Search

What is content search?

Content search is the process of querying the portal service to find users, groups, or different types of items such as maps, scenes, layers, files, services, or apps from templates and builders.

You can use content search to:

Search for public or private items.
Find different types of items.
Sort search results.
Return pages of search results.

How to search the portal

To search for items, you make an HTTPS request to the portal service and use the search operation. The search operation supports a query string with fields, and operators, such as AND, OR, and NOT. You can perform an open search for text using the default fields or you can search for text in specific fields such as the title, description, or tags. You can also specify a location to search near, or a bounding box to search in by defining the bbox parameter.

The general steps to search for items are:

Define the URL to the portal service: https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/search.
Provide the text for your search. For example, "Streets", or "Elevation level".
Define the item type for your search. For example, Web Map or Feature Service.
Set the sort order for your return results.
Any additional fields, such as tags, date created, or last modified.

Search for different types of content items in the ArcGIS Platform portal.

URL request

https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/search?<parameters>

Key parameters

Name	Description	Examples
`q`	The text or formatted query with text.	q="streets", q="streets AND highways", q=(title:"streets" OR description:"streets")
`sortField`	The primary sort field.	sortField=numviews, sortField=created, sortField=modified
`sortOrder`	Return results in ascending or descending order.	sortOrder=asc, sortOrder=desc

Additional parameters: To refine the search further, you can use parameters such as bbox, num, start, and categories.

Query structure

Here are a some of the general rules for formatting queries:

For an open search, specify the text at the beginning. e.g. q="streets"
To search specific fields, use a colon : after the field name.
Use double quotes "text" around all search text.
Capitalize all AND, OR, and NOT operators.
Use () to group operators.
Use the type: field to define the type of items to return. e.g. type: Web Map

For example:

https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/search?f=json&q=title:"London Tube" AND type:"Web Map" AND tags:Transportation

Default fields

When searching for text in items or groups, if you do not provide fields, the following default fields are searched.

Items	Groups
title	title
tags	tags
description	description
snippet	snippet
tagKeywords	owner

For example:

https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/search?f=json&q="Seven Natural Wonders of the World"

Examples

The following examples illustrate how to format queries to search for different types of content in the ArcGIS Platform portal. Most APIs set the default portal URL to https://www.arcigs.com/sharing/rest.

Search for text

Find any type of item with the keywords title or description.

APIs

ArcGIS REST JS

ArcGIS JS API

ArcGIS Python API

ArcGIS iOS API

import { searchItems } from "@esri/arcgis-rest-portal"
// Define a query
const query = new arcgisRest.SearchQueryBuilder()
  .match("Seven Natural Wonders of the World")
  .in("title")
  .or()
  .match("Seven Natural Wonders of the World")
  .in("description")

searchItems(query, { portal: "https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest" })
  .then((response) => {
    console.log(response);
});

REST API

Request

Response

curl https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/search \
-d 'q=title:"Seven Natural Wonders of the World" OR description:"Seven Natural Wonders of the World"' \
-d 'f=pjson'

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  "total": 10,
  "start": 1,
  "num": 10,
  "nextStart": -1,
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      "modified": 1374771351000,
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      "name": null,
      "title": "Grand Canyon",
      "type": "Web Map",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "ArcGIS Online",
        "Explorer Web Map",
        "Map",
        "Online Map",
        "Web Map"
      ],
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    {
      "id": "9d86b70a60c34bc5b9fce9e7ef2eddef",
      "owner": "al_dev",
      "created": 1521736628000,
      "modified": 1521736634000,
      "guid": null,
      "name": null,
      "title": "Seven Natural Wonders of the World Map",
      "type": "Web Map",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "ArcGIS Online",
        "Explorer Web Map",
        "Map",
        "Online Map",
        "Web Map"
      ],
      "description": null,
      "tags": ["map"],
      "snippet": null,
      "thumbnail": "thumbnail/ago_downloaded.png",
      "documentation": null,
      "extent": [
        [
          -180,
          -68.6081
        ],
        [
          180,
          82.5122
        ]
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "spatialReference": null,
      "accessInformation": null,
      "licenseInfo": null,
      "culture": "en-us",
      "properties": null,
      "url": null,
      "proxyFilter": null,
      "access": "public",
      "size": -1,
      "subInfo": 0,
      "appCategories": [],
      "industries": [],
      "languages": [],
      "largeThumbnail": null,
      "banner": null,
      "screenshots": [],
      "listed": false,
      "numComments": 0,
      "numRatings": 0,
      "avgRating": 0,
      "numViews": 213,
      "scoreCompleteness": 33,
      "groupDesignations": null
    },
    {
      "id": "19551429c13147678ff6e88de1eb1fab",
      "owner": "al_dev",
      "created": 1521488281000,
      "modified": 1551474973000,
      "guid": null,
      "name": "Seven Natural Wonders of the World",
      "title": "Seven Natural Wonders of the World",
      "type": "Feature Service",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "ArcGIS Server",
        "Data",
        "Feature Access",
        "Feature Service",
        "Service",
        "Singlelayer",
        "Hosted Service"
      ],
      "description": null,
      "tags": [
        "world",
        "data",
        "sourceId-da7cda8d38224b368bc74cc7d6f05d0f",
        "copied with ago-assistant"
      ],
      "snippet": null,
      "thumbnail": "thumbnail/ago_downloaded.png",
      "documentation": null,
      "extent": [
        [
          -112.60000302532282,
          -22.79027853558569
        ],
        [
          147.70000188586465,
          64.1258908091207
        ]
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "spatialReference": null,
      "accessInformation": null,
      "licenseInfo": null,
      "culture": null,
      "properties": null,
      "url": "https://services1.arcgis.com/JMcCdYwFdP7JrHLL/arcgis/rest/services/Seven Natural Wonders of the World/FeatureServer",
      "proxyFilter": null,
      "access": "public",
      "size": -1,
      "subInfo": 0,
      "appCategories": [],
      "industries": [],
      "languages": [],
      "largeThumbnail": null,
      "banner": null,
      "screenshots": [],
      "listed": false,
      "numComments": 0,
      "numRatings": 0,
      "avgRating": 0,
      "numViews": 33,
      "scoreCompleteness": 50,
      "groupDesignations": null
    },
    {
      "id": "049dae8612fd4c409770a3bb01bafb5a",
      "owner": "al_geodev",
      "created": 1542134394000,
      "modified": 1550186755000,
      "guid": null,
      "name": null,
      "title": "Seven Natural Wonders of the World Web App",
      "type": "Web Mapping Application",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "JavaScript",
        "Map",
        "Mapping Site",
        "Online Map",
        "Web Map"
      ],
      "description": null,
      "tags": ["webmap"],
      "snippet": null,
      "thumbnail": "thumbnail/ago_downloaded.png",
      "documentation": null,
      "extent": [],
      "categories": [],
      "spatialReference": null,
      "accessInformation": null,
      "licenseInfo": null,
      "culture": "en-us",
      "properties": null,
      "url": "http://localhost/GitHub/arcgis-portal-app-templates/Styler/index.html?appid=049dae8612fd4c409770a3bb01bafb5a",
      "proxyFilter": null,
      "access": "public",
      "size": -1,
      "subInfo": 0,
      "appCategories": [],
      "industries": [],
      "languages": [],
      "largeThumbnail": null,
      "banner": null,
      "screenshots": [],
      "listed": false,
      "numComments": 0,
      "numRatings": 0,
      "avgRating": 0,
      "numViews": 361,
      "scoreCompleteness": 33,
      "groupDesignations": null
    },
    {
      "id": "5a5147abe878444cbac68dea9f2f64e7",
      "owner": "esri_devlabs",
      "created": 1569537110000,
      "modified": 1569537111000,
      "guid": null,
      "name": null,
      "title": "Seven Natural Wonders of the World Map",
      "type": "Web Map",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "ArcGIS Online",
        "Explorer Web Map",
        "Map",
        "Online Map",
        "Web Map"
      ],
      "description": null,
      "tags": ["map"],
      "snippet": null,
      "thumbnail": "thumbnail/ago_downloaded.png",
      "documentation": null,
      "extent": [
        [
          -180,
          -68.6081
        ],
        [
          180,
          82.5122
        ]
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "spatialReference": null,
      "accessInformation": null,
      "licenseInfo": null,
      "culture": "en-us",
      "properties": null,
      "url": null,
      "proxyFilter": null,
      "access": "public",
      "size": -1,
      "subInfo": 0,
      "appCategories": [],
      "industries": [],
      "languages": [],
      "largeThumbnail": null,
      "banner": null,
      "screenshots": [],
      "listed": false,
      "numComments": 0,
      "numRatings": 0,
      "avgRating": 0,
      "numViews": 7,
      "scoreCompleteness": 33,
      "groupDesignations": null
    },
    {
      "id": "4b5c53c041564fea895d2bd17ae17b5c",
      "owner": "dmb6349@psu.edu_Penn_State",
      "created": 1541554366000,
      "modified": 1541961688000,
      "guid": null,
      "name": null,
      "title": "The Seven Natural Wonders of the World: Brink of Collapse",
      "type": "Web Mapping Application",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "JavaScript",
        "layout-side",
        "Map",
        "MapJournal",
        "Mapping Site",
        "Online Map",
        "Ready To Use",
        "selfConfigured",
        "Story Map",
        "Story Maps",
        "Web Map",
        "Registered App",
        "App Proxy"
      ],
      "description": null,
      "tags": [
        "Story Map",
        "Map Journal"
      ],
      "snippet": null,
      "thumbnail": null,
      "documentation": null,
      "extent": [],
      "categories": [],
      "spatialReference": null,
      "accessInformation": null,
      "licenseInfo": null,
      "culture": "en-us",
      "properties": null,
      "url": "https://penn-state.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapJournal/index.html?appid=4b5c53c041564fea895d2bd17ae17b5c",
      "proxyFilter": null,
      "appProxies": [{
        "sourceUrl": "https://landscape6.arcgis.com/arcgis/rest/services/World_Temp_Chng_2050_85/ImageServer",
        "proxyUrl": "https://utility.arcgis.com/usrsvcs/appservices/4ig17Kk5fHqn4QDz/rest/services/World_Temp_Chng_2050_85/ImageServer",
        "proxyId": "4ig17Kk5fHqn4QDz"
      }],
      "access": "public",
      "size": -1,
      "subInfo": 0,
      "appCategories": [],
      "industries": [],
      "languages": [],
      "largeThumbnail": null,
      "banner": null,
      "screenshots": [],
      "listed": false,
      "numComments": 0,
      "numRatings": 0,
      "avgRating": 0,
      "numViews": 264,
      "scoreCompleteness": 25,
      "groupDesignations": null
    }
  ]
}

Search for tags and an owner

Find items by searching for tags and an owner name.

APIs

ArcGIS REST JS

ArcGIS JS API

ArcGIS Python API

ArcGIS iOS API

import { searchItems } from "@esri/arcgis-rest-portal"
// Define a query
const query = new arcgisRest.SearchQueryBuilder()
  .match("USA Demographics")
  .in("tags")
  .and()
  .match("esri")
  .in("owner");

arcgisRest.searchItems(query, { portal: "https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest" })
  .then((response) => {
    console.log(response);
});

REST API

Request

Response

curl https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/search \
-d 'q=tags:"USA Demographics" AND owner:"esri"' \
-d 'f=pjson'

{
  "query": "tags:\"USA Demographics\" AND owner:\"esri\"",
  "total": 48,
  "start": 1,
  "num": 10,
  "nextStart": 11,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "9418ec2b32b2436db6b81812347029cd",
      "owner": "esri",
      "created": 1498503006000,
      "modified": 1602261092000,
      "guid": null,
      "name": null,
      "title": "2017 Population Density for the United States",
      "type": "Web Map",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "ArcGIS Online",
        "Explorer Web Map",
        "Map",
        "Online Map",
        "Requires Credits",
        "Web Map"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "demographics",
        "USA",
        "2017",
        "mature support",
        "deprecated",
        "demographics7",
        "USA_Demographics_and_Boundaries_2017",
        "population",
        "retiring"
      ],
      "snippet": "This map shows the population density in the United States in 2017 in persons per square mile in a multiscale map by country, state, county, ZIP Code, tract, and block group. ArcGIS Online subscription required.",
      "thumbnail": "thumbnail/thumbnail.png",
      "documentation": null,
      "extent": [
        [
          -74.1589,
          40.6383
        ],
        [
          -73.7744,
          40.8444
        ]
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "spatialReference": null,
      "accessInformation": "Esri, U.S. Census Bureau"
    }
  ]
}

Search for a type of item

Find items by searching for a type of item. Learn more about the types of items in items.

APIs

ArcGIS REST JS

ArcGIS JS API

ArcGIS Python API

ArcGIS iOS API

import { searchItems } from "@esri/arcgis-rest-portal"
// Define a query
const query = new arcgisRest.SearchQueryBuilder()
  .match("London Map")
  .in("title")
  .and()
  .match("Web Map")
  .in("type");

arcgisRest.searchItems(query, { portal: "https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest" })
  .then((response) => {
    console.log(response);
});

REST API

Request

Response

curl https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/search \
-d 'q=title:"London Map" AND type:"Web Map"' \
-d 'f=pjson'

{
  "query": "title:\"London Map\" AND type:\"Web Map\"",
  "total": 49,
  "start": 1,
  "num": 10,
  "nextStart": 11,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "1c0ae668422341f298b72d08c1a6ddfe",
      "owner": "alexhhorton",
      "created": 1533078795000,
      "modified": 1533658274000,
      "guid": null,
      "name": null,
      "title": "London Map",
      "type": "Web Map",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "ArcGIS Online",
        "Explorer Web Map",
        "Map",
        "Online Map",
        "Web Map"
      ]
    }
  ]
}

Search for a group

Find groups by searching for a text in the title.

APIs

ArcGIS REST JS

ArcGIS JS API

ArcGIS Python API

ArcGIS iOS API

import { searchGroups } from "@esri/arcgis-rest-portal"
// Define a query
const query = new arcgisRest.SearchQueryBuilder()
    .match("Hikers")
    .in("title")

arcgisRest.searchGroups(query, { portal: "https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest" })
.then((response) => {
  console.log(response);
});

REST API

Request

Response

curl https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/community/groups \
-d 'q=title:"hikers"' \
-d 'f=pjson'

{
  "query": "title:\"hikers\"",
  "total": 3,
  "start": 1,
  "num": 10,
  "nextStart": -1,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "841a00223ee84240a77f6f7d167640f0",
      "title": "New York Hikers",
      "isInvitationOnly": false,
      "owner": "gdborek",
      "description": " A group for hikers and backpackers in New York to share maps from the Adirondacks to Western New York",
      "snippet": "A group for hikers and backpackers in New York to share maps",
      "tags": [
        "Adirondacks",
        "hiking",
        "backpacking",
        "western new york",
        "ny"
      ],
      "typeKeywords": [],
      "phone": null,
      "sortField": null,
      "sortOrder": null,
      "isViewOnly": false,
      "thumbnail": null,
      "created": 1290530404000,
      "modified": 1290530404000,
      "access": "public",
      "capabilities": [],
      "isFav": false,
      "isReadOnly": false,
      "protected": false,
      "autoJoin": false,
      "notificationsEnabled": false,
      "provider": null,
      "providerGroupName": null,
      "leavingDisallowed": false,
      "hiddenMembers": false,
      "displaySettings": {"itemTypes": ""}
    },
    {
      "id": "4e92c6736ca946b49ea8dc845e659268",
      "title": "Hikers",
      "isInvitationOnly": true,
      "owner": "dcaldwel_dbservices",
      "description": "Bunch of hikers having fun!",
      "snippet": "Bunch of hikers having fun!",
      "tags": [
        "Hiking",
        "Partying"
      ],
      "typeKeywords": [],
      "phone": null,
      "sortField": "owner",
      "sortOrder": "asc",
      "isViewOnly": true,
      "thumbnail": "hikingthumb.jpg",
      "created": 1366053519000,
      "modified": 1366067920000,
      "access": "public",
      "capabilities": [],
      "isFav": false,
      "isReadOnly": false,
      "protected": false,
      "autoJoin": false,
      "notificationsEnabled": false,
      "provider": null,
      "providerGroupName": null,
      "leavingDisallowed": false,
      "hiddenMembers": false,
      "displaySettings": {"itemTypes": ""}
    },
    {
      "id": "677ca08a15014372a696c738d13b2120",
      "title": "Skyline Hikers",
      "isInvitationOnly": true,
      "owner": "ycabon",
      "description": null,
      "snippet": null,
      "tags": [
        "Skyline",
        "Trail"
      ],
      "typeKeywords": [],
      "phone": null,
      "sortField": "title",
      "sortOrder": "asc",
      "isViewOnly": false,
      "thumbnail": null,
      "created": 1507934190000,
      "modified": 1507934190000,
      "access": "public",
      "capabilities": [],
      "isFav": false,
      "isReadOnly": false,
      "protected": false,
      "autoJoin": false,
      "notificationsEnabled": false,
      "provider": null,
      "providerGroupName": null,
      "leavingDisallowed": false,
      "hiddenMembers": false,
      "displaySettings": {"itemTypes": ""}
    }
  ]
}

Search near a location

Find items near point or a bounding box (extent).

APIs

ArcGIS REST JS

ArcGIS JS API

ArcGIS Python API

ArcGIS iOS API

import { searchItems } from "@esri/arcgis-rest-portal"
// Define a query
const query = new arcgisRest.SearchQueryBuilder()
  .match("Food carts")
  .and()
  .match("Web Map")
  .in("type")

  const params = {
    bbox: "-122.6750,45.5051 ,-122.6750,45.5051" // Portland, Oregon
  }

  arcgisRest.searchItems(query, params, { portal: "https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest" })
  .then((response) => {
      console.log(response);
});

REST API

Request

Response

curl  https://www.arcgis.com/sharing/rest/search \
-d 'bbox=-122.6750,45.5051, -122.6750,45.5051' \
-d 'q="food cart" AND type:"web map"' \
-d 'f=pjson'

{
  "query": "snippet: \"food cart\" AND type: \"web map\"",
  "total": 3,
  "start": 1,
  "num": 10,
  "nextStart": -1,
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "f0388be531c54161a2ce013da53320a9",
      "owner": "eogdenfung_wesleyan",
      "created": 1540868218000,
      "modified": 1540869185000,
      "guid": null,
      "name": null,
      "title": "Portland Food Trucks",
      "type": "Web Map",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "ArcGIS Online",
        "Explorer Web Map",
        "Map",
        "Online Map",
        "Web Map"
      ],
      "description": null,
      "tags": [
        "Portland",
        "Oregon",
        "Food Trucks",
        "Wesleyan GIS"
      ],
      "snippet": "This map shows the top food carts in Portland, OR.",
      "thumbnail": "thumbnail/ago_downloaded.png",
      "documentation": null,
      "extent": [
        [
          -122.8191,
          45.4766
        ],
        [
          -122.4538,
          45.5736
        ]
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "spatialReference": null,
      "accessInformation": null,
      "licenseInfo": null,
      "culture": "en-us",
      "properties": null,
      "url": null,
      "proxyFilter": null,
      "access": "public",
      "size": -1,
      "subInfo": 0,
      "appCategories": [],
      "industries": [],
      "languages": [],
      "largeThumbnail": null,
      "banner": null,
      "screenshots": [],
      "listed": false,
      "numComments": 0,
      "numRatings": 0,
      "avgRating": 0,
      "numViews": 95,
      "scoreCompleteness": 66,
      "groupDesignations": null
    },
    {
      "id": "439f8fc32cce4c9a90f8f3b8bd96052e",
      "owner": "skyl7301",
      "created": 1372444739000,
      "modified": 1372459140000,
      "guid": null,
      "name": null,
      "title": "Portland",
      "type": "Web Map",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "ArcGIS Online",
        "Data Editing",
        "Explorer Web Map",
        "Map",
        "Online Map",
        "Web Map"
      ],
      "description": null,
      "tags": [
        "Skylar",
        "Food Carts",
        "Microbrews"
      ],
      "snippet": "A map of microbreweries and food carts in Portland, OR.",
      "thumbnail": "thumbnail/ago_downloaded.png",
      "documentation": null,
      "extent": [
        [
          -122.7393,
          45.4791
        ],
        [
          -122.5708,
          45.5734
        ]
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "spatialReference": null,
      "accessInformation": null,
      "licenseInfo": null,
      "culture": "en-us",
      "properties": null,
      "url": null,
      "proxyFilter": null,
      "access": "public",
      "size": -1,
      "subInfo": 0,
      "appCategories": [],
      "industries": [],
      "languages": [],
      "largeThumbnail": null,
      "banner": null,
      "screenshots": [],
      "listed": false,
      "numComments": 0,
      "numRatings": 0,
      "avgRating": 0,
      "numViews": 57,
      "scoreCompleteness": 50,
      "groupDesignations": null
    },
    {
      "id": "faa7935cd3b3473a8f8c0a4f75c5e738",
      "owner": "LedgerwoodJ_OIT",
      "created": 1601942268000,
      "modified": 1601942274000,
      "guid": null,
      "name": null,
      "title": "Food  carts and major streets",
      "type": "Web Map",
      "typeKeywords": [
        "ArcGIS Online",
        "Explorer Web Map",
        "Map",
        "Online Map",
        "Web Map"
      ],
      "description": null,
      "tags": [
        "GIS207",
        "Exam1",
        "LedgerwoodJ"
      ],
      "snippet": "Looking at this map you can find them most popular food carts and where all the major streets connecting them are.",
      "thumbnail": "thumbnail/ago_downloaded.png",
      "documentation": null,
      "extent": [
        [
          -123.322,
          45.1239
        ],
        [
          -121.2936,
          45.9196
        ]
      ],
      "categories": [],
      "spatialReference": null,
      "accessInformation": null,
      "licenseInfo": null,
      "culture": "en-us",
      "properties": null,
      "url": null,
      "proxyFilter": null,
      "access": "public",
      "size": -1,
      "subInfo": 0,
      "appCategories": [],
      "industries": [],
      "languages": [],
      "largeThumbnail": null,
      "banner": null,
      "screenshots": [],
      "listed": false,
      "numComments": 0,
      "numRatings": 0,
      "avgRating": 0,
      "numViews": 23,
      "scoreCompleteness": 66,
      "groupDesignations": null
    }
  ]
}

Tutorials

Use tools to create different types of content and build content-driven applications.

Web maps

Create a web map

Use Map Viewer to create a web map for your application.

Style layers in a web map

Use Map Viewer to style layers in a web map.

Display a web map

Create and display a map from a web map.

Web scenes

Create a web scene

Use Scene Viewer to create a web scene for your application.

Style layers in a web scene

Use Scene Viewer to style layers in a web scene.

Display a web scene

Create and display a scene from a web scene.

Feature layers

Import data as a feature layer

Use data management tools to import and create hosted feature layers.

Manage a feature layer

Set the properties and capabilities of a hosted feature layer.

Add a feature layer

Access and display point, line, and polygon features from a feature service

Vector tile layers

Publish a vector tile layer

Use ArcGIS Online to publish a vector tile layer.

Add a vector tile layer

Access and display a vector tile layer in a map.

Basemap layers

Create a custom basemap style

Use the Vector tile style editor to style a vector tile basemap layer.

Display a custom basemap style

Add and display a styled vector tile basemap layer.

Services

Portal service

Store, manage, and access private and public content.

API support

	Search	Items	Users	Groups
ArcGIS API for JavaScript	Fully supported	Fully supported	Limited operations	Limited operations
ArcGIS Runtime API for Android	Fully supported	Fully supported	Limited operations	Limited operations
ArcGIS Runtime API for iOS	Fully supported	Fully supported	Limited operations	Limited operations
ArcGIS Runtime API for Java	Fully supported	Fully supported	Limited operations	Limited operations
ArcGIS Runtime API for .NET	Fully supported	Fully supported	Limited operations	Limited operations
ArcGIS Runtime API for Qt	Fully supported	Fully supported	Limited operations	Limited operations
ArcGIS API for Python	Fully supported	Fully supported	Fully supported	Fully supported
Esri Leaflet	Requires ArcGIS REST JS	Requires ArcGIS REST JS	Requires ArcGIS REST JS	Requires ArcGIS REST JS
MapBox GL JS	Requires ArcGIS REST JS	Requires ArcGIS REST JS	Requires ArcGIS REST JS	Requires ArcGIS REST JS
OpenLayers	Requires ArcGIS REST JS	Requires ArcGIS REST JS	Requires ArcGIS REST JS	Requires ArcGIS REST JS
ArcGIS REST JS	Fully supported	Fully supported	Fully supported	Fully supported

Full supportPartial support (see notes)Not supported

Tools

Developer dashboard

Manage API keys, service usage, and data with the ArcGIS Developers website.

ArcGIS Online

Create, manage, and share content and data with cloud-based GIS tools.

Map Viewer

Create, explore, and share web maps for 2D applications.

Scene Viewer

Create, explore, and share web scenes for 3D applications.

Vector tile style editor

Style vector tile basemap layers for applications.

ArcGIS Pro

Explore, visualize, and analyze both 2D and 3D data with desktop GIS tools.

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