ISHOB Search API

The Search API from ISHOB — 2 operation(s) for search.

Operations 2

POST /v1/search Full-text + technical-spec search (paid) #
GET /api/search Search (free) #

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OpenAPI Specification

ishob-search-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: ISHOB Search API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: 'ISHOB is an x402-enabled utility gateway for autonomous agents: scheduled callbacks (agent alarms), token and wallet security checks, weather and location risk, document rendering, web extraction, company data and an open-licence research archive. Pay per call in USDC on Base; no account or API key.'
  contact:
    name: ISHOB
    email: contact@ishob.com
    url: https://ishob.com
  x-guidance: 'ISHOB is a gateway of tools for AI agents. Every operation with x-payment-info is paid per call with x402 (USDC on Base): call it, read the 402 PAYMENT-REQUIRED header, sign with an x402 client and retry. Invalid input is rejected with 400 before any payment is requested. The same tools are available over MCP at POST /mcp. Tool docs: https://ishob.com/tools'
servers:
- url: https://api.ishob.com
tags:
- name: Search
paths:
  /v1/search:
    post:
      operationId: search_specs
      summary: Full-text + technical-spec search (paid)
      x-payment:
        protocol: x402
        version: 2
        scheme: exact
        network: eip155:8453
        asset: USDC
        price_usd: '0.001'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Result (JSON); PAYMENT-RESPONSE header carries the settlement receipt
        '400':
          description: Invalid input (no payment requested)
        '402':
          description: 'Payment required: PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (base64 JSON) lists accepted payment requirements'
        '403':
          description: robots.txt disallows the target (no payment requested)
        '404':
          description: Not found (no payment requested)
        '503':
          description: Backend temporarily unavailable (no payment requested)
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
              required:
              - query
              properties:
                query:
                  type: string
                  description: Words and optional numeric constraints
                category:
                  type: string
                  enum:
                  - general
                  - tech_specs
            example:
              query: torque sensor 50 Nm
      x-payment-info:
        price:
          mode: fixed
          currency: USD
          amount: '0.001'
        protocols:
        - x402: {}
      tags:
      - Search
  /api/search:
    get:
      summary: Search (free)
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: topic
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: year_from
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: year_to
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: license
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: fulltext
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: limit
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
      - name: offset
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Results
        '400':
          description: Invalid query
      security: []
      tags:
      - Search
      operationId: getApiSearch
      x-operation-id-source: derived