SharePoint API to get Crawling information - sharepoint

I'm trying to create a custom report that shows Current Crawling Time/Duration with Status on either Full or Incremental Crawl.
Does anyone know what the API that I can use to get such the information?

It is the Microsoft.Office.Server.Search.Administration.CrawlHistory class.
The SDK even has an article on this:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc789570.aspx

Not sure of the name but here is a good series of articles on the search API and may point you in the correct direction if someone cannot provide the full name.
http://www.helloitsliam.com/archive/2009/05/01/moss2007-–-using-the-search-api-part-1.aspx

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Netsuite Sitebuilder My Reference Checkout 3D secuer

I'm creating a new sitebuilder website, and have successfully set up "My Reference Checkout". However, we haven't been able to get it integrated with 3D secure, meaning that no customers can check out (unless we remove all the security, which we don't want to do).
Looking at netsuite's documentation on SuiteAnswers here, it gives us some very generic pointers about how we have to create some .ss and .js files, and modify some existing front-end code in Custom checkout. However, AFAICT the examples are not useful - they don't tell us where to put these ss & js files, where to modify the front end, and some of the files don't even seen to be related etc.
Does anyone have any better documentation for how to integrate with 3D secure, or please can someone point me in the right direction?
Any help is greatly appreciated!
Thanks!
This is a pretty broad question, and old, so you may have found the answer, but I would recommend reading and searching at this resource: https://devsc.publishpath.com. It uses your netsuite login and password. There is a blog post at this location: http://devsc.publishpath.com/Default.aspx?p=2079436&Add=Show+Post&Key=Show+Post&ContentID=5226425&PostID=1200364&shortcut=developing-your-first-custom-suitecommerce-advanced-module-part-1 that goes through setting up the reference cart if you are using it.
Outside of that here is a brief overview. The SSP and SS pages are setup using a utility in Netsuite under Setup/Site Builder/(Sub-Heading-Web Site Management)SSP applications. Here you set where in the Netsuite file system your SSP and SS pages are. The files themselves should be somewhere in your file structure under your hosting root. They load in order of precedence and have to be deployed. For certain activities (like logging in or checking out) you need to set up touchpoints.

Sharepoint to replace a fileshare

Is Sharepoint my best option to replace an aging network of fileshares? There's approx 1TB of data residing among 3 fileshares (1 DFS, 2 NAS boxes). A document management system is in place for new things - the file shares are now just read-only archives/legacy. Our users would simply need to be able to search for and open the documents.
Users are finding it difficult to locate their documents in the file shares and windows search does not often help. Sharepoint was suggested as something which would play nicely with Office documents (99% of the content) and have a good search facility.
Not being a Sharepoint Developer or having had any training on it, I'm getting a little lost. I have set up a test server to try it out using SP2013. I have managed to index each of my file shares and have created a search page. However, results aren't consistent with the indexted items. I assume I need to somehow get the relevant metadata from the files but I have no idea how to go about this.
Could anyone suggest some resources for help on this subject (my searches have mainly turned up paid-for Sharepoint addons or outdated blogs) and any experience of doing something similar? Also happy for any suggestions on ways to achieve this using other software/platforms.
I went with Microsoft Search Server 2010 in the end.
Sharepoint is basically optimized to be a document manager. I think you don't need to buy or donwload addons.
For your problem, metadata are the key! You need to properly specify the metadata.
I give you the theory of a plan document management in SharePoint 2013 :
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc263266.aspx
A nice introduction to metadata :
http://fr.slideshare.net/gzelfond/document-management-in-sharepoint-without-folders-introduction-to-metadata
Be careful to use the Microsoft documentation for the beginning. From my experience, its difficult to start with this documentation because you have several things in it. There is also good books/ebooks that you can find easily to start well, and probably more simplified than MS documentation.

Need to find reports on Search. E.g. Top searched keyword, categories

I am using Azure search where it creates index on my database tables and shows results as expected.
Now I have a requirement where I need to find-out what are the words or items users have searched most or what was the pick time for search.
Is it possible to find any such reports with Azure Search?
Either by its portal or using the API or Code?
I'm on Azure Search team, thanks for using the service. Currently it's not possible, however, we understand the importance of this feature and we're working to deliver it. No exact dates yet. For now, you'd have to collect and aggregate the information you need on the client side.
For feature request like this, feel free to use our User Voice page to help us prioritize work: http://feedback.azure.com/forums/263029-azure-search

sharepoint 2010 search not returning results

I have searched unsuccessfully for a number of days to try and resolve an issue with the search not returning results in Sharepoint 2010. Basically the search has successfully crawled the content and indexed the results but the search is returning no results on our site.
The codebase is the same as other servers that does return results so we are confident it's not a coding issue, but is a sharepoint issue. We can reach the search queryex webservice also
I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on possible settings / things to check to try and kickstart this search!
This is my first question on stackoverflow, so please advise if I haven't added enough detail.
I'm fairly new to SO myself, but I'll help if I can! Quick couple of questions:
Is the search returning no results for all user types, including admin?
Is there an error returned when you submit a search or does it just say "no results"?
Are you using any custom web parts for displaying the search results, or is it OOB?
Do you have access to the ULS logs perchance? There may be further information there.
Are you using search scopes at all?
What domain account are you using for the search app pool? There's some info here about making sure you have the right type of identity - SharePoint 2010 search crawling but not displaying results
(Apologies for posting a comment-as-an-answer, but since my rep is below 50 I can't yet post comments on your question - still wanted to help though.)

SharePoint site space usage

I would like to find out how much space my group's SharePoint site uses (files + version history). However, I only have administrative access to my site, not the entire SharePoint instance, so I have to come up with my own solution. I'm interested in the total, but usage per individual file is also fine.
I've googled everything I could think of but couldn't find much that would help. SharePoint programming seems out of the question since I don't have access to the machine. SharePoint Web Services looked promising but none of the services provided seem to give me what I need. I also found a VBA library that lets me list the versions of a document: Office.DocumentLibraryVersion. However, this type does not include a "size" property - why not?
Anyway, I would be happy with either of the following solutions:
A library or API to be used from VBA, VB, or C# (or any other language, for that matter)
A SharePoint Web Service that provides file size/space usage information
A completely crazy script that uses http to iterate through all the folders/files/versions in the library and does insane pattern matching to figure out the size of each file, then adds them together and returns the grand total (SharePoint du)
I figured SO is the best forum for this question, but a non-programmatic solution is just as welcome. Basically, anything you can come up with would help. At this point, even "this is not possible" would be useful.
Thanks in advance.
There is a hidden page that does this... Cannot find it right now.
Check the 1033 directory and similar to /layouts/usage.aspx.
That page links to /layouts/storman.aspx. Unfortunately that page does not work if your site collection does not have a quota.
Go to Site Settings / Site Usage Report.
If what you are looking for is not there, I don't think you can do it with your level of access.
got to siote actions--> site administration-->site usage reports-->
you can get the site usgae report
if you want to get it in excel chart--> open your site in sharepoint designer-->site-->reports-->usage-->then you can get
usage summary
monthly summary
daily summary
daily page hits
etc

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