EdgeChat Rank API

The Rank API from EdgeChat — 2 operation(s) for rank.

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Operations 2

GET /rank PageRank of up to 50 articles #
GET /rank/top The most central articles #

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OpenAPI Specification

edgechat-ai-rank-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Edgepedia Rank API
  version: '1'
  description: Read-only JSON access to the Edgepedia encyclopedia articles. Keyless. 600 requests a minute and 100,000 a day per IP address (429 with Retry-After past that). Free with credit under the Edgepedia Community License 1.0; AI training is open to everyone.
  license:
    name: Edgepedia Community License 1.0
    url: https://www.edgechat.ai/edgepedia/license
  contact:
    url: https://www.edgechat.ai/developers
    name: EdgeChat
    email: olivia.jin@biostate.ai
  x-logo:
    url: https://www.edgechat.ai/assets/edgechat-chestnut-orange-logo-v2.png
    altText: EdgeChat
    backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF'
    href: https://www.edgechat.ai/developers
  x-origin:
  - format: openapi
    version: '3.1'
    url: https://www.edgechat.ai/openapi.json
servers:
- url: https://www.edgechat.ai/api/v1
tags:
- name: Rank
paths:
  /rank:
    get:
      operationId: getRank
      summary: PageRank of up to 50 articles
      description: pr sums to 1; rank 1 is the most central.
      parameters:
      - name: ids
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Comma-separated ids.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: ep7rbwcy0a
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/fields'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GetRankResponse'
              examples:
                live:
                  summary: GET https://www.edgechat.ai/api/v1/rank?ids=ep7rbwcy0a
                  description: 'A live answer of 2026-10-07: arrays cut to two items, long text cut with an ellipsis.'
                  value:
                    ranks:
                      ep7rbwcy0a:
                        slug: koala
                        title: Koala
                        pr: 4.19991e-07
                        rank: 222907
                    missing: []
                    license:
                      name: Edgepedia Community License 1.0
                      url: https://www.edgechat.ai/edgepedia/license
                      summary: Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. For other uses, organizations over USD 100M in revenue or 100M monthly users license separately.
          headers:
            RateLimit-Policy:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy'
            ETag:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/ETag'
            Last-Modified:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/Last-Modified'
            Content-Digest:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/Content-Digest'
            Edgepedia-Corpus-Version:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/Edgepedia-Corpus-Version'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '503':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
      tags:
      - Rank
  /rank/top:
    get:
      operationId: getRankTop
      summary: The most central articles
      description: 'Optionally within a topic. `complete: false` means the route''s time budget cut the answer short; such an answer is cached for a minute only.'
      parameters:
      - name: topic
        in: query
        required: false
        description: ''
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: limit
        in: query
        required: false
        description: ''
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 100
        example: '5'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/fields'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/GetRankTopResponse'
              examples:
                live:
                  summary: GET https://www.edgechat.ai/api/v1/rank/top?limit=5
                  description: 'A live answer of 2026-10-07: arrays cut to two items, long text cut with an ellipsis.'
                  value:
                    limit: 5
                    complete: true
                    results:
                    - id: ep3mzvga97
                      slug: renaissance
                      title: Renaissance
                      topic: Society and history
                      excerpt: The Renaissance, or Il Rinascimento, was a European cultural movement from the 14th to the 17th century that began in Florence and revived classical art, literature, and philosophy.
                      node: society.history.europe.western.renaissance
                      rank: 1
                      pr: 0.00112876
                      url: https://www.edgechat.ai/renaissance
                      api_url: https://www.edgechat.ai/api/v1/articles/renaissance
                    - id: ep56nd5tmx
                      slug: constantinople
                      title: Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις)
                      topic: Society and history
                      excerpt: Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις), founded by Constantine I in 330 on the site of Byzantium, served as capital of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman empires until 1922.
                      node: society.history.europe.eastern-europe.ee-byzantium.institutions-law-and-military
                      rank: 2
                      pr: 0.00112038
                      url: https://www.edgechat.ai/constantinople
                      api_url: https://www.edgechat.ai/api/v1/articles/constantinople
                    license:
                      name: Edgepedia Community License 1.0
                      url: https://www.edgechat.ai/edgepedia/license
                      summary: Free with credit, commercial use included. AI training is open to everyone. For other uses, organizations over USD 100M in revenue or 100M monthly users license separately.
          headers:
            RateLimit-Policy:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/RateLimit-Policy'
            ETag:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/ETag'
            Last-Modified:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/Last-Modified'
            Content-Digest:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/Content-Digest'
            Edgepedia-Corpus-Version:
              $ref: '#/components/headers/Edgepedia-Corpus-Version'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '503':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
      tags:
      - Rank
components:
  headers:
    RateLimit-Policy:
      description: 'The limiter''s two windows, per IP address and per server instance (IETF RateLimit header fields): 600 requests a minute and 100,000 a day.'
      schema:
        type: string
        example: '"minute";q=600;w=60, "day";q=100000;w=86400'
    Content-Digest:
      description: sha-256 of the body (RFC 9530).
      schema:
        type: string
    Edgepedia-Corpus-Version:
      description: The corpus release that answered.
      schema:
        type: string
    Last-Modified:
      description: The corpus release date (informational; only the ETag validates).
      schema:
        type: string
    ETag:
      description: A hash of the body; send it back as If-None-Match for a 304.
      schema:
        type: string
  responses:
    Error:
      description: 'An error: { error: { code, message } }'
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  schemas:
    GetRankTopResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        limit:
          type: integer
        complete:
          type: boolean
          description: 'false when the route''s time budget (about a second) cut the answer short: fewer results or edges, or importance by in-degree alone. Such an answer is cached for a minute only.'
        results:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            properties:
              id:
                type: string
              slug:
                type: string
              title:
                type: string
              topic:
                type: string
              excerpt:
                type: string
              node:
                type: string
              rank:
                type: integer
              pr:
                type: number
              url:
                type: string
              api_url:
                type: string
        license:
          type: object
          properties:
            name:
              type: string
            url:
              type: string
            summary:
              type: string
      description: 'Shape read from a live answer of 2026-10-07; fields may be added, never renamed or removed. Every field is optional: an answer carries the fields of its own branch.'
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
            message:
              type: string
            hint:
              type: string
            next:
              type: string
              format: uri
            did_you_mean:
              type: array
              items:
                type: object
                properties:
                  id:
                    type: string
                  slug:
                    type: string
                  title:
                    type: string
                  api_url:
                    type: string
          required:
          - code
          - message
      required:
      - error
    GetRankResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        ranks:
          type: object
          description: Keyed by each id as asked (an ep… id, an older id, or an address).
          additionalProperties:
            type: object
            properties:
              id:
                type: string
                description: The ep… id, when the key is not one.
              slug:
                type: string
              title:
                type: string
              pr:
                type: number
              rank:
                type: integer
        missing:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        license:
          type: object
          properties:
            name:
              type: string
            url:
              type: string
            summary:
              type: string
      description: 'Shape read from a live answer of 2026-10-07; fields may be added, never renamed or removed. Every field is optional: an answer carries the fields of its own branch.'
  parameters:
    fields:
      name: fields
      in: query
      required: false
      description: 'Comma-separated keys: each result (or the answer, when it has no results) keeps only these.'
      schema:
        type: string