As an admin, enable “Web services for mobile devices” on Site administration ► Advanced features Go to Site Admin > Plugins > Manage global search > Display results in separate categories, ensure the setting is disabled Go to Site Admin > Plugins > Manage global search > Manage global search, set "Maximum top results" to 3 Go to Developer options > Make test course and create a size "S" course Enrol one user as student in that course Go to Site administration > General > Advanced features > Enable "Global Search" Go to Site administration > Plugins > Manage global search Select "Simple search" as Search Engine Enable "Display results in separate categories" In the "Index" section, do an initial indexation of the contents In the Site home, top right you will see the search box, search for "page" and confirm that: In the results you see at least 5 pages with more than 40 results of the search Create a Token in the mobile app service for the user created in step 3 Click on Site administration ► Server ► Web services ► Manage tokens Open the console and execute this new curl request, replacing WS_TOKEN with the token you just created and the SITE_URL with yours. curl 'SITE_URL/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=core_search_get_results&wstoken=WS_TOKEN&query=page' | python -m "json.tool" Confirm that: In the curl request response, you see the same results that you saw in the web (look for title tag to compare) - i.e. first page results Execute the same request but appending &page=1 after query=page Confirm that: In the curl request response, you see the same results that you saw in the web for the second page (in web will say 2) and the total number of records returned matches Execute now this request: curl 'SITE_URL/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=core_search_view_results&wstoken=WS_TOKEN&query=page' | python -m "json.tool" Login as admin on the site, go to Site administration > Reports -> Logs -> Get these logs and confirm that You see an entry with this text "The user with id 'x' viewed page 'y' of 'page' search results" with the origin column set to "ws" Execute this curl request: curl 'SITE_URL/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=core_search_get_search_areas_list&wstoken=WS_TOKEN' | python -m "json.tool" Confirm that: You receive a list of search areas that matches the ones displayed in the advanced search form (the page you see after performing any global search) > Filter section >Search area dropdown Look for name tag in request result to compare Execute the following curl request curl 'SITE_URL/webservice/rest/server.php?moodlewsrestformat=json' --data 'wsfunction=core_search_get_top_results&wstoken=WS_TOKEN&query=page' | python -m "json.tool" Confirm that: You receive only three search results that match the ones displayed in the "Top results" section in the global search web version for the same search ("page")