https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-I-search-a-specific-index-via-the-API-using-curl/m-p/64986#M13063 <P>How can I search a specific index via the API using curl? When I try to use <BR /> curl -u user:pass -k -d 'search=search index="indexname" OR curl -u user:pass -k -d 'search=search index="indexname"</P> <P>I get results but the following messages returned...<BR /> No Matching index found for 'index=indexname'<BR /> No mmatching index found for index::indexname</P> <P>Any help would be appreciated..</P> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:14:10 GMT msmapper 2012-02-04T00:14:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-I-search-a-specific-index-via-the-API-using-curl/m-p/64986#M13063 <P>How can I search a specific index via the API using curl? When I try to use <BR /> curl -u user:pass -k -d 'search=search index="indexname" OR curl -u user:pass -k -d 'search=search index="indexname"</P> <P>I get results but the following messages returned...<BR /> No Matching index found for 'index=indexname'<BR /> No mmatching index found for index::indexname</P> <P>Any help would be appreciated..</P> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:14:10 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-I-search-a-specific-index-via-the-API-using-curl/m-p/64986#M13063 msmapper 2012-02-04T00:14:10Z https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-I-search-a-specific-index-via-the-API-using-curl/m-p/64987#M13064 <P>The problem here is because your request isn't URL encoded. Specifically, your:</P> <PRE><CODE>search index="indexname" </CODE></PRE> <P>Needs to be URL encoded. You can easily fix this by doing:</P> <PRE><CODE>curl -k -u admin:changeme <A href="https://localhost:8089/services/search/jobs" target="test_blank">https://localhost:8089/services/search/jobs</A> --data-urlencode 'search=search index="_internal" | head 1' </CODE></PRE> Sat, 04 Feb 2012 00:43:51 GMT https://community.splunk.com/t5/Getting-Data-In/How-can-I-search-a-specific-index-via-the-API-using-curl/m-p/64987#M13064 ineeman 2012-02-04T00:43:51Z