---
title: "Unified Search Across All Game Data"
method: GET
path: "/api/search"
tags: ["Search"]
---

# Unified Search Across All Game Data

`GET /api/search`

Search across items, vehicles, starmap locations, commodities, blueprints, and missions simultaneously. Returns results grouped by type, limited to 5 results per group.

## Query parameters

- `filter[query]` string, required
- `version` string

## Response `200`

Grouped search results

- object
  - `data` object[]
    - `type` string
    - `label` string
    - `results` object[]
      - `name` string
      - `class_name` string, nullable
      - `classification` string, nullable
      - `classification_label` string, nullable
      - `item_type_label` string, nullable
      - `extra_label` string, nullable
      - `web_url` string
      - `api_url` string

## Other responses

- `422` — Validation error - filter[query] is required and must be at least 3 characters
- `429` — Rate limit exceeded. Search endpoints are limited to 60 requests per minute per IP.

## Changes

- **2026-07-17** `8b259bb9a44c` — 1 info
  - for the `query` request parameter `filter[query]`, the minLength was decreased from `3` to `2`
- **2026-06-13** `e84a124c7fe1` — 1 breaking
  - for the `query` request parameter `filter[query]`, the minLength was increased from `2` to `3`
- **2026-05-21** `af03a6ba771d` — 3 info
  - api operation id `69cac0354375bc4ac499a9110b6914be` removed and replaced with `searchGameData`
  - added the media type `application/json` for the response with the status `422`
  - added the non-success response with the status `429`
- **2026-04-25** `5cd81baa02cb` — 2 info
  - added the optional property `data/items/results/items/extra_label` to the response with the `200` status
  - added the optional property `data/items/results/items/item_type_label` to the response with the `200` status
- **2026-04-25** `3a87c8145779` — 1 info
  - endpoint added

[Full history](https://skmtc.dev/starcitizenwiki/apis/star-citizen-wiki-api/changes/api/search/get.md)

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