> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developer.box.com/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
# Search content using metadata
export const Link = ({href, children, className, ...props}) => {
const localizedHref = href;
return
{children}
;
};
The Box Metadata Query API enables programmatic search of Box content based
strictly on applied custom metadata values.
The structure of a metadata query is similar to that of a SQL query and allows
for Boolean operators, such as AND, OR, and NOT, as well as comparison or range
operators, such as equal to, greater-than, and less-than.
Some benefits of the Metadata Query API include:
* no indexing delay; query immediately after metadata creations, updates, and deletions
* ability to specify a sort order by one or more fields
* no limitation on the number of characters that are queryable
* queries return item properties and metadata instances
## Overview
This guide will take you through the following steps.
1. Create a metadata template
2. Locate information about the metadata template via API
3. Apply the metadata template to at least one file
4. Construct a metadata query API call to obtain the content from step 3
## Overview
This guide will take you through the following steps.
1. Create a metadata template
2. Locate information about the metadata template via API
3. Apply the metadata template to at least one file
4. Construct a metadata query API call to obtain the content from step 3