Govly Product Catalogs API

List government contract price lists and search their line items.

Operations 2

GET /api/tools/v1/product_catalogs List public product catalogs #
POST /api/tools/v1/product_catalogs/search Search product catalog items #

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OpenAPI Specification

govly-product-catalogs-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Govly Tools Product Catalogs API
  version: 1.0.0-alpha
  description: 'ALPHA / UNSTABLE: This API is still in active development. Endpoint behavior, request fields, response fields, error codes, and operation names may change before the Tools API is declared stable.

    REST-callable tool surface for agent and automation workflows. Agents are the primary consumer, but integrations can be built on this API. Responses are JSON for typed clients; MCP tools may render action results into text-oriented formats separately.

    Validating requests: validate against this schema in your client before sending. Govly ignores a request field it does not recognize rather than rejecting it, so a misspelled filter name is not applied — the response returns 200 with a broader result set than you intended, and nothing marks the difference. Where a request body declares `additionalProperties: false`, strict client-side validation is what catches that. Fields sent with the wrong type are rejected with 400 on most endpoints; validate types in your client too rather than relying on it.

    Rate limits: each resource (for example awards, opportunities, or workspaces) allows 70 requests per minute per user. Exceeding it returns 429 with the standard error envelope, `code: rate_limited`, and a `Retry-After` header. Keys sent in the `X-API-KEY` header are also subject to the Enterprise API limit of 300 requests per minute per key; see the Rate Limits page.'
servers:
- url: https://app.govly.com
security:
- bearerApiKey: []
- headerApiKey: []
tags:
- name: Product Catalogs
  description: List government contract price lists and search their line items.
paths:
  /api/tools/v1/product_catalogs:
    get:
      tags:
      - Product Catalogs
      operationId: list_product_catalogs
      summary: List public product catalogs
      description: List the public government contract price lists (product catalogs). Returns catalog metadata only, no pricing. Not paginated; the catalog set is small. Use the returned ids and groups to filter search_product_catalog.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Public catalogs
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                - data
                - meta
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProductCatalog'
                  meta:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProductCatalogListMeta'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
  /api/tools/v1/product_catalogs/search:
    post:
      tags:
      - Product Catalogs
      operationId: search_product_catalog
      summary: Search product catalog items
      description: Search line items across government contract price lists for negotiated pricing, part numbers, and availability, with the constrained public parameter set shared by MCP search_product_catalog. query is a fuzzy search over item descriptions, manufacturers, and part numbers; productCatalogIds, group, category, manufacturer, and priceRange are exact filters AND-combined with query. productCatalogIds is always intersected with the public catalogs, so any other ids drop out rather than erroring. Results are relevance-ordered; there is no sort control. Paginate with cursor; a request carrying a page number is rejected with 400.
      requestBody:
        required: false
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              additionalProperties: false
              properties:
                query:
                  type: string
                  maxLength: 500
                  description: Search text over item description, manufacturer, and part numbers.
                cursor:
                  type: string
                  description: 'Opaque cursor from a previous response''s meta.nextCursor. Omit for the first page.

                    '
                perPage:
                  type: integer
                  default: 25
                  description: 'Results per page. Default 25, maximum 100. Non-enterprise MCP access is capped at 50; REST access is Enterprise-only.

                    '
                productCatalogIds:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: integer
                  description: 'Restrict to these catalog ids, from list_product_catalogs. Intersected with the catalogs the caller may access.

                    '
                group:
                  type: string
                  description: 'Exact filter on catalog group, a free-text bucket set at upload (for example "ESI" for the DoD Enterprise Software Initiative).

                    '
                category:
                  type: string
                  description: Exact filter on the item's product category.
                manufacturer:
                  type: string
                  description: Exact filter on the item's manufacturer name.
                priceRange:
                  type: array
                  items:
                    type: number
                  minItems: 2
                  maxItems: 2
                  description: 'Filter on contract price as [min, max]. Items with no contract price are excluded when this is set.

                    '
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Matching catalog items
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                required:
                - data
                - meta
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProductCatalogItem'
                  meta:
                    $ref: '#/components/schemas/ProductCatalogSearchMeta'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '422':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Error'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
components:
  schemas:
    ProductCatalogSearchMeta:
      type: object
      description: 'Cursor pagination metadata for product catalog search. Results are relevance-ordered with a stable id tiebreaker, so following nextCursor neither repeats nor skips an item while the indexed results remain unchanged. Not CursorMeta, whose required count this endpoint does not emit.

        '
      required:
      - total
      - perPage
      - nextCursor
      properties:
        total:
          type: integer
          description: 'Total matching items (capped at 10,000 by the search engine). Pagination via nextCursor is not limited by this cap.

            '
        perPage:
          type: integer
        nextCursor:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: 'Opaque cursor for the next page; null when the results are exhausted.

            '
    RateLimitError:
      type: object
      required:
      - error
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
    ErrorEnvelope:
      type: object
      required:
      - errors
      properties:
        errors:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
            required:
            - status
            - code
            - title
            - detail
            properties:
              status:
                type: string
              code:
                type: string
              title:
                type: string
              detail:
                type: string
              source:
                type: object
                properties:
                  pointer:
                    type: string
    ProductCatalogListMeta:
      type: object
      description: 'Count metadata for the catalog list. The endpoint is not paginated, so this carries no page fields and does not use CursorMeta.

        '
      required:
      - totalCount
      properties:
        totalCount:
          type: integer
          description: Number of catalogs returned.
    ProductCatalogItem:
      type: object
      description: One line item in a product catalog, with its negotiated pricing.
      required:
      - id
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        itemIdentifier:
          type: string
          description: The catalog's own identifier for the item (CLIN, SKU, or similar).
        description:
          type: string
        manufacturer:
          type: string
        manufacturerPartNumber:
          type: string
        vendorPartNumber:
          type: string
        category:
          type: string
        subcategory:
          type: string
        contractNumber:
          type: string
        listPrice:
          type: number
        contractPrice:
          type: number
          description: The negotiated price, and the field priceRange filters on.
        discountPercentage:
          type: number
        productCatalog:
          type: object
          description: The catalog this item belongs to.
          properties:
            id:
              type: string
            name:
              type: string
    ProductCatalog:
      type: object
      description: A government contract price list. Metadata only; no pricing.
      required:
      - id
      - name
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        name:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
        group:
          type: string
          description: 'Free-text bucket set at upload, used to cluster related catalogs (for example "ESI"). No fixed vocabulary.

            '
        contractVehicleName:
          type: string
          description: The contract vehicle this catalog belongs to, when it has one.
        itemCount:
          type: integer
          description: Number of line items in the catalog.
        organizationOwned:
          type: boolean
          description: 'Always false. This endpoint returns only public catalogs, which no organization owns. The field is kept for response-shape compatibility.

            '
  responses:
    Error:
      description: Error response
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
    RateLimited:
      description: 'Too many requests. Two limiters can produce this status and they use different bodies. The per-user limit of 70 requests per minute for each resource returns the standard error envelope with `code: rate_limited` and a `Retry-After` header. Keys sent in the `X-API-KEY` header are also subject to the Enterprise API limit of 300 requests per minute per key, which returns the plain `error` form with `Retry-After` and the `X-RateLimit-*` headers. Clients should accept either body.

        '
      headers:
        Retry-After:
          description: Seconds to wait before retrying.
          schema:
            type: string
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            oneOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ErrorEnvelope'
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimitError'
  securitySchemes:
    bearerApiKey:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      bearerFormat: API key
    headerApiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-API-KEY
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: Govly
  source: https://docs.govly.com/openapi/tools-v1.yaml
  note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
    stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)