# Aleph Alpha Search Store API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-search-store-api/  
**Provider:** Aleph Alpha — https://apis.io/providers/aleph-alpha/  
**Base URL:** https://api.aleph-alpha.com  
**Documentation:** https://docs.aleph-alpha.com/phariaai-dev-guide/latest/pharia-openapi/pharia-inference/index.html

Aleph Alpha Search Store API is one of 37 APIs that [Aleph Alpha](https://apis.io/providers/aleph-alpha/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Search Store. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

A Search Store is a structured data repository optimized for indexing and retrieving searchable entities. It supports full-text search, metadata-based filtering, and relevance ranking. Each Search Store can manage multiple indexed documents, making it ideal for fast, scalable information retrieval across different modalities.

## Operations (7)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| POST | `/search_stores` | Create a new Search Store instance for indexing and retrieval. |
| GET | `/search_stores` | Lists all search store. |
| GET | `/search_stores/{searchStoreID}` | Fetch details of a specific Search Store by its ID. |
| PATCH | `/search_stores/{searchStoreID}` | Update metadata of an existing Search Store. |
| DELETE | `/search_stores/{searchStoreID}` | Delete a Search Store and all its associated documents. |
| GET | `/search_stores/{searchStoreID}/transitioning` | Get count of all documents in a Search Store that are currently being embedded or archived. |
| POST | `/search_stores/{searchStoreID}/search` | Perform a semantic search within the specified Search Store. |

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aleph-alpha/refs/heads/main/openapi/aleph-alpha-search-store-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aleph-alpha.com/phariaai-dev-guide/latest/pharia-openapi/pharia-inference/v4.7.0.html
- **Documentation** — https://docs.aleph-alpha.com/phariaai-dev-guide/latest/responses-api/index.html

## Other Aleph Alpha APIs (12)

- [Aleph Alpha API description API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-api-description-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Application Traces API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-application-traces-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Benchmark Executions API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-benchmark-executions-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Benchmarks API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-benchmarks-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Cluster API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-cluster-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Collection API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-collection-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Connectors API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-connectors-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Conversations API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-conversations-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Datasets API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-datasets-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Document API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-document-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Downloads API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-downloads-api/)
- [Aleph Alpha Evaluation Datasets API](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-evaluation-datasets-api/)

## Tags

Search Store

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/aleph-alpha/aleph-alpha-search-store-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/aleph-alpha/.