Doing text search from within an app using the Monday.com search facility?

Hello. I wanted to look into developing an app based on the ideas board. Two of the ideas mention writing a Search and Replace app for boards and workdocs. I’ve also noticed that Monday.com already has a very powerful search facility that seems like an ideal starting point for doing a search and replace app.

Ideally there would be a way to extend the search facility, so I turned on the Chrome web developers tools to see what’s happening under the hood when we do a search on Monday.com. When it does a search it makes an XHR request of the form monday.com/search/cross_board?q=item.

This search endpoint is not officially mentioned on the API or SDK. My questions are:

  • Can we make use of an undocumented endpoint like the one mentioned above?
  • Will there be plans to extend the API to allow for a general search?
  • If no to the above questions, can I be cheeky and ask for the graphql and js code that is used to make the search facility work

Hello there @danielball and welcome to the community!

I hope you like it here :muscle:

Regarding your questions:

  1. The endpoint should not be used
  2. There are no such plans right now
  3. I checked with the team and we can not share that publicly

You can create a request here!

Let me know if you have any other questions!

Cheers,
Matias