Colossal Biosciences Discovery API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Colossal Biosciences Content API (WordPress REST wp/v2) Discovery API
  version: wp/v2
  summary: 'Public read surface of colossal.com content: news posts, pages, media, taxonomies, comments and site search.'
  description: 'Colossal Biosciences publishes colossal.com on WordPress, which exposes the WordPress REST API at https://colossal.com/wp-json/. The wp/v2 namespace is anonymously readable and returns the company''s newsroom posts, marketing pages, media library, categories, tags, comments and a site-wide search endpoint as JSON.


    This document was DERIVED mechanically by API Evangelist from the route-discovery document served at https://colossal.com/wp-json/ on 2026-08-02 - every path, method and parameter below is taken verbatim from that descriptor. Colossal Biosciences does not publish an OpenAPI definition of its own, and this is not a product API: it is the content API the CMS exposes. Write operations exist on these routes but require authentication (WordPress Application Passwords over HTTP Basic).'
  contact:
    name: Colossal Biosciences
    url: https://colossal.com/
  x-derived-by: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline
  x-derived-from: https://colossal.com/wp-json/
  x-derived-on: '2026-08-02'
  x-provider-published: false
servers:
- url: https://colossal.com/wp-json
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Discovery
paths:
  /wp/v2/statuses:
    get:
      operationId: getStatuses
      summary: GET /wp/v2/statuses
      tags:
      - Discovery
      parameters:
      - name: context
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - view
          - embed
          - edit
          default: view
        description: Scope under which the request is made; determines fields present in response.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type:
                - array
                - object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
  /wp/v2/statuses/{status}:
    parameters:
    - name: status
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: WordPress statuses identifier.
    get:
      operationId: getStatusesStatus
      summary: GET /wp/v2/statuses/{status}
      tags:
      - Discovery
      parameters:
      - name: context
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - view
          - embed
          - edit
          default: view
        description: Scope under which the request is made; determines fields present in response.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type:
                - array
                - object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
  /wp/v2/taxonomies:
    get:
      operationId: getTaxonomies
      summary: GET /wp/v2/taxonomies
      tags:
      - Discovery
      parameters:
      - name: context
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - view
          - embed
          - edit
          default: view
        description: Scope under which the request is made; determines fields present in response.
      - name: type
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Limit results to taxonomies associated with a specific post type.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type:
                - array
                - object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
  /wp/v2/taxonomies/{taxonomy}:
    parameters:
    - name: taxonomy
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: WordPress taxonomies identifier.
    get:
      operationId: getTaxonomiesTaxonomy
      summary: GET /wp/v2/taxonomies/{taxonomy}
      tags:
      - Discovery
      parameters:
      - name: context
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - view
          - embed
          - edit
          default: view
        description: Scope under which the request is made; determines fields present in response.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type:
                - array
                - object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
  /wp/v2/types:
    get:
      operationId: getTypes
      summary: GET /wp/v2/types
      tags:
      - Discovery
      parameters:
      - name: context
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - view
          - embed
          - edit
          default: view
        description: Scope under which the request is made; determines fields present in response.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type:
                - array
                - object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
  /wp/v2/types/{type}:
    parameters:
    - name: type
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: WordPress types identifier.
    get:
      operationId: getTypesType
      summary: GET /wp/v2/types/{type}
      tags:
      - Discovery
      parameters:
      - name: context
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - view
          - embed
          - edit
          default: view
        description: Scope under which the request is made; determines fields present in response.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type:
                - array
                - object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/WpError'
components:
  schemas:
    WpError:
      type: object
      description: The standard WordPress REST API error envelope.
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          examples:
          - rest_forbidden
        message:
          type: string
          examples:
          - Sorry, you are not allowed to do that.
        data:
          type: object
          properties:
            status:
              type: integer
              examples:
              - 401
      required:
      - code
      - message
  responses:
    WpError:
      description: WordPress REST API error.
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/WpError'
  securitySchemes:
    applicationPassword:
      type: http
      scheme: basic
      description: WordPress Application Passwords, advertised by the site at https://colossal.com/wp-json/ under authentication.application-passwords; authorization endpoint https://colossal.com/wp-admin/authorize-application.php. Read operations on wp/v2 are anonymous.