Analyze Text (Azure Search Service REST API)

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The Analyze API shows how an analyzer breaks text into tokens.

    POST https://[service name].search.windows.net/indexes/[index name]/analyze?api-version=[api-version]
    Content-Type: application/json
    api-key: [admin key]

Request

HTTPS is required for all services requests. The Analyze API request can be constructed using the POST method.

api-version=[string] (required). The current version is api-version=2016-09-01. See Search Service Versioning for details and alternative versions.

Request Headers

The following list describes the required and optional request headers.

Request Header	Description
api-key:	The `api-key` is used to authenticate the request to your Search service. It is a string value, unique to your service. The Analyze API request must include an `api-key` set to an admin key (as opposed to a query key).

You will also need the service name to construct the request URL. You can get the service name and api-key from your service dashboard in the Azure Preview Portal. See Create an Azure Search service in the portal for page navigation help.

Request Body

{
  "text": "Text to analyze",
  "analyzer": "analyzer_name"
}

{
  "text": "Text to analyze",
  "tokenizer": "tokenizer_name",
  "tokenFilters": (optional) [ "token_filter_name" ],
  "charFilters": (optional) [ "char_filter_name" ]
}

The analyzer_name, tokenizer_name, token_filter_name and char_filter_name need to be valid names of predefined or custom analyzers, tokenizers, token filters and char filters for the index. To learn more about the process of lexical analysis see Analysis in Azure Search.

Response

Status Code: 200 OK is returned for a successful response.

The response body is in the following format:

    {
      "tokens": [
        {
          "token": string (token),
          "startOffset": number (index of the first character of the token),
          "endOffset": number (index of the last character of the token),
          "position": number (position of the token in the input text)
        },
        ...
      ]
    }

Analyze API example

Request

     {
       "text": "Text to analyze",
       "analyzer": "standard"
     }

Response

     {
       "tokens": [
         {
           "token": "text",
           "startOffset": 0,
           "endOffset": 4,
           "position": 0
         },
         {
           "token": "to",
           "startOffset": 5,
           "endOffset": 7,
           "position": 1
         },
         {
           "token": "analyze",
           "startOffset": 8,
           "endOffset": 15,
           "position": 2
         }
       ]
     }

Tip

The Search Analyzer Demo provides side-by-side comparison of results produced by the standard Lucene analyzer, Lucene's English language analyzer, and Microsoft's English natural language processor. For each search input you provide, results from each analyzer are displayed in adjacent panes.