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

> Text 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/text-search?text_query=example-text-query&agent_id=agent-id&visited_agent_ids=example&visited_agent_branch_ids=example&triggered_procedure_ids=example&call_successful=success&call_start_before_unix=10&call_start_after_unix=10&call_duration_min_secs=10&call_duration_max_secs=10&rating_max=10&rating_min=10&has_feedback_comment=true&user_id=user-id&evaluation_params=example&data_collection_params=example&tool_names=example&tool_names_successful=example&tool_names_errored=example&include_invalid_tool_calls=false&main_languages=example&exclude_statuses=example&termination_reasons=example&page_size=20&summary_mode=exclude&conversation_initiation_source=unknown&text_only=true&conversation_product_type=agents&branch_id=branch-id&version_id=version-id&topic_ids=example&sort_by=search_score&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 full-text a... |
| agent_id | query | string | No | Agent id (agent_…) or speech engine e... |
| visited_agent_ids | query | string[] | No | Filter conversations where any of the... |

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

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