Craft Quantities Discovery API

Find a calculator, takeoff or worked example by what the job is.

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OpenAPI Specification

craftquantities-com-discovery-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Craftquantities Com Discovery API
  version: 1.6.0
  contact:
    url: https://craftquantities.com/api/
  license:
    name: CC BY 4.0
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  description: 'Operations tagged Discovery across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: craftquantities-com-openapi.json, craftquantities-com-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://api.craftquantities.com/v1
tags:
- name: Discovery
  description: Find a calculator, takeoff or worked example by what the job is.
paths:
  /search:
    get:
      operationId: search
      summary: Find a calculator
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
          minLength: 1
          maxLength: 200
        description: What the job is, in US, UK or Australian words.
      - name: limit
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 25
          default: 10
      - name: format
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - json
          - md
        description: 'md: the engine''s Markdown report as text/markdown (or send Accept: text/markdown); json, the default.'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Calculators, best first.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                - results
                properties:
                  results:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      required:
                      - id
                      - title
                      - url
                      properties:
                        id:
                          type: string
                          description: 'The result''s id: calculator:{slug}, takeoff:{id}, example:{slug} or diagnosis:{slug}.'
                        kind:
                          enum:
                          - calculator
                          - takeoff
                          - example
                          - diagnosis
                        title:
                          type: string
                        url:
                          type: string
                        description:
                          type: string
                        category:
                          type: string
                        slug:
                          type: string
        '400':
          description: The request was refused; every problem is listed.
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                - title
                - status
                - problems
                properties:
                  type:
                    type: string
                  title:
                    type: string
                  status:
                    type: integer
                  problems:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      required:
                      - input
                      - problem
                      properties:
                        input:
                          type: string
                        problem:
                          type: string
                        accepted:
                          type: array
                          items:
                            type: string
                  didYouMean:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: string
      tags:
      - Discovery
    servers:
    - url: https://api.craftquantities.com/v1
externalDocs:
  url: https://craftquantities.com/api/
  description: The API documentation
x-refined-from:
- craftquantities-com-openapi.json
- craftquantities-com-openapi.yml