Jetify Search API

The Search API from Jetify — 1 operation(s) for search.

OpenAPI Specification

jetify-search-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Nixhub Pkg Search API
  version: 2.0.0
  description: The Nixhub API lets you search over 1 million package versions for over 100,000 Nix packages. Search for packages, look up version history, and resolve a package name + version to a nixpkgs commit and flake installable for use with Devbox or Nix. Free for personal use, subject to IP-based rate limiting. Built and operated by Jetify.
  contact:
    name: Jetify
    url: https://www.jetify.com/docs/nixhub/
  termsOfService: https://www.jetify.com/legal/terms
servers:
- url: https://search.devbox.sh/v2
  description: Nixhub production API (v2)
tags:
- name: Search
paths:
  /search:
    get:
      operationId: searchPackages
      summary: Search Packages
      description: Search for packages in the Nixpkgs repository using a search query. The response includes a list of package names along with their description. To get available versions and installables for a package, use the returned name with /pkg.
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Search query.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OK
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchResponse'
        '400':
          description: 'Bad Request: empty search query (set a ?q=<query> query parameter)'
        '404':
          description: Not Found
      tags:
      - Search
components:
  schemas:
    SearchResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        query:
          type: string
          description: The search query sent to the /search endpoint.
        total_results:
          type: integer
          description: The total number of results for the search query.
        results:
          type: array
          description: A list of SearchResults that match the query. Empty if no results were found.
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchResult'
    SearchResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
          description: The name of the package that matched the search query.
        summary:
          type: string
          description: A short description of the package.
        last_updated:
          type: string
          description: The last time this package was updated in the Nixpkgs repo.