---
title: "Search Data"
url: https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/search/search-data/
description: "This page describes the method to search data in multiple tables in your Python application with sample code snippets."
last_updated: 2025-11-19T15:07:41Z
service: Cloud Scale
type: general
related_links:
  - name: "Search data - API"
    url: /en/api/code-reference/cloud-scale/search/execute-search-query/#ExecuteSearchQuery
  - name: "Search Integration Help"
    url: /en/cloud-scale/help/search-integration/introduction
  - name: "SDK Scopes"
    url: /en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes
---

# Search Data

Catalyst Search enables you to search and retrieve data records from the Catalyst Data Store. You can execute a search query using the `execute_search_query()` method to search for a particular pattern of data. 

### Create a Dictionary

The following code snippet creates a dictionary that contains the attributes of the pattern to be searched for, in the indexed columns of the individual Data Store tables.

```python
#Create a dictionary
config = {
    'search': 'burrows*',
    'search_table_columns': {
        'Employee': ['EmployeeID'],
        'Users': ['Name']
    }
}

```

### Execute Search Query

The dictionary object created in the previous section is passed as a parameter to the `execute_search_query()` method, which returns the response. To know more about the component instance `search_service` used below, please refer to [this help section](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/cloud-scale/search/get-component-instance/).

**Parameters Used**

<table class="content-table">
	<thead>
		<tr>
			<th class="w20p">Parameter Name</th>
      <th class="w20p">Data Type</th>
      <th class="w60p">Definition</th>
		</tr>
	</thead>
	<tbody>
		<tr>
			<td>`config`</td>
      <td>Object</td>
			<td>A **Mandatory** parameter. Will hold the details of the search patterns.</td>
		</tr>
	</tbody>
</table>

```python
#Execute Search query
search_service = app.search()
response_data = search_service.execute_search_query(config)

```

A sample response will be shown below :

```json
{
  AlienCity: [
    {
      CREATORID: "2136000000006003",
      MODIFIEDTIME: "2021-08-13 13:49:19:475",
      CITYNAME: "Dallas",
      CREATEDTIME: "2021-08-13 13:49:19:475",
      ROWID: "2136000000008508"
    }
  ]
}

```

> **Info :** Refer to the [SDK Scopes table](https://docs.catalyst.zoho.com/en/sdk/python/v1/sdk-scopes) to determine the required permission level for performing the above operation.