Solr - Getting facet counts without returning search results

Question

Hi

I need to return only the facet counts from solr. So I basically want to search over all documents and return the facet counts, but I don't want to return any search results. Is this possible?

Thanks

Answer 1

I guess the obvious solutiion would be to search using a wildcard and specify that you want zero results returned.

That's my solution so far.

Answer 2

Setting &facet=true will enable faceting and setting rows=0 will prevent any results being returned. Conviently the numFound will show you how many results were found.