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Canonical Search API

The Search API from Canonical — 1 operation(s) for search.

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GET /api/v1/search Search (legacy v1) #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Canonical Snap Store Device Search API
  description: 'Public Snap Store Device API (api.snapcraft.io) used by snap clients to

    discover snaps, fetch metadata, refresh installed snaps, search the

    store, and download assertions.'
  version: v2
  contact:
    name: Canonical / Snapcraft
    url: https://api.snapcraft.io/docs/
servers:
- url: https://api.snapcraft.io
tags:
- name: Search
paths:
  /api/v1/search:
    get:
      summary: Search (legacy v1)
      parameters:
      - in: query
        name: q
        schema:
          type: string
      - in: query
        name: section
        schema:
          type: string
      - in: query
        name: fields
        schema:
          type: string
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/DeviceSeries'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Generic'
      tags:
      - Search
      operationId: getApiV1Search
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  responses:
    Generic:
      description: Generic JSON response.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Generic'
  parameters:
    DeviceSeries:
      in: header
      name: Snap-Device-Series
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
        default: '16'
      description: Snap device series; required by the Device API.
  schemas:
    Generic:
      type: object
      additionalProperties: true
x-generated-from: documentation
x-provenance-note: Hand-authored by API Evangelist from the publicly documented Snap Store Device API reference at https://api.snapcraft.io/docs/ — NOT harvested from a Canonical-published machine-readable contract, because Canonical publishes none for api.snapcraft.io. Marked 2026-09-05 so this file is never mistaken for a provider artifact. The specs Canonical does publish are the other thirteen documents in openapi/, each harvested verbatim.