https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Javascript-SDK-Normal-Search-Use-return-instead-of-console-log/m-p/504386#M9031 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I have used the&nbsp;<SPAN>Search_normal.js example that runs a normal search,&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN>prints the job statistics and search results. How do I return the search results (instead of logging to console) so that I can pass the result data into another js file?</SPAN></P> <P>The code:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <LI-CODE lang="javascript">var splunkjs = require('splunk-sdk'); var Async = splunkjs.Async; exports.main = function(opts, callback) { opts = opts || {}; var username = opts.username || "*******"; var password = opts.password || "********"; var scheme = opts.scheme || "https"; var host = opts.host || "localhost"; var port = opts.port || "8089"; var version = opts.version || "default"; var service = new splunkjs.Service({ username: username, password: password, scheme: scheme, host: host, port: port, version: version }); Async.chain([ // Login function(done) { service.login(done); }, // Perform the search function(success, done) { if (!success) { done("Error logging in"); } service.search("search index=cog-censor-allow", {}, done); }, // Wait until the job is done function(job, done) { job.track({}, function(job) { // Ask the server for the results job.results({}, done); }); }, // Print out the statistics and get the results function(results, job, done) { // Print out the statistics /*console.log("Job Statistics: "); console.log(" Event Count: " + job.properties().eventCount); console.log(" Disk Usage: " + job.properties().diskUsage + " bytes"); console.log(" Priority: " + job.properties().priority);*/ // Find the index of the fields we want var rawIndex = results.fields.indexOf("_raw"); var sourcetypeIndex = results.fields.indexOf("sourcetype"); var userIndex = results.fields.indexOf("user"); // Print out each result and the key-value pairs we want console.log("Results: "); for(var i = 0; i &lt; results.rows.length; i++) { console.log(" Result " + i + ": "); console.log(" sourcetype: " + results.rows[i][sourcetypeIndex]); console.log(" user: " + results.rows[i][userIndex]); console.log(" _raw: " + results.rows[i][rawIndex]); } job.cancel(done); } ], function(err) { callback(err); } ); }; if (module === require.main) { exports.main({}, function() {}); }</LI-CODE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><SPAN>My example code is&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN>located in the&nbsp;</SPAN><STRONG>/splunk-sdk-javascript/examples/node</STRONG><SPAN>&nbsp;directory.&nbsp;<A href="https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/javascript/sdk-javascript/sdkjavascriptexamples/cmdlinedkjavascript" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/javascript/sdk-javascript/sdkjavascriptexamples/cmdlinedkjavascript</A></SPAN></P> Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:23:33 GMT mginsbu 2020-06-17T17:23:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Javascript-SDK-Normal-Search-Use-return-instead-of-console-log/m-p/504386#M9031 <P>Hi,</P> <P>I have used the&nbsp;<SPAN>Search_normal.js example that runs a normal search,&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN>prints the job statistics and search results. How do I return the search results (instead of logging to console) so that I can pass the result data into another js file?</SPAN></P> <P>The code:</P> <P>&nbsp;</P> <LI-CODE lang="javascript">var splunkjs = require('splunk-sdk'); var Async = splunkjs.Async; exports.main = function(opts, callback) { opts = opts || {}; var username = opts.username || "*******"; var password = opts.password || "********"; var scheme = opts.scheme || "https"; var host = opts.host || "localhost"; var port = opts.port || "8089"; var version = opts.version || "default"; var service = new splunkjs.Service({ username: username, password: password, scheme: scheme, host: host, port: port, version: version }); Async.chain([ // Login function(done) { service.login(done); }, // Perform the search function(success, done) { if (!success) { done("Error logging in"); } service.search("search index=cog-censor-allow", {}, done); }, // Wait until the job is done function(job, done) { job.track({}, function(job) { // Ask the server for the results job.results({}, done); }); }, // Print out the statistics and get the results function(results, job, done) { // Print out the statistics /*console.log("Job Statistics: "); console.log(" Event Count: " + job.properties().eventCount); console.log(" Disk Usage: " + job.properties().diskUsage + " bytes"); console.log(" Priority: " + job.properties().priority);*/ // Find the index of the fields we want var rawIndex = results.fields.indexOf("_raw"); var sourcetypeIndex = results.fields.indexOf("sourcetype"); var userIndex = results.fields.indexOf("user"); // Print out each result and the key-value pairs we want console.log("Results: "); for(var i = 0; i &lt; results.rows.length; i++) { console.log(" Result " + i + ": "); console.log(" sourcetype: " + results.rows[i][sourcetypeIndex]); console.log(" user: " + results.rows[i][userIndex]); console.log(" _raw: " + results.rows[i][rawIndex]); } job.cancel(done); } ], function(err) { callback(err); } ); }; if (module === require.main) { exports.main({}, function() {}); }</LI-CODE> <P>&nbsp;</P> <P><SPAN>My example code is&nbsp;</SPAN><SPAN>located in the&nbsp;</SPAN><STRONG>/splunk-sdk-javascript/examples/node</STRONG><SPAN>&nbsp;directory.&nbsp;<A href="https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/javascript/sdk-javascript/sdkjavascriptexamples/cmdlinedkjavascript" target="_blank" rel="noopener">https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/javascript/sdk-javascript/sdkjavascriptexamples/cmdlinedkjavascript</A></SPAN></P> Wed, 17 Jun 2020 17:23:33 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Javascript-SDK-Normal-Search-Use-return-instead-of-console-log/m-p/504386#M9031 mginsbu 2020-06-17T17:23:33Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Javascript-SDK-Normal-Search-Use-return-instead-of-console-log/m-p/526383#M9032 <P>HI mginsbu,</P><P>Did u got the right answer. I am also encounter like this problem. How did u solve ,can you please elaborate&nbsp; that ?<BR />Thanks</P> Sun, 25 Oct 2020 20:45:46 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Javascript-SDK-Normal-Search-Use-return-instead-of-console-log/m-p/526383#M9032 ccmoeaung 2020-10-25T20:45:46Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Javascript-SDK-Normal-Search-Use-return-instead-of-console-log/m-p/535940#M9033 <P>Hi, I am also interested, Did any one figure it out?&nbsp;</P> Fri, 15 Jan 2021 03:25:14 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Splunk-Dev/Javascript-SDK-Normal-Search-Use-return-instead-of-console-log/m-p/535940#M9033 Salah2019 2021-01-15T03:25:14Z