select pages with condition on page title using rest api

Question

I am using rest api to filter pages and fetch their title and url

//_api/search/query?querytext='Path:http:sharepointpath owstaxIdTaxKeyword:81394a-cedb-4c19
AND 
Title<>sometitle'&rowlimit=5& selectproperties='Title'&enablequeryrules=false

Its fetching from the paths that I specify, but the problem is I want to select pages that do not have title that I give ( Title<>sometitle ). But the query is still returning results with title sometitle What have I missed?

Answer 1

Try with this syntax instead:

NOT Title="sometitle"

So your query becomes

//_api/search/query?querytext='Path:http:sharepointpath owstaxIdTaxKeyword:81394a-cedb-4c19
AND NOT Title="sometitle"'&rowlimit=5& selectproperties='Title'&enablequeryrules=false