Document distribution over time

Above: “Document distribution over time” screenshot from mergeflow.net.

getDocumentDistOverTime returns the distribution of documents over time, i.e. an array of time bins and the according document count. The size of a time bin can be specified within the request. Supported bin sizes are daily, monthly and yearly.

Method Call

https://mergeflow.net/api/v1/{userName}/search/getDocumentDistOverTime

Applicable parameters

q, date, sp, site, groupby

The groupby parameter is mandatory and must have assigned one of the values “date”, “month” or “year” (which specifies the size of the time bins). The date parameter specifies the time range of the distribution. The default time range is the last 180 days (from today).

Sample Result