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Show the posters

Posters ride along with each result, but nobody searches for a film by its image address.

What a resource is

A resource is a value carried with each result purely so your app can use it: a poster URL, a deep link, a price, an external ID. It's returned in every search response, but never indexed — so it doesn't bloat or slow your search.

The three field types, side by side:

Field typeSearch it?Filter by it?Returned?Good for
SearchableYesNoYestitle, plot, tagline
FacetNoYesYesgenre, year, rating
ResourceNoNoYesposter URL, deep link, ID

Add a poster field

On the movies list, choose Fields then Add Resource Field, and name it poster_url.

The Add Resource Field dialog with the name 'poster_url'

Edit each film and paste in its poster address:

The movies list showing a poster_url resource column

It comes back with every result

Search as normal. The poster is in the response, ready to drop into an <img> tag:

GET https://api.searchstack.dev/search/Demo/movies/1?query=matrix
X-API-Key: {your key}
{
  "results": [
    {
      "name": "The Matrix",
      "fields": {
        "genre": "Sci-Fi",
        "year": 1999,
        "poster_url": "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/f89U3ADr1oiB1s9GkdPOEpXUk5H.jpg"
      }
    }
  ],
  "count": 1,
  "total_count": 1
}

Which type to pick:

  • A visitor might type it → searchable.
  • A visitor might click it to narrow results → facet.
  • Your app just displays it → resource.

Go deeper: Resource fields and how the field types differ in the reference.

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