CMS Open Payments

CMS Open Payments Search API

Full-text and faceted dataset discovery.

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GET /search Search datasets #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: CMS Open Payments Datastore Query Search API
  description: 'The CMS Open Payments public data API serves the federal transparency program that publishes payments and transfers of value from drug and medical device manufacturers and group purchasing organizations (GPOs) to physicians, non-physician practitioners, and teaching hospitals.


    The site at openpaymentsdata.cms.gov is a DKAN open data catalog. All read access is free and requires no authentication or API key. Data is organized as datasets (one per program year and payment category: General, Research, and Ownership and Investment), each backed by a datastore that can be queried with a structured query object, with SQL, or downloaded as CSV or JSON.


    This document models the public read surface only: the metastore catalog and search, the datastore structured query endpoints, the SQL query endpoint, and downloads. The DKAN write and moderation endpoints require Basic Authentication and are for CMS data publishers, not public consumers; they are out of scope here.'
  version: '1.0'
  contact:
    name: CMS Open Payments
    url: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/about/api
  license:
    name: U.S. Government Work / Public Domain
    url: https://www.usa.gov/government-works
servers:
- url: https://openpaymentsdata.cms.gov/api/1
  description: CMS Open Payments public data API (DKAN)
tags:
- name: Search
  description: Full-text and faceted dataset discovery.
paths:
  /search:
    get:
      operationId: searchDatasets
      tags:
      - Search
      summary: Search datasets
      description: Full-text and faceted search across all Open Payments datasets. Filter by keyword (for example a program year like 2021), theme, or free text.
      parameters:
      - name: fulltext
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Free-text search string.
      - name: keyword
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Keyword facet, such as a program year.
      - name: theme
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Theme / category facet.
      - name: page-size
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
          maximum: 100
          default: 10
        description: Results per page (max 100).
      - name: page
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: integer
        description: Page number.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Search results with a total count and matching datasets.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  total:
                    type: string
                  results:
                    type: object