Colour Memory

Colour Memory Compare API

The Compare API from Colour Memory — 1 operation(s) for compare.

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Operations 1

POST /compare Compare Archives #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Colourmemory Com Compare API
  version: 2.3.4
  description: 'Operations tagged Compare across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: colourmemory-com-openapi.json, colourmemory-com-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://api.colourmemory.com
  description: Host serving this spec; also named as mcp_endpoint host in https://api.colourmemory.com/mcp discovery document (vendor PR Eye Ltd).
tags:
- name: Compare
paths:
  /compare:
    post:
      summary: Compare Archives
      description: 'Find the closest match to a colour from each archive independently.


        Accepts ONE of: hex value, colour name, or free-text query.

        Returns n_per_archive results from each available archive side by side.


        Useful for:

        - "How does the China archive describe this blue vs the Pigment archive?"

        - "What pigment name matches this British heritage colour?"

        - "Show me how all three archives see #2030A0"


        Examples:

        {"hex": "#2030A0", "n_per_archive": 2}

        {"name": "Jingtai Blue", "n_per_archive": 3}

        {"query": "the colour of autumn wheat fields", "n_per_archive": 2}'
      operationId: compare_archives_compare_post
      requestBody:
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              $ref: '#/components/schemas/CompareRequest'
        required: true
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema: {}
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
      tags:
      - Compare
components:
  schemas:
    ValidationError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Location
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Message
        type:
          type: string
          title: Error Type
        input:
          title: Input
        ctx:
          type: object
          title: Context
      type: object
      required:
      - loc
      - msg
      - type
      title: ValidationError
    CompareRequest:
      properties:
        hex_a:
          type: string
          title: Hex A
          default: ''
        hex_b:
          type: string
          title: Hex B
          default: ''
        hex:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          title: Hex
        name:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          title: Name
        query:
          anyOf:
          - type: string
          - type: 'null'
          title: Query
        n_per_archive:
          type: integer
          title: N Per Archive
          default: 2
      type: object
      title: CompareRequest
    HTTPValidationError:
      properties:
        detail:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
          type: array
          title: Detail
      type: object
      title: HTTPValidationError
x-refined-from:
- colourmemory-com-openapi.json
- colourmemory-com-openapi.yml