diff --git a/lite/Changes b/lite/Changes
index 36cf15e..8f9fa21 100644
--- a/lite/Changes
+++ b/lite/Changes
@@ -8,7 +8,8 @@
 2022-01-03
  - [security] More log4j security updates
  - Updated tests.
-
+2022-01-25
+ - Added show-tokens option to the search API.
 
 # version 0.64
 
diff --git a/lite/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/LiteSearchTokenSnippetTest.java b/lite/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/LiteSearchTokenSnippetTest.java
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..feb6308
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lite/src/test/java/de/ids_mannheim/korap/web/service/LiteSearchTokenSnippetTest.java
@@ -0,0 +1,78 @@
+package de.ids_mannheim.korap.web.service;
+
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertEquals;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertFalse;
+import static org.junit.Assert.assertTrue;
+
+import org.junit.Test;
+
+import com.fasterxml.jackson.databind.JsonNode;
+import com.sun.jersey.api.client.ClientResponse;
+
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.config.LiteJerseyTest;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.exceptions.KustvaktException;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.exceptions.StatusCodes;
+import de.ids_mannheim.korap.utils.JsonUtils;
+
+public class LiteSearchTokenSnippetTest extends LiteJerseyTest{
+
+    @Test
+    public void testSearchWithTokens () throws KustvaktException {
+        ClientResponse response = resource().path(API_VERSION).path("search")
+                .queryParam("q", "[orth=das]").queryParam("ql", "poliqarp")
+                .queryParam("show-tokens", "true")
+                .queryParam("context", "sentence").queryParam("count", "13")
+                .get(ClientResponse.class);
+
+        assertEquals(ClientResponse.Status.OK.getStatusCode(),
+                response.getStatus());
+        String ent = response.getEntity(String.class);
+        JsonNode node = JsonUtils.readTree(ent);
+
+        assertTrue(node.at("/matches/0/hasSnippet").asBoolean());
+        assertTrue(node.at("/matches/0/hasTokens").asBoolean());
+        assertTrue(node.at("/matches/0/tokens/left").size()>0);
+        assertTrue(node.at("/matches/0/tokens/right").size()>0);
+        assertEquals(1, node.at("/matches/0/tokens/match").size());
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void testSearchWithoutTokens () throws KustvaktException {
+        ClientResponse response = resource().path(API_VERSION).path("search")
+                .queryParam("q", "[orth=das]").queryParam("ql", "poliqarp")
+                .queryParam("show-tokens", "false")
+                .queryParam("context", "sentence").queryParam("count", "13")
+                .get(ClientResponse.class);
+
+        assertEquals(ClientResponse.Status.OK.getStatusCode(),
+                response.getStatus());
+        String ent = response.getEntity(String.class);
+        JsonNode node = JsonUtils.readTree(ent);
+
+        assertTrue(node.at("/matches/0/hasSnippet").asBoolean());
+        assertFalse(node.at("/matches/0/hasTokens").asBoolean());
+        assertTrue(node.at("/matches/0/tokens").isMissingNode());
+    }
+    
+    @Test
+    public void testSearchPublicMetadataWithTokens () throws KustvaktException {
+        ClientResponse response = resource().path(API_VERSION).path("search")
+                .queryParam("q", "[orth=das]").queryParam("ql", "poliqarp")
+                .queryParam("access-rewrite-disabled", "true")
+                .queryParam("show-tokens", "true")
+                .queryParam("context", "sentence").queryParam("count", "13")
+                .get(ClientResponse.class);
+
+        assertEquals(ClientResponse.Status.OK.getStatusCode(),
+                response.getStatus());
+        String ent = response.getEntity(String.class);
+        JsonNode node = JsonUtils.readTree(ent);
+
+        assertFalse(node.at("/matches/0/hasSnippet").asBoolean());
+        assertFalse(node.at("/matches/0/hasTokens").asBoolean());
+        assertTrue(node.at("/matches/0/snippet").isMissingNode());
+        assertTrue(node.at("/matches/0/tokens").isMissingNode());
+        
+        assertEquals(StatusCodes.NOT_ALLOWED, node.at("/warnings/0/0").asInt());
+    }
+}