CrawlCheck Rights Feed API

The Rights Feed API from CrawlCheck — 2 operation(s) for rights feed.

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Operations 2

GET /api/v1/rights-feed Rights feed for crawler operators: the index of signed weekly editions covering… #
GET /api/v1/rights-feed/{id}/{file} One file of a finished rights-feed edition: manifest.json (signed… #

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OpenAPI Specification

crawlcheck-io-rights-feed-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Crawlcheck Io Rights Feed API
  version: '1'
  contact:
    name: CrawlCheck
    url: https://crawlcheck.io/policy
    email: hello@crawlcheck.io
  license:
    name: Terms
    url: https://crawlcheck.io/policy
  x-core-contract:
    promise: 'These operations are the core contract. They stay at /api/v1 and keep answering for at least 180 days after any /api/v2 is announced; their stable fields change only in a new major version, and their provisional fields only after 30 days'' notice, per /docs/api/compatibility. Verifying what they return needs none of these calls: crawlcheck-verify.mjs checks a document on your machine against the published keys (/.well-known/http-message-signatures-directory) and the rotation record, read once with --online or saved for --keys. Everything else documented here is useful but secondary, and may change with the notice its fields'' tags promise.'
    operations:
    - method: GET
      path: /api/v1/resolve
      operationId: resolveDomainV1
    - method: POST
      path: /api/v1/resolve
      operationId: resolveBatchV1
    - method: POST
      path: /api/v1/preflight
      operationId: preflightV1
    - method: GET
      path: /api/v1/decisions/{sha256}
      operationId: decisionCheckV1
    - method: GET
      path: /api/v1/revocations
      operationId: revocations
    - method: GET
      path: /api/v1/visitor
      operationId: visitorResolveV1
    - method: POST
      path: /api/v1/visitor
      operationId: visitorResolveBatchV1
    - method: GET
      path: /api/v1/mcp/scan
      operationId: mcpScanUrl
    - method: POST
      path: /api/v1/mcp/lock/check
      operationId: mcpLockCheck
    list: https://crawlcheck.io/api/v1/core
  description: 'Operations tagged Rights Feed across 2 of this provider''s published API definitions: crawlcheck-io-openapi.json, crawlcheck-io-openapi.yml. Each path carries the servers of the definition it was published in.'
servers:
- url: https://crawlcheck.io
tags:
- name: Rights Feed
paths:
  /api/v1/rights-feed:
    get:
      operationId: rightsFeedIndex
      summary: 'Rights feed for crawler operators: the index of signed weekly editions covering…'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: crawlcheck-rights-feed-index
          content:
            application/json:
              examples:
                worked:
                  value:
                    kind: crawlcheck-rights-feed-index
                    v: 1
                    generated_at: '2026-10-08T12:00:00.000Z'
                    spec: https://crawlcheck.io/spec/rights-feed
                    license: CC BY 4.0 (sample edition)
                    latest:
                      id: rf-2026-10-07-3fa1c2
                      sites: 9712
                      parts: 10
                      finished_at: '2026-10-08T11:17:00.000Z'
                      totals:
                        train:
                          denied: 2410
                          not_declared: 5980
                          restricted_by_terms: 611
                          unknown: 702
                          allowed: 9
                      manifest: https://crawlcheck.io/api/v1/rights-feed/rf-2026-10-07-3fa1c2/manifest.json
                      manifest_sha256: …
                    in_progress: null
                    editions: []
              schema:
                type:
                - object
                - 'null'
                properties:
                  kind:
                    type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                  v:
                    type:
                    - number
                    - 'null'
                  generated_at:
                    type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                  spec:
                    type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                  license:
                    type:
                    - string
                    - 'null'
                  latest:
                    type:
                    - object
                    - 'null'
                    properties:
                      id:
                        type:
                        - string
                        - 'null'
                      sites:
                        type:
                        - number
                        - 'null'
                      parts:
                        type:
                        - number
                        - 'null'
                      finished_at:
                        type:
                        - string
                        - 'null'
                      totals:
                        type:
                        - object
                        - 'null'
                        properties:
                          train:
                            type:
                            - object
                            - 'null'
                            properties:
                              denied:
                                type:
                                - number
                                - 'null'
                              not_declared:
                                type:
                                - number
                                - 'null'
                              restricted_by_terms:
                                type:
                                - number
                                - 'null'
                              unknown:
                                type:
                                - number
                                - 'null'
                              allowed:
                                type:
                                - number
                                - 'null'
                            additionalProperties: true
                        additionalProperties: true
                      manifest:
                        type:
                        - string
                        - 'null'
                      manifest_sha256: {}
                    additionalProperties: true
                  in_progress: {}
                  editions:
                    type:
                    - array
                    - 'null'
                    items: {}
                additionalProperties: true
                x-schema-source: worked-example
      x-codeSamples:
      - lang: Shell
        label: curl
        source: curl -s 'https://crawlcheck.io/api/v1/rights-feed'
      security: []
      x-auth: public; no credential read
      tags:
      - Rights Feed
    servers:
    - url: https://crawlcheck.io
  /api/v1/rights-feed/{id}/{file}:
    get:
      operationId: rightsFeedFile
      summary: 'One file of a finished rights-feed edition: manifest.json (signed…'
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: file
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: manifest or gzip part
          content:
            application/gzip:
              examples:
                worked:
                  value:
                    kind: crawlcheck-rights
                    v: 1
                    domain: example.com
                    rank: 412
                    read_at: '2026-10-07T07:02:11.000Z'
                    robots:
                      url: https://example.com/robots.txt
                      status: 200
                      readable: true
                      groups:
                      - agents:
                        - gptbot
                        allow: []
                        disallow:
                        - /
                      - agents:
                        - '*'
                        allow: []
                        disallow:
                        - /admin/
                        content_signal:
                        - 'Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-train=no'
                    page:
                      url: https://example.com/
                      status: 200
                      meta_robots: null
                      x_robots_tag: null
                    tdm: null
                    ai_txt: null
                    terms:
                      url: https://example.com/terms
                      status: 200
                      ai_clauses:
                      - You may not use the Content to train any artificial intelligence model without our prior written consent.
                    uses_at_root:
                      train:
                        value: denied
                        signal: Content-Signal
                        evidence: 'Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-train=no'
                        conflicts: 0
                        closed_to:
                        - GPTBot
                      cite:
                        value: allowed
                        signal: Content-Signal
                        evidence: 'Content-Signal: search=yes, ai-train=no'
                        conflicts: 0
                    sha256: …
                    signature: …
              schema:
                type: string
                x-schema-source: worked-example
        '404':
          description: no such edition or file
      x-codeSamples:
      - lang: Shell
        label: curl
        source: curl -s 'https://crawlcheck.io/api/v1/rights-feed/rf-2026-10-07-3fa1c2/part-0001.ndjson.gz' | gunzip | head -1
      security: []
      x-auth: public; no credential read
      tags:
      - Rights Feed
    servers:
    - url: https://crawlcheck.io
components:
  securitySchemes:
    licenceKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-crawlcheck-key
      description: 'Your licence key: cc_ followed by 32 hex characters. Sent on every keyed call.'
    bearer:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: The same licence key as a Bearer token. Accepted on /api/v1/* and /api/usage.
externalDocs:
  url: https://crawlcheck.io/docs/api
  description: Human-readable reference
x-refined-from:
- crawlcheck-io-openapi.json
- crawlcheck-io-openapi.yml