REST API

To Connect and Authenticate

curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD --data 'username=USERNAME&password=PASSWORD' 'http://IP:PORT/_authenticate'

To Query

curl -u USERNAME:PASSWORD -X GET 'IP:PORT/opensyllabus/opensyllabus/_find'

Optional Arguments:

• criteria=search_criteria (object)
• fields=fields_to_return (object)
• sort=sort_fields (object)
• skip=num (number)
• limit=num (number)
• explain=true
• batch_size=num_to_return (number)

Additional explanation and examples at sleepy mongoose docs, and a good tutorial here.