Search API major update

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For those using our search API, we've recently upgraded it and deprecated the old version.

Read our documentation for the specific syntax as well as example queries:

https://github.com/Sefaria/Sefaria-Project/wiki/Search-API

The main change is that we've moved from using search.sefaria.org to now use www.sefaria.org/api/search

The other change is that we upgraded ElasticSearch from version 2 to version 6. This means that old ElasticSearch query syntax won't work anymore. You can refer to our docs for common queries and you can read the ElasticSearch documentation for further information: https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/reference/6.2/search.html

Queries to the old API endpoint (search.sefaria.org) will return a deprecation message

Feel free to post here with any specific questions.