Text Search

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Use the $text operator to perform text searches on fields which have a text index.

To create a text index on a collection, pass a document containing the name of the field to be indexed with the value ‘text’ to the createIndex() method.

function createTextIndex(db, callback) { // Get the restaurants collection const collection = db.collection('restaurants'); // Create the index collection.createIndex( { name : "text" }, function(err, result) { console.log(result); callback(result); }); }; const MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient; const assert = require('assert'); // Connection URL const url = 'mongodb://localhost:27017'; // Database Name const dbName = 'myproject'; // Create a new MongoClient const client = new MongoClient(url); // Use connect method to connect to the Server client.connect(function(err, client) { assert.equal(null, err); console.log("Connected correctly to server"); const db = client.db(dbName); createTextIndex(db, function() { client.close(); }); }); 

The following example assumes that a database called test has a collection called restaurants, with a text index on the name field. A sample dataset is available for download.

function findDocuments(db, callback) { // Get the documents collection const collection = db.collection('restaurants'); // Find some documents collection.find({ '$text': {'$search' : 'Garden' } } ).toArray(function(err, docs) { assert.equal(err, null); console.log("Found the following records"); console.log(docs); callback(docs); }); } // use the findDocuments() function const MongoClient = require('mongodb').MongoClient; const assert = require('assert'); // Connection URL const url = 'mongodb://localhost:27017'; // Database Name const dbName = 'myproject'; const client = new MongoClient(url); // Use connect method to connect to the Server client.connect(function(err, client) { assert.equal(null, err); console.log("Connected correctly to server"); const db = client.db(dbName); findDocuments(db, function() { client.close(); }); }); 

For more information about the $text operator and its options, see the manual entry.