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I am hoping to save someone some time as I couldn't find anyone talking about this anywhere.

I am looking at the SharePoint 2013 Search Rest API documentation and decided to switch my GET calls to POST to clean up code and allow for more complicated queries I foresee having to write.

Looking at this article, I build the queries to send to /_api/search/postquery.

After building a query similar to my GET one:

{ __metadata : {'type' : 'Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.REST.SearchRequest'}, 'Querytext':'alan', 'SelectProperties': { 'results':['Title,PictureURL'] }, 'rowlimit':5, 'SourceId': 'b09a7990-05ea-4af9-81ef-edfab16c4e31' }

And solving this interesting issue.

I am now getting an error:

The parameter __metadata does not exist in method postquery

What am I missing?

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The correct format for the Rest API POST Search Query is:

{ 'request': { '__metadata' : { 'type' : 'Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.REST.SearchRequest' }, 'Querytext': 'query' } }

I found an example here in the second image.

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