curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/conversations/messages/smart-search?text_query=example-text-query&agent_id=agent-id&page_size=20&cursor=example-cursor' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

# GET /v1/convai/conversations/messages/smart-search (ElevenLabs API)
Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03

> Smart Search Conversation Messages

## Critical Gotchas
* Authentication uses the non-standard `xi-api-key` header, not `Authorization: Bearer`. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.
* Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (`--output speech.mp3`) rather than parsing it.

## cURL
curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/conversations/messages/smart-search?text_query=example-text-query&agent_id=agent-id&page_size=20&cursor=example-cursor' \
  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

## Parameters
| Name | In | Type | Required | Description |
| :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- | :--- |
| text_query | query | string | Yes | The search query text for semantic si... |
| agent_id | query | string | No | Agent id (agent_…) or speech engine e... |
| page_size | query | integer | No | Number of results per page. Max 50. |

## Response (200 OK)
{"meta":{"total":0,"page":0},"results":[{}]}

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GET

/v1/convai/conversations/messages/smart-search

ElevenLabs API

Smart Search Conversation Messages

Base URL: https://api.elevenlabs.io
Auth: xi-api-key: <ELEVENLABS_API_KEY>
Last verified: 2026-09-03 · upstream hash matched

Actions

Agents: curl -H "Accept: text/markdown" this URL
→ 207 tokens · Vary: Accept

Critical gotchas

Authentication uses the non-standard xi-api-key header, not Authorization: Bearer. Sending a Bearer token returns HTTP 401.

Text-to-speech responses are raw binary audio, not JSON. Write the body to a file (--output speech.mp3) rather than parsing it.

cURL

curl -X GET 'https://api.elevenlabs.io/v1/convai/conversations/messages/smart-search?text_query=example-text-query&agent_id=agent-id&page_size=20&cursor=example-cursor' \  -H "xi-api-key: $ELEVENLABS_API_KEY"

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Parameters

Name	In	Type	Required	Description
text_query	query	string	Yes	The search query text for semantic similarity matching
agent_id	query	string	No	Agent id (agent_…) or speech engine external id (seng_), resolved to the same underlying resource.
page_size	query	integer	No	Number of results per page. Max 50.
cursor	query	string	No	Used for fetching next page. Cursor is returned in the response.

Response 200 OK

{
  "meta": {
    "total": 0,
    "page": 0,
    "page_size": 0
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "conversation_id": "string",
      "agent_id": "string",
      "agent_name": "string",
      "transcript_index": 0,
      "chunk_text": "string",
      "chunk_highlights": [
        {
          "value": "string",
          "is_hit": true
        }
      ],
      "score": 0,
      "conversation_start_time_unix_secs": 0
    }
  ],
  "next_cursor": "string",
  "has_more": true
}