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openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Direct Index Editions 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: Editions
paths:
/editions/{q}.json:
get:
summary: 'The quarterly edition as data: cities ranked by kind, countries, vendors…'
parameters:
- name: q
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: string
example: 2026-q4
responses:
'200':
description: EditionData
'404':
description: No such edition
tags:
- Editions
operationId: getEditions{q}Json
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'