Bright Data

Bright Data Archive API

The Archive API from Bright Data — 4 operation(s) for archive.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 4

POST /webarchive/search Submit a Web Archive Search #

GET /webarchive/search/{search_id} Get Web Archive Search #

GET /webarchive/searches List Web Archive Searches #

POST /webarchive/deliver-to-cloud Deliver Archive Search to Cloud Storage #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Bright Data Web Archive API
  description: 'The Web Archive API exposes Bright Data''s petabyte-scale historical web index across 250+ domains.

    Submit a search via `POST /webarchive/search`, monitor with `GET /webarchive/search/{search_id}`,

    list all searches via `GET /webarchive/searches`, and deliver matching corpora to S3/Azure/GCS

    via `POST /webarchive/deliver-to-cloud`.

    '
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: Bright Data
    url: https://docs.brightdata.com
servers:
- url: https://api.brightdata.com
  description: Production
security:
- BearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Archive
paths:
  /webarchive/search:
    post:
      summary: Submit a Web Archive Search
      operationId: submitArchiveSearch
      tags:
      - Archive
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - domain
              properties:
                domain:
                  type: string
                query:
                  type: string
                from_date:
                  type: string
                  format: date
                to_date:
                  type: string
                  format: date
                limit:
                  type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search submitted.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  search_id:
                    type: string
  /webarchive/search/{search_id}:
    parameters:
    - name: search_id
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
    get:
      summary: Get Web Archive Search
      operationId: getArchiveSearch
      tags:
      - Archive
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search status and results pointer.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  search_id:
                    type: string
                  status:
                    type: string
                    enum:
                    - pending
                    - running
                    - ready
                    - failed
                  records:
                    type: integer
                  download_url:
                    type: string
                    format: uri
  /webarchive/searches:
    get:
      summary: List Web Archive Searches
      operationId: listArchiveSearches
      tags:
      - Archive
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of searches.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    search_id:
                      type: string
                    domain:
                      type: string
                    status:
                      type: string
                    created:
                      type: string
                      format: date-time
  /webarchive/deliver-to-cloud:
    post:
      summary: Deliver Archive Search to Cloud Storage
      operationId: deliverArchiveToCloud
      tags:
      - Archive
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - search_id
              - destination
              properties:
                search_id:
                  type: string
                destination:
                  type: object
                  properties:
                    type:
                      type: string
                      enum:
                      - s3
                      - azure
                      - gcs
                    bucket:
                      type: string
                    credentials:
                      type: object
                      additionalProperties: true
                format:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - json
                  - ndjson
                  - parquet
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Delivery scheduled.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
components:
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer