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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Marginalia Search API
  description: The Marginalia Search API provides programmatic access to the Marginalia independent search engine, focused on non-commercial content. The new API is hosted at api2.marginalia-search.com; legacy endpoints at api.marginalia.nu and api.marginalia-search.com remain available but deprecated. Search results are available under CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 for non-commercial use.
  version: 2.0.0
  contact:
    name: Marginalia Search
    email: contact@marginalia-search.com
    url: https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/api/
  license:
    name: CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0
    url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
servers:
- url: https://api2.marginalia-search.com
  description: Marginalia Search API v2 (current)
- url: https://api.marginalia-search.com
  description: Legacy API endpoint
- url: https://api.marginalia.nu
  description: Legacy API endpoint (original)
security:
- APIKey: []
tags:
- name: Search
  description: Search the Marginalia index.
paths:
  /search:
    get:
      operationId: search
      summary: Execute a web search
      description: Run a search query against the Marginalia index and return ranked results. Optional parameters allow paging, per-domain capping, NSFW filtering, and named filter application.
      tags:
      - Search
      parameters:
      - name: query
        in: query
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Search terms.
      - name: count
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 100
        description: Number of results to return.
      - name: timeout
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 50
          maximum: 250
        description: Maximum execution time in milliseconds.
      - name: dc
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
          maximum: 100
        description: Maximum results per domain.
      - name: page
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
        description: Result page (1-indexed).
      - name: nsfw
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          enum:
          - 0
          - 1
        description: NSFW content filtering (experimental).
      - name: filter
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Apply a named filter previously created via /filter.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search results.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchResponse'
        '401':
          description: Missing or invalid API key.
        '429':
          description: Rate limit exceeded.
components:
  schemas:
    SearchResult:
      type: object
      properties:
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
        title:
          type: string
        description:
          type: string
    SearchResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        query:
          type: string
          description: The submitted search query.
        license:
          type: string
          description: Licensing terms applicable to the returned results.
        results:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchResult'
  securitySchemes:
    APIKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: API-Key
      description: API key supplied via the API-Key header. A public testing key is documented; commercial and non-commercial keys are issued by contact@marginalia-search.com or via Polar.
externalDocs:
  description: Marginalia Search API Documentation
  url: https://about.marginalia-search.com/article/api/