the GUID of the data source🔗

To find the GUID of the Model, View, or Table, use one of the following methods:

Get data object GUID via API

Send an API request to the /api/rest/2.0/metadata/search v2 API endpoint with the following parameters in the metadata array:

Example

 "metadata": [
    {
      "identifier": "my_data_model",
      "type": "LOGICAL_TABLE"
    }
  ]

If you don’t know the exact name of the data source object, specify the metadata type as LOGICAL_TABLE in your API request, and then copy the GUID of the data object from the API response.

Find the GUID of the data object via UI

Navigate to Data.

https://<your-thoughtspot-instance>/#/data/tables/

On the Data > Home page, select the data object. For example, if the data source object is a Model, click Models and then open the Model.
In the address bar of the web browser, note the GUID of the data source object. For example, in the following address string, the GUID is 9d93a6b8-ca3a-4146-a1a1-e908b71b963f:
```
https://<your-thoughtspot-instance>/#/data/tables/9d93a6b8-ca3a-4146-a1a1-e908b71b963f
```
Copy the GUID.

Run the search query🔗

In another browser, navigate to the following address:

https://<your-thoughtspot-instance>/external/swagger/#!/tspublic%2Fv1/searchData

Click POST /tspublic/v1/searchdata
Specify values for request parameters. For more information, see Search data API reference.
Click Try it out, and note the results.

You can also verify if the query returns the same data when you run it in the ThoughtSpot UI search bar (with slightly different syntax).

Search data API reference🔗

Note	The search data API allows you to pass the search query string as query parameters in the URL. Therefore, ThoughtSpot recommends that you append the query string to the URL, instead of using the `-d <data>` option to pass these parameters in your cURL requests.

Browser locale🔗

The search data API supports the search query string or keywords in en-US language only. Due to this, your browser locale must be set to en-US for a successful API call. ThoughtSpot recommends that you set the locale to en-US in the HTTP header request.

Accept-Language: en-US

When making REST API call from a browser, you can set the Accept-Language header directly to override the browser locale for that request.

// Using XMLHttpRequest
var xhr = XMLHttpRequest();
xhr.setRequestHeader('Accept-Language', 'en-US');
// ...

// Using Fetch
const fetchOptions = {
    method: 'POST',
    headers: {
      'Accept-Language': 'en-US',
      'Content-Type': 'application/json',
      // ...
    },
    // ...
}

Resource URL🔗

POST /tspublic/v1/searchdata

Request parameters🔗

Query parameter Description

Query parameter	Description
`query_string`	String. The data search query string. For more information, see Components of a search query.
`data_source_guid`	String. The GUID of the data source, either a Model, a View, or a table.
`batchsize`	Integer. The batch size for loading search objects. The system default is -1.
`pagenumber`	Integer. An alternate way to set offset for the starting point of the search results returned from the query. The default value is `-1`. `indexingOffset = (pageNumber - 1) * batchSize`
`offset`	Integer. Attribute to offset the starting point of the search results returned from the query. Specify a 1-based offset. The default value is `-1`.
`formattype`	String. The format of the data. Valid values are `COMPACT` or `FULL` JSON. The default value is `COMPACT`.

query_string

String. The data search query string. For more information, see Components of a search query.

data_source_guid

String. The GUID of the data source, either a Model, a View, or a table.

batchsize

Integer. The batch size for loading search objects.

The system default is -1.

pagenumber

Integer. An alternate way to set offset for the starting point of the search results returned from the query. The default value is -1.

indexingOffset = (pageNumber - 1) * batchSize

offset

Integer. Attribute to offset the starting point of the search results returned from the query. Specify a 1-based offset. The default value is -1.

formattype

String. The format of the data.

Valid values are COMPACT or FULL JSON. The default value is COMPACT.

Example requests🔗

cURL (COMPACT)

curl -X POST \
--header 'Accept-Language: en-US' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'X-Requested-By: ThoughtSpot' \
'https://{ThoughtSpot-Host}/callosum/v1/tspublic/v1/searchdata?query_string=%5Bsales%5D%20%5Bstore%20region%5D&data_source_guid=06517bd1-84c0-4bc6-bd09-f57af52e8316&batchsize=-1&pagenumber=-1&offset=-1&formattype=COMPACT'

cURL (FULL)

curl -X POST \
--header 'Accept-Language: en-US' \
--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \
--header 'Accept: application/json' \
--header 'X-Requested-By: ThoughtSpot' \
'https://{ThoughtSpot-Host}/callosum/v1/tspublic/v1/searchdata?query_string=%5Bsales%5D%20%5Bstore%20region%5D&data_source_guid=06517bd1-84c0-4bc6-bd09-f57af52e8316&batchsize=-1&pagenumber=-1&offset=-1&formattype=FULL’

Request URL (COMPACT)

https://{ThoughtSpot-Host}/callosum/v1/tspublic/v1/searchdata?query_string=%5Bsales%5D%20%5Bstore%20region%5D&data_source_guid=06517bd1-84c0-4bc6-bd09-f57af52e8316&batchsize=-1&pagenumber=-1&offset=-1&formattype=COMPACT

Request URL (FULL)

https://{ThoughtSpot-Host}/callosum/v1/tspublic/v1/searchdata?query_string=%5Bsales%5D%20%5Bstore%20region%5D&data_source_guid=06517bd1-84c0-4bc6-bd09-f57af52e8316&batchsize=-1&pagenumber=-1&offset=-1&formattype=FULL

Example response🔗

The data the API response contains four components:

The columnNames array that contains a list of all column headers.
The data array that contains a list of sub-arrays. Each sub-array represents a new row of data.
A sampling ratio.

The sampling ratio tells you the percentage of total data returned. A sampling ratio of 1 indicates that all the data in the Answer object was returned in the API response.

{
  "columnNames": [
    "Store Region",
    "Total Sales"
  ],
  "data": [
    [
      "east",
      18934491.05134509
    ],
    [
      "midwest",
      29157090.327609923
    ],
    [
      "south",
      25484693.074720126
    ],
    [
      "southwest",
      34241076.52103955
    ],
    [
      "west",
      30848491.458509445
    ]
  ],
  "samplingRatio": 1,
  "totalRowCount": 5,
  "rowCount": 5,
  "pageSize": 100000,
  "offset": 0
}

Response codes🔗

HTTP Code	Description
200	Successful retrieval of data from the data source
400	Invalid query/data source

HTTP Code

Description

200

Successful retrieval of data from the data source

400

Invalid query/data source