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LexisNexis Web Services API: Build and Test Searches

Information about accessing and using the LexisNexis Web Services API (WSAPI)

Build and Test Searches

Users should use the Web Services API User Interface (UI) to build and test their API requests without impacting Stanford’s annual search/documents quotas.

  • To build and test a request, select News and Directories and then News or Legal News.

 

Test searches by selecting News and Directories, and then either News or Legal News

 

  • Using the search interface, you can generate a GET request and preview the results of that request.

 

Web Services API User Interface Sample Search

Enter search terms.

➋ Specify order in which results are returned.

➌ Search creates GET request.

Preview results.

 

  • From the Expand menu, select Document in order to return the full-text of the documents.

 

Expand Document to search for full-text

 

  • From the Expand menu, select PostFilters to see other parameters by which to filter results. These parameters will appear on the left-hand side of the page, next to the results preview.

 

Select PostFilters

View PostFilters