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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
description: 'This service provides access to the full corpus of Lens scholarly works and Patent documents using the flexibility and convenience of a REST API. The versioned API allows you to combine and perform several search operations to programmatically retrieve results. The API documentation provides guidelines for getting you started with the API and details the request/response schema with examples.
The Lens uses token-based API authentication. You can request access to the Lens Scholarly API, Lens Patent API or PatSeq Bulk Downloads and manage your access tokens from your Lens user profile.'
version: ''
title: Lens Bulk API
license:
name: Terms of Use
url: https://about.lens.org/lens-api-terms-of-use/
tags:
- name: Bulk
description: Bulk files Operations
paths:
/bulk/scholarly/releases:
get:
security:
- Authorisation: []
tags:
- Bulk
summary: Get scholar bulk releases
operationId: bulk_get_scholar_releases
responses:
'200':
description: Valid response from the server
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ScholarlyPublicBulkInfoFiles'
'401':
description: Authentication credentials might be incorrect or missing
'429':
description: You have exceeded the number of allowed calls
/bulk/patent/releases:
get:
security:
- Authorisation: []
tags:
- Bulk
summary: Get patent bulk releases
operationId: bulk_get_patent_releases
responses:
'200':
description: Valid response from the server
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PatentPublicBulkInfoFiles'
'401':
description: Authentication credentials might be incorrect or missing
'429':
description: You have exceeded the number of allowed calls
/bulk/scholarly/release:
get:
security:
- Authorisation: []
tags:
- Bulk
summary: Get scholar bulk release
operationId: bulk_get_scholar_release
responses:
'200':
description: Valid response from the server
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ScholarlyPublicBulkFile'
'204':
description: No Content
'401':
description: Authentication credentials might be incorrect or missing
'429':
description: You have exceeded the number of allowed calls
/bulk/patent/release:
get:
security:
- Authorisation: []
tags:
- Bulk
summary: Get patent bulk release
operationId: bulk_get_patent_release
responses:
'200':
description: Valid response from the server
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PatentPublicBulkFile'
'204':
description: No Content
'401':
description: Authentication credentials might be incorrect or missing
'429':
description: You have exceeded the number of allowed calls
/bulk/download/{downloadAccessKey}:
get:
security:
- Authorisation: []
tags:
- Bulk
summary: Download release file
operationId: bulk_download_file
parameters:
- in: path
name: downloadAccessKey
required: true
description: downloadAccessKey acquired from the release endpoint
schema:
type: string
responses:
'200':
description: Data bytes
'401':
description: Authentication credentials might be incorrect or missing
'429':
description: You have exceeded the number of allowed calls
components:
schemas:
PatentPublicBulkFile:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/PublicBulkInfoFile'
- type: object
properties:
bulkDataProduct:
example: PATENT
fileName:
example: patent-202426-e7ba7cf3-9ecc-4277-a2b9-9bf75eba1c6d.jsonl.gz
ScholarlyPublicBulkFile:
allOf:
- $ref: '#/components/schemas/PublicBulkInfoFile'
- type: object
properties:
bulkDataProduct:
example: SCHOLARLY
fileName:
example: scholarly-202426-e7ba7cf3-9ecc-4277-a2b9-9bf75eba1c6d.jsonl.gz
PatentPublicBulkInfoFiles:
type: object
properties:
snapshot:
type: object
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PatentPublicBulkFile'
delta:
type: array
items:
type: object
$ref: '#/components/schemas/PatentPublicBulkFile'
PublicBulkInfoFile:
type: object
properties:
bulkDataProduct:
type: string
description: data product
dataVersion:
type: string
example: 202424
description: data release version
precursorDataVersion:
type: string
example: 202424
description: previous data release version in case of delta
records:
type: integer
example: 100000
description: Number of records in this file release
checksums:
type: object
properties:
crc32c:
example: taq1GQ==
type: string
crc32:
example: iYSjTg==
type: string
md5:
example: 765e80bd2e6ba51dbd0eef58389a086c
type: string
sha1:
example: c10ae676cb00308b3c1548f09a9cfc1fcc6a1129
type: string
sha512:
example: bfb60e01ac146a8b18e090ac183b294af5f14bfff9fffb479d2f2b40323cd686
type: string
description: Checksum to validate integrity of the downloaded file
fileName:
type: string
firstRecordId:
type: string
example: 000-200-000-994-866
description: First record Lens Id
lastRecordId:
type: string
example: 199-999-999-270-421
description: Last record Lens Id
dateProcessed:
type: string
format: date
example: '2024-07-03'
description: Date this release was processed
downloadAccessKey:
type: string
example: Xw_eu9fFQ0_2ffj6IimtRWSaG_...
description: Key to download this bulk using endpoint /bulk/download/{downloadAccessKey}
size:
type: string
example: 299611493018
description: Compressed size
rawSize:
type: string
example: 965612327943
description: Uncompressed size
discriminator:
propertyName: bulkDataProduct
ScholarlyPublicBulkInfoFiles:
type: object
properties:
snapshot:
type: object
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ScholarlyPublicBulkFile'
delta:
type: array
items:
type: object
$ref: '#/components/schemas/ScholarlyPublicBulkFile'
securitySchemes:
Authorisation:
type: apiKey
name: Authorization
description: Your access token created from your Lens user profile page
in: header
externalDocs:
description: Privacy Policy
url: https://about.lens.org/policies/#privacypolicy
x-provenance:
method: harvested
publisher: Lens
source: https://api.lens.org/swagger.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)