## Description
Implements comprehensive search functionality with advanced filtering
capabilities for Chatwoot (Linear: CW-5956).
This PR adds:
1. **Time-based filtering** for contacts and conversations (SQL-based
search)
2. **Advanced message search** with multiple filters
(OpenSearch/Elasticsearch-based)
- **`from` filter**: Filter messages by sender (format: `contact:42` or
`agent:5`)
- **`inbox_id` filter**: Filter messages by specific inbox
- **Time range filters**: Filter messages using `since` and `until`
parameters (Unix timestamps in seconds)
- **90-day limit enforcement**: Automatically limits searches to the
last 90 days to prevent performance issues
The implementation extends the existing `Enterprise::SearchService`
module for advanced features and adds time filtering to the base
`SearchService` for SQL-based searches.
## API Documentation
### Base URL
All search endpoints follow this pattern:
```
GET /api/v1/accounts/{account_id}/search/{resource}
```
### Authentication
All requests require authentication headers:
```
api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN
```
---
## 1. Search All Resources
**Endpoint:** `GET /api/v1/accounts/{account_id}/search`
Returns results from all searchable resources (contacts, conversations,
messages, articles).
### Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description | Required |
|-----------|------|-------------|----------|
| `q` | string | Search query | Yes |
| `page` | integer | Page number (15 items per page) | No |
| `since` | integer | Unix timestamp (contacts/conversations only) | No
|
| `until` | integer | Unix timestamp (contacts/conversations only) | No
|
### Example Request
```bash
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search?q=customer" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
### Example Response
```json
{
"payload": {
"contacts": [...],
"conversations": [...],
"messages": [...],
"articles": [...]
}
}
```
---
## 2. Search Contacts
**Endpoint:** `GET /api/v1/accounts/{account_id}/search/contacts`
Search contacts by name, email, phone number, or identifier with
optional time filtering.
### Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description | Required |
|-----------|------|-------------|----------|
| `q` | string | Search query | Yes |
| `page` | integer | Page number (15 items per page) | No |
| `since` | integer | Unix timestamp - filter by last_activity_at | No |
| `until` | integer | Unix timestamp - filter by last_activity_at | No |
### Example Requests
**Basic search:**
```bash
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/contacts?q=john" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Search contacts active in the last 7 days:**
```bash
SINCE=$(date -v-7d +%s)
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/contacts?q=john&since=${SINCE}" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Search contacts active between 30 and 7 days ago:**
```bash
SINCE=$(date -v-30d +%s)
UNTIL=$(date -v-7d +%s)
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/contacts?q=john&since=${SINCE}&until=${UNTIL}" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
### Example Response
```json
{
"payload": {
"contacts": [
{
"id": 42,
"email": "john@example.com",
"name": "John Doe",
"phone_number": "+1234567890",
"identifier": "user_123",
"additional_attributes": {},
"created_at": 1701234567
}
]
}
}
```
---
## 3. Search Conversations
**Endpoint:** `GET /api/v1/accounts/{account_id}/search/conversations`
Search conversations by display ID, contact name, email, phone number,
or identifier with optional time filtering.
### Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description | Required |
|-----------|------|-------------|----------|
| `q` | string | Search query | Yes |
| `page` | integer | Page number (15 items per page) | No |
| `since` | integer | Unix timestamp - filter by last_activity_at | No |
| `until` | integer | Unix timestamp - filter by last_activity_at | No |
### Example Requests
**Basic search:**
```bash
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/conversations?q=billing" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Search conversations active in the last 24 hours:**
```bash
SINCE=$(date -v-1d +%s)
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/conversations?q=billing&since=${SINCE}" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Search conversations from last month:**
```bash
SINCE=$(date -v-30d +%s)
UNTIL=$(date +%s)
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/conversations?q=billing&since=${SINCE}&until=${UNTIL}" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
### Example Response
```json
{
"payload": {
"conversations": [
{
"id": 123,
"display_id": 45,
"inbox_id": 1,
"status": "open",
"messages": [...],
"meta": {...}
}
]
}
}
```
---
## 4. Search Messages (Advanced)
**Endpoint:** `GET /api/v1/accounts/{account_id}/search/messages`
Advanced message search with multiple filters powered by
OpenSearch/Elasticsearch.
### Prerequisites
- OpenSearch/Elasticsearch must be running (`OPENSEARCH_URL` env var
configured)
- Account must have `advanced_search` feature flag enabled
- Messages must be indexed in OpenSearch
### Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description | Required |
|-----------|------|-------------|----------|
| `q` | string | Search query | Yes |
| `page` | integer | Page number (15 items per page) | No |
| `from` | string | Filter by sender: `contact:{id}` or `agent:{id}` |
No |
| `inbox_id` | integer | Filter by specific inbox ID | No |
| `since` | integer | Unix timestamp - searches from this time (max 90
days ago) | No |
| `until` | integer | Unix timestamp - searches until this time | No |
### Important Notes
- **90-Day Limit**: If `since` is not provided, searches default to the
last 90 days
- If `since` exceeds 90 days, returns `422` error: "Search is limited to
the last 90 days"
- All time filters use message `created_at` timestamp
### Example Requests
**Basic message search:**
```bash
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/messages?q=refund" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Search messages from a specific contact:**
```bash
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/messages?q=refund&from=contact:42" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Search messages from a specific agent:**
```bash
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/messages?q=refund&from=agent:5" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Search messages in a specific inbox:**
```bash
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/messages?q=refund&inbox_id=3" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Search messages from the last 7 days:**
```bash
SINCE=$(date -v-7d +%s)
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/messages?q=refund&since=${SINCE}" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Search messages between specific dates:**
```bash
SINCE=$(date -v-30d +%s)
UNTIL=$(date -v-7d +%s)
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/messages?q=refund&since=${SINCE}&until=${UNTIL}" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Combine all filters:**
```bash
SINCE=$(date -v-14d +%s)
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/messages?q=refund&from=contact:42&inbox_id=3&since=${SINCE}" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
**Attempt to search beyond 90 days (returns error):**
```bash
SINCE=$(date -v-120d +%s)
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/messages?q=refund&since=${SINCE}" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
### Example Response (Success)
```json
{
"payload": {
"messages": [
{
"id": 789,
"content": "I need a refund for my purchase",
"message_type": "incoming",
"created_at": 1701234567,
"conversation_id": 123,
"inbox_id": 3,
"sender": {
"id": 42,
"type": "contact"
}
}
]
}
}
```
### Example Response (90-day limit exceeded)
```json
{
"error": "Search is limited to the last 90 days"
}
```
**Status Code:** `422 Unprocessable Entity`
---
## 5. Search Articles
**Endpoint:** `GET /api/v1/accounts/{account_id}/search/articles`
Search help center articles by title or content.
### Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Description | Required |
|-----------|------|-------------|----------|
| `q` | string | Search query | Yes |
| `page` | integer | Page number (15 items per page) | No |
### Example Request
```bash
curl -X GET "https://app.chatwoot.com/api/v1/accounts/1/search/articles?q=installation" \
-H "api_access_token: YOUR_ACCESS_TOKEN"
```
### Example Response
```json
{
"payload": {
"articles": [
{
"id": 456,
"title": "Installation Guide",
"slug": "installation-guide",
"portal_slug": "help",
"account_id": 1,
"category_name": "Getting Started",
"status": "published",
"updated_at": 1701234567
}
]
}
}
```
---
## Technical Implementation
### SQL-Based Search (Contacts, Conversations, Articles)
- Uses PostgreSQL `ILIKE` queries by default
- Optional GIN index support via `search_with_gin` feature flag for
better performance
- Time filtering uses `last_activity_at` for contacts/conversations
- Returns paginated results (15 per page)
### Advanced Search (Messages)
- Powered by OpenSearch/Elasticsearch via Searchkick gem
- Requires `OPENSEARCH_URL` environment variable
- Requires `advanced_search` account feature flag
- Enforces 90-day lookback limit via
`Limits::MESSAGE_SEARCH_TIME_RANGE_LIMIT_DAYS`
- Validates inbox access permissions before filtering
- Returns paginated results (15 per page)
---
## Type of change
- [x] New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
- [x] Enhancement (improves existing functionality)
---
## How Has This Been Tested?
### Unit Tests
- **Contact Search Tests**: 3 new test cases for time filtering
(`since`, `until`, combined)
- **Conversation Search Tests**: 3 new test cases for time filtering
- **Message Search Tests**: 10+ test cases covering:
- Individual filters (`from`, `inbox_id`, time range)
- Combined filters
- Permission validation for inbox access
- Feature flag checks
- 90-day limit enforcement
- Error handling for exceeded time limits
### Test Commands
```bash
# Run all search controller tests
bundle exec rspec spec/controllers/api/v1/accounts/search_controller_spec.rb
# Run search service tests (includes enterprise specs)
bundle exec rspec spec/services/search_service_spec.rb
```
### Manual Testing Setup
A rake task is provided to create 50,000 test messages across multiple
inboxes:
```bash
# 1. Create test data
bundle exec rake search:setup_test_data
# 2. Start OpenSearch
mise elasticsearch-start
# 3. Reindex messages
rails runner "Message.search_index.import Message.all"
# 4. Enable feature flag
rails runner "Account.first.enable_features('advanced_search')"
# 5. Test via API or Rails console
```
---
## Checklist
- [x] My code follows the style guidelines of this project
- [x] I have performed a self-review of my code
- [x] I have commented on my code, particularly in hard-to-understand
areas
- [x] I have made corresponding changes to the documentation (this PR
description)
- [x] My changes generate no new warnings
- [x] I have added tests that prove my fix is effective or that my
feature works
- [x] New and existing unit tests pass locally with my changes
- [ ] Any dependent changes have been merged and published in downstream
modules
---
## Additional Notes
### Requirements
- **OpenSearch/Elasticsearch**: Required for advanced message search
- Set `OPENSEARCH_URL` environment variable
- Example: `export OPENSEARCH_URL=http://localhost:9200`
- **Feature Flags**:
- `advanced_search`: Account-level flag for message advanced search
- `search_with_gin` (optional): Account-level flag for GIN-based SQL
search
### Performance Considerations
- 90-day limit prevents expensive long-range queries on large datasets
- GIN indexes recommended for high-volume search on SQL-based resources
- OpenSearch/Elasticsearch provides faster full-text search for messages
### Breaking Changes
- None. All new parameters are optional and backward compatible.
### Frontend Integration
- Frontend PR tracking advanced search UI will consume these endpoints
- Time range pickers should convert JavaScript `Date` to Unix timestamps
(seconds)
- Date conversion: `Math.floor(date.getTime() / 1000)`
### Error Handling
- Invalid `from` parameter format is silently ignored (filter not
applied)
- Time range exceeding 90 days returns `422` with error message
- Missing `q` parameter returns `422` (existing behavior)
- Unauthorized inbox access is filtered out (no error, just excluded
from results)
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Co-authored-by: iamsivin <iamsivin@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sivin Varghese <64252451+iamsivin@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Pranav <pranav@chatwoot.com>
Co-authored-by: Muhsin Keloth <muhsinkeramam@gmail.com>
Migration Guide: https://chwt.app/v4/migration
This PR imports all the work related to Captain into the EE codebase. Captain represents the AI-based features in Chatwoot and includes the following key components:
- Assistant: An assistant has a persona, the product it would be trained on. At the moment, the data at which it is trained is from websites. Future integrations on Notion documents, PDF etc. This PR enables connecting an assistant to an inbox. The assistant would run the conversation every time before transferring it to an agent.
- Copilot for Agents: When an agent is supporting a customer, we will be able to offer additional help to lookup some data or fetch information from integrations etc via copilot.
- Conversation FAQ generator: When a conversation is resolved, the Captain integration would identify questions which were not in the knowledge base.
- CRM memory: Learns from the conversations and identifies important information about the contact.
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Co-authored-by: Vishnu Narayanan <vishnu@chatwoot.com>
Co-authored-by: Sojan <sojan@pepalo.com>
Co-authored-by: iamsivin <iamsivin@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: Sivin Varghese <64252451+iamsivin@users.noreply.github.com>
Due to the pattern `**/specs/*.spec.js` defined in CircleCI, none of the
frontend spec in the folders such as
`specs/<domain-name>/getters.spec.js` were not executed in Circle CI.
This PR fixes the issue, along with the following changes:
- Use vitest instead of jest
- Remove jest dependancies
- Update tests to work with vitest
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Co-authored-by: Muhsin Keloth <muhsinkeramam@gmail.com>
This commit introduces the ability to associate response sources to an inbox, allowing external webpages to be parsed by Chatwoot. The parsed data is converted into embeddings for use with GPT models when managing customer queries.
The implementation relies on the `pgvector` extension for PostgreSQL. Database migrations related to this feature are handled separately by `Features::ResponseBotService`. A future update will integrate these migrations into the default rails migrations, once compatibility with Postgres extensions across all self-hosted installation options is confirmed.
Additionally, a new GitHub action has been added to the CI pipeline to ensure the execution of specs related to this feature.
Currently, the swagger spec doesn't follow the Swagger 2.0 specification. So, I facing 4 errors when trying generate the Golang client for chatwoot.
Due to the spec, the binary field should use format: binary beside type: string
Signed-off-by: Giau. Tran Minh <hello@giautm.dev>
Co-authored-by: Sojan Jose <sojan@pepalo.com>
* chore: update to ruby 3.1.3
* chore: ping docker version to alpine3.16 for nodev16.x
Starting with Node 17, nodejs switched to OpenSSL3. The docker builds
are installing node18.xx with alpine-3.1.3.
From Node.js 17's announcement post:
If you hit an ERR_OSSL_EVP_UNSUPPORTED error in your application
with Node.js 17, it’s likely that your application or a module you’re
using is attempting to use an algorithm or key size which is no longer
allowed by default with OpenSSL 3.0. A new command-line option,
--openssl-legacy-provider, has been added to revert to the legacy
provider as a temporary workaround for these tightened restrictions.
Looks like a webpack issue. This is fixed in webpacl 5+ and we are on
webpack4 at the moment.
Solutions
Upgrade webpack.
Pin nodejs version to be 16.x.x
Use --openssl-legacy-provider as a workaround.
Pin docker version to alpine3.16 branch to have node16.x by default
ref:
https://github.com/chatwoot/chatwoot/pull/5555#issuecomment-1379778532
* chore: update webmock
* chore: fix ruby gem path in dockerfile
* chore: switch to node16 in circleci
* chore: update ruby version in linux installer script
* chore: update ruby version in linux installer script
* chore: fix circleci
* chore: fix circleci
* feat: upgrade node version to 16.x in linux installer
* chore: update systemd files
Co-authored-by: Sojan Jose <sojan@chatwoot.com>
* chore: Update ruby version to 3.0.4
* chore: update ruby version in docker workflow
* chore: update ruby version to 3.1.2
* Upgrade vue-jest to remove deasync
* Revert to 3.0.4 to see if deasync issue is fixed
* fix: script failure if pg/redis not opted in
Co-authored-by: Pranav Raj S <pranav@chatwoot.com>
This fixes issues in the swagger.json file. The motivation to do so is to be able to generate API clients using https://openapi-generator.tech Doing so will require further changes to the api spec, but this seems like a good first step since it is now "valid" according to editor.swagger.io and openapi-generator validate.
Fixes#2806
* [#139] Delayed emails for conversations
* Added the setex and get methods to Redis wrapper
* Set the priorities for the sidekiq queues
* Was not able to use mailhog for testing email in local, switched back to letter opener and added comments on using the SMTP settings
* Added after create hood in messages to queue the sending of mail after 2 minutes using sidekiq worker and also set the redis key for the conversation to avoid the email sending for every message
* Added the sidekiq worker to send the email and delete the conversation redis key
* Added the mailer and mail template
* mailer sends the last 10 messages along with the new messages from the time it was queued
* Send email only in development or if smtp config is set
* Send email only in development or if smtp config is set
* Set the SMTP_PORT in production variable
* Adding redis to circle CI
* Specs for the conversation email changes
* Added specs for conversation email sidekiq worker
* Added specs for conversation mailer
* Added specs in message model for the after create hook for notify email
* Send emails only when there is a reply from agent
* set development to use mailhog
* Adding comments for using letter opener
* Added dotenv-rails gem to manage environment variables
* Added dotenv-rails gem to manage environment variables
* Removed figaro which was used earlier for this purpose
* Standardized variable names
* Changed all env variables to be upper case. This included changes in files referencing env variables.
* Added example env file with all variables set to empty value
* Removed the earlier setup of copying application.yml and database.yml and the scripts and documentation associated to this
* Docker setup
* Added docker file for building the docker images
* Added entrypoint.sh script which is referenced inside the Docker image
* Cloned the Procfile for development using docker which has slight change compared to regular procfile
* Added the docker-compose.yml which has 3 service's configuration, postgres, redis and chatwoot server and a mounted volume for postgres
* Added docker related info to documentation
* Added the docker setup info in the documentation
* Added info for using`rbenv` instead of rvm for managing ruby versions
* Updated the documentation for environment variables to have one about `dotenv-rails` gem and removed the documentation about the old copy paste method used by figaro
* Changing the postgres database, username and password as environment variables
* Removed database.yml from gitignore
* Made the postgres databse, username and password as environemnt variables
* Added this in documentation
* Added a quick setup page
* Added quick setup page
* Removed the docs from README and added link to the docs in website
* Removed the figaro related things from circle.ci config
* Adding external volume for redis in docker compose
* Added instructions for adding the redis volume in docs
