Solr - Getting facet counts without returning search results

Question

I need to return only the facet counts from solr. So I basically want to search over all documents and return the facet counts, but I don't want to return any search results. Is this possible?

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question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/212446/solr-getting-facet-counts-without-returning-search-results

Answer 1

Setting facet=true will enable faceting and setting rows=0 will prevent any results being returned. Conveniently the numFound will show you how many results were found.