McGill University Search API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: McGill University Dataverse (Borealis) - Native Dataverses Search API
  description: Dataverse Native REST API serving the McGill University Dataverse research-data repository on the Borealis (Scholars Portal) platform. Provides programmatic access to the McGill collection, its contents, and installation info. Faithful subset of the upstream Dataverse OpenAPI (Dataverse v6.8.1-SP); response schemas derived from verified live responses. Write/admin operations require an X-Dataverse-key API token.
  version: v6.8.1-SP
  contact:
    name: McGill Research Data Management
    email: rdm.library@mcgill.ca
  license:
    name: Apache-2.0
    url: https://github.com/IQSS/dataverse/blob/develop/LICENSE.md
servers:
- url: https://borealisdata.ca/api
  description: Borealis (Scholars Portal) Dataverse hosting the McGill University Dataverse
tags:
- name: Search
paths:
  /search:
    get:
      operationId: Search_search
      parameters:
      - name: fq
        in: query
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      - name: geo_point
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: geo_radius
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: metadata_fields
        in: query
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      - name: order
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: per_page
        in: query
        schema:
          format: int32
          type: integer
      - name: q
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: query_entities
        in: query
        schema:
          default: true
          type: boolean
      - name: search_service
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: show_api_urls
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: show_collections
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: show_entity_ids
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: show_facets
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: show_relevance
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: show_type_counts
        in: query
        schema:
          type: boolean
      - name: sort
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: start
        in: query
        schema:
          format: int32
          type: integer
      - name: subtree
        in: query
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      - name: type
        in: query
        schema:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      summary: Search the Dataverse installation
      description: Keyword, faceted, and geospatial search across Dataverse collections, datasets, and files. Scope to the McGill University Dataverse with subtree=mcgill.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search results.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                allOf:
                - $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
                - type: object
                  properties:
                    data:
                      $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchResponseData'
      tags:
      - Search
  /search/services:
    get:
      operationId: Search_getSearchEngines
      summary: List available search services
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Available search services.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ApiResponse'
      tags:
      - Search
components:
  schemas:
    SearchResponseData:
      type: object
      description: Search results payload returned under 'data'.
      properties:
        q:
          type: string
          description: Echo of the submitted query.
        total_count:
          type: integer
          description: Total number of matching results.
        start:
          type: integer
          description: Zero-based offset of the first returned item.
        count_in_response:
          type: integer
          description: Number of items in this page.
        spelling_alternatives:
          type: object
          additionalProperties: true
        items:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchItem'
    ApiResponse:
      type: object
      description: Standard Dataverse JSON response envelope.
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
          enum:
          - OK
          - ERROR
          description: Overall request status.
        data:
          type: object
          description: Payload object (shape depends on the endpoint).
          additionalProperties: true
        message:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable message, present on errors.
      required:
      - status
    SearchItem:
      type: object
      description: A single search result (a dataverse, dataset, or file).
      properties:
        name:
          type: string
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - dataverse
          - dataset
          - file
          description: Kind of object.
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
        identifier:
          type: string
        global_id:
          type: string
          description: Persistent identifier (datasets).
        published_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        publicationStatuses:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
        affiliation:
          type: string
        parentDataverseName:
          type: string
        parentDataverseIdentifier:
          type: string
        datasetCount:
          type: integer
  securitySchemes:
    ApiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-Dataverse-key
      description: Dataverse API token, required for write/admin and private-data operations.