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Character Limit when Generating Scope Search Key

TLDR Facundo inquired about character limits for scoped search keys with large filters. Jason stated there was no limit but recommended using the 'multi_search' method for long keys.

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Aug 10, 2023 (4 months ago)

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Facundo

03:59 PM

Hello there! I would like to ask: Is there a character limit for generating a scoped search key? Let's say I would like to add 200 filters for that scoped key.

client.keys().generateScopedSearchKey(keyWithSearchPermissions, {'filter_by': 'company_id:124', 'expires_at': 1906054106})

Thanks!

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Jason

11:15 PM

No, there’s no character limit

11:16

Jason

11:16 PM

But if you generate a long scoped api key, you want to use multi_search and put the scoped api key in the post body insides searches[].x-typesense-api-key

11:17

Jason

11:17 PM

because HTTP headers do have a max size, and get parameters are restricted to 2K characters in Typesense.

Whereas the POST body doesn’t have these limits

Aug 11, 2023 (4 months ago)

Facundo

12:48 PM

Thanks!

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