How to search issue without JQL

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Hi!
I'm reading the REST API documentation for cloud and the only way I found to search is using JQL.
But I also see that JIRA show issues when a user types some keyword, so I want to know that is there any REST API support this, or I have to utilize JQL to achieve this myself?

Many thanks

[Alexey Matveev]

Hello,

What do you mean by keyword? it is still JQL. You can write

text ~ keyword

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By keyword, I mean when they type something in the search box
Such as `JIRA-1234`, without specifying `key ~ JIRA-1234` but they can respond the right context of that search.
I'm wondering if there is any API for this.