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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Direct Index Ask API
  version: '0.2'
  description: 'Agent-Direct Scores: whether AI agents can find, read and act on a business''s own website. Free, open data, no authentication for reads. An API key (optional, agency plan) only raises the scan limit.'
  contact:
    url: https://directindex.org/
servers:
- url: https://directindex.org
security:
- {}
- apiKey: []
tags:
- name: Ask
paths:
  /api/ask:
    post:
      summary: Ask the index a question in plain words; Claude answers from the index's own…
      security:
      - {}
      - apiKey: []
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - question
              properties:
                question:
                  type: string
                  example: Which Berlin restaurants on Wix serve their menu as a PDF?
      responses:
        '200':
          description: question, answer (Markdown), calls (tool, args, label), model, at, cached
        '400':
          description: No question
        '429':
          description: 10 questions a day per address without a key, 100 per key, and a daily cap for everyone
        '502':
          description: The model did not answer
      tags:
      - Ask
      operationId: postApiAsk
      x-operation-id-source: derived
    get:
      summary: How to call /api/ask and the limits
      responses:
        '200':
          description: endpoint, limits, page
      tags:
      - Ask
      operationId: getApiAsk
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: di_live_ followed by 32 hex characters
      description: 'Optional. Raises the new-scan limit to the key''s own (300 an hour on the agency plan) and attributes the call to the key; reads need no key and stay unlimited. Keys come with the agency plan: https://directindex.org/agency. Details: https://directindex.org/auth.md'