This documentation does not apply to the most recent version of Splunk.
This documentation applies to the following versions of Splunk: 3.0 , 3.0.1 , 3.0.2 , 3.1 , 3.1.1 , 3.1.2 , 3.1.3 , 3.1.4
Yes. See our Developer's Manual.
Yes, you can save, schedule and set alerting options for any search via email, RSS and custom scripts.