Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences Discovery API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Colossal Content API (WordPress REST wp/v2) Discovery API
  version: wp/v2
  summary: 'Public read surface of colossal.com content: news and science posts, marketing and species pages, the media library, taxonomies, contributor profiles and site-wide search.'
  description: 'Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences publishes colossal.com on WordPress (WP Engine), which exposes the WordPress REST API at https://colossal.com/wp-json/. The wp/v2 namespace is anonymously readable and returns the company''s news and science posts (238 published), marketing / species / FAQ pages (59 published), the media library (990 items), categories (15), tags (156), contributor profiles (8) and a site-wide search endpoint (297 indexed objects) as JSON.


    This document was DERIVED mechanically by API Evangelist from the route-discovery document served at https://colossal.com/wp-json/ on 2026-08-09 — every path, method and parameter below is taken verbatim from that descriptor. Colossal 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).


    Colossal''s custom content types visible in the sitemap — papers, podcast episodes, team members, FAQs and PDFs — are NOT registered with the REST API (show_in_rest false), so they do not appear here and cannot be read as JSON.'
  contact:
    name: Colossal Laboratories & Biosciences
    url: https://colossal.com/
  x-derived-by: API Evangelist enrichment pipeline
  x-derived-from: https://colossal.com/wp-json/
  x-derived-on: '2026-08-09'
  x-provider-published: false
servers:
- url: https://colossal.com/wp-json
  description: Production
tags:
- name: Discovery
paths:
  /wp/v2:
    get:
      operationId: getRoot
      summary: GET /wp/v2
      tags:
      - Discovery
      parameters:
      - name: namespace
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          default: wp/v2
      - name: context
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          default: view
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /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: object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /wp/v2/statuses/{status}:
    parameters:
    - name: status
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Path segment taken verbatim from the WordPress route pattern.
    get:
      operationId: getStatusesByStatus
      summary: GET /wp/v2/statuses/{status}
      tags:
      - Discovery
      parameters:
      - name: status
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: An alphanumeric identifier for the status.
      - 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: object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /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: object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
  /wp/v2/types/{type}:
    parameters:
    - name: type
      in: path
      required: true
      schema:
        type: string
      description: Path segment taken verbatim from the WordPress route pattern.
    get:
      operationId: getTypesByType
      summary: GET /wp/v2/types/{type}
      tags:
      - Discovery
      parameters:
      - name: type
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: An alphanumeric identifier for the post type.
      - 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: object
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: No route or resource matched (rest_no_route / rest_post_invalid_id).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/WpError'
    BadRequest:
      description: Invalid parameter (rest_invalid_param).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/WpError'
    Forbidden:
      description: Authenticated but not permitted (rest_cannot_view / rest_forbidden).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/WpError'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Authentication required or rejected (rest_forbidden / rest_not_logged_in).
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/WpError'
  schemas:
    WpError:
      type: object
      description: The WordPress REST API error envelope (WP_Error serialized to JSON).
      properties:
        code:
          type: string
          description: Machine-readable error code, e.g. rest_forbidden.
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable error message.
        data:
          type: object
          properties:
            status:
              type: integer
  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.