Princeton University Search API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Princeton University Art Museum Search API
  version: '1.0'
  summary: Open, no-authentication REST access to the Princeton University Art Museum collections.
  description: 'REST-style service providing developer access to data about the Princeton University Art Museum and its collections. Four resource surfaces are documented: objects (art objects and their tombstone records), makers (artists, cultural groups and other makers), packages (curated groupings) and a full-text search endpoint backed by Elasticsearch. All responses are JSON. No authentication is currently required, though the Museum notes this may change.

    PROVENANCE: the Museum publishes prose documentation in a GitHub repository, not a machine readable contract. This OpenAPI was DERIVED by API Evangelist from that documentation and verified against live responses on 2026-08-19; it was not published by Princeton. Paths, parameters and status codes below were each exercised against the production host.'
  contact:
    name: Princeton University Art Museum API
    url: https://github.com/Princeton-University-Art-Museum/puam-api-docs
  x-operator: institution
  x-provenance:
    method: derived
    source: https://github.com/Princeton-University-Art-Museum/puam-api-docs
    derived_by: API Evangelist university pipeline
    verified_against: https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu
    verified: '2026-08-19'
servers:
- url: https://data.artmuseum.princeton.edu
  description: Production collections data host (verified 200, 2026-08-19)
tags:
- name: Search
  description: Full-text search across all collection data types.
paths:
  /search:
    get:
      tags:
      - Search
      operationId: searchCollections
      summary: Full-text search across collection data
      description: Full-text search over the Museum's data. The response is the raw Elasticsearch result envelope — took, timed_out, _shards and hits — rather than a Museum-specific shape.
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Search term(s).
        schema:
          type: string
        example: monet
      - name: type
        in: query
        description: Data type to search. Use `all` to search every type.
        schema:
          type: string
        example: all
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Elasticsearch search envelope.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/SearchResponse'
components:
  schemas:
    SearchResponse:
      type: object
      description: Raw Elasticsearch response envelope.
      properties:
        took:
          type: integer
        timed_out:
          type: boolean
        _shards:
          type: object
          properties:
            total:
              type: integer
            successful:
              type: integer
            failed:
              type: integer
        hits:
          type: object
          properties:
            total:
              type: integer
            max_score:
              type:
              - number
              - 'null'
            hits:
              type: array
              items:
                type: object
                properties:
                  _index:
                    type: string
                  _type:
                    type: string
                  _id:
                    type: string
                  _score:
                    type: number
                  _source:
                    type: object