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Trying to get suggestions suggested matches from AWS CloudSearch using their suggesters feature. I have configured the suggester through the CloudSearch portal which is self-explanatory.

Here is the following request I am trying to make with python requests:

endpoint = "http://MY-SEARCH-ENDPOINT.us-west-2.cloudsearch.amazonaws.com/2013-01-01/suggest"
params = {'q' : 'wed', 'suggester' : 'keyword_suggester'}
r = requests.get(endpoint, params = params)

Which returns response:

r.json()
{u'status': {u'rid': u'9b/Rjq4p/wEK1YX2', u'time-ms': 2}, u'suggest': {u'query': u'wed', u'suggestions': [], u'found': 0}}

Even when trying to use the AWS "Run a Test Search" tool with the suggester enabled it doesn't return any suggestions. I am assuming I've done something wrong in configuration but I'm not sure what as I have followed the AWS documentation during setup. I can't seem to find any resources around this feature, has anyone gotten this working successfully? I would really appreciate seeing a working example. Thanks for your help.

apardes
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  • the same thing happens to me, I already have documents indexed, I don`t know what else I have to do. – Israel Barba Jan 13 '15 at 18:37
  • apardes - Did you get this working? Im learning cloudsearch and trying my best to get suggestions working but all i get is the same response as you shown in your question even if i try a word that i know exists at the start of strings. – Birdy Jun 24 '17 at 18:46

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Suggestions starting from the beginning, if you have this title: 

"Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace"

The suggester only works if you write the first word in this case: start. but you start with the word: episode, this sugguester doesn't work, you need to index this sentence in many others, example three word suggestions.

   start wars episode
   wars episode I
   episode I the
   I the phantom
   the phantom Menace

If you do that, It will give suggestions starting from the beginning of any of the word groups.

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  • Hey Israel can you elaborate on how you made this to work? I have configured a title field with fuzzy match high but I don't get any suggestions from the middle. What config do I need to change here? – Phoenix Jul 05 '16 at 18:18