The Holistic Care — THC Open Mindfulness API Podcast API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: THC Open Mindfulness Resources Podcast API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: 'A free, public, read-only REST API exposing The Holistic Care''s open mindfulness resources — research citations (whitepapers), a plain-language glossary, free mindfulness games, free guided-audio practices, blog post excerpts, The Holistic Care Podcast episodes (English and Hindi), and the public PanchaVikas early-years framework — as structured JSON. No authentication required. A unified `/v1/resources` browse endpoint and a `/v1/search` endpoint aggregate across every family at once. Blog endpoints expose metadata/excerpts only — full article content remains on the canonical The Holistic Care website. See `/docs` for a fair-use/attribution note and a versioning policy alongside this reference.


    Licensing note: this OpenAPI spec and the repository''s code are MIT licensed (see the `license` field below and `LICENSE` in the repo). The *content* this API returns (research summaries, glossary entries, game descriptions, guided-practice metadata, blog excerpts, podcast episode summaries, PanchaVikas materials) is NOT covered by that MIT license — it remains Copyright © The Holistic Care, all rights reserved, unless a specific resource states otherwise. See `LICENSING.md` in the repository for the full breakdown of software license vs. API access terms vs. content rights vs. attribution.'
  contact:
    name: The Holistic Care
    url: https://www.theholisticcare.com
    email: info@theholisticcare.com
  license:
    name: MIT (code only — see LICENSING.md for content rights)
    url: https://github.com/mohanagc/thc-open-mindfulness-api/blob/main/LICENSE
servers:
- url: https://api.theholisticcare.com
  description: Production (only environment currently deployed)
tags:
- name: Podcast
paths:
  /v1/podcast/episodes:
    get:
      summary: List released podcast episodes (English and Hindi)
      description: Released episodes of The Holistic Care Podcast. Discovery metadata and links only (title, short summary, duration, release date, website and YouTube URLs); transcripts and companion guides are never returned. Episodes appear on their release day.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      - name: lang
        in: query
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - en
          - hi
      - name: season
        in: query
        schema:
          type: integer
          minimum: 1
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A paginated list of podcast episodes, ordered by season, episode, language.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PodcastEpisodeListResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InvalidParameter'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
      tags:
      - Podcast
      operationId: getV1PodcastEpisodes
      x-operation-id-source: derived
  /v1/podcast/episodes/{id}:
    get:
      summary: Get a single podcast episode by id
      parameters:
      - name: id
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Stable episode id, e.g. PC-S02E03-EN (case-insensitive).
        schema:
          type: string
          pattern: ^PC-S[0-9]{1,3}E[0-9]{1,3}-(EN|HI)$
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A single podcast episode.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/PodcastEpisodeDetailResponse'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InvalidParameter'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
      tags:
      - Podcast
      operationId: getV1PodcastEpisodesById
      x-operation-id-source: derived
components:
  parameters:
    limit:
      name: limit
      in: query
      description: 'Max records to return (default 20). A non-numeric, non-integer, or non-positive value (e.g. `abc`, `1.5`, `0`, `-1`) returns a 400 `invalid_parameter` error rather than silently falling back to the default. A value above the documented maximum (100) is the one exception: it is NOT an error, it is silently clamped to 100 — see /docs#pagination for the full rationale for that one intentional exception.

        '
      schema:
        type: integer
        default: 20
        maximum: 100
    offset:
      name: offset
      in: query
      description: 'Records to skip (default 0). A non-numeric, non-integer, or negative value (e.g. `abc`, `1.5`, `-1`) returns a 400 `invalid_parameter` error rather than silently falling back to 0 — see /docs#pagination.

        '
      schema:
        type: integer
        default: 0
  schemas:
    PodcastEpisodeListResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PodcastEpisode'
        pagination:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pagination'
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
    Meta:
      type: object
      description: Present on every successful response.
      properties:
        generated_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
        provider:
          type: string
          example: The Holistic Care
        source:
          type: string
          example: https://www.theholisticcare.com
    PodcastEpisodeDetailResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        data:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/PodcastEpisode'
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
    PodcastEpisode:
      type: object
      description: 'A released episode of The Holistic Care Podcast. `id` is deterministic (PC-S<season>E<episode>-<EN|HI>) and never changes. English and Hindi versions share `slug`, so use `id` to identify an episode.

        '
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
          example: PC-S02E03-EN
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - podcast_episode
        slug:
          type: string
        title:
          type: string
        short_title:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        language:
          type: string
          enum:
          - en
          - hi
        season_number:
          type: integer
        season_title:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        episode_number:
          type: integer
        summary:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: The episode's short quick-answer summary.
        key_question:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        audience:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        duration_iso:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          example: PT1M42S
        duration_seconds:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
        release_date:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: date
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: The episode page on theholisticcare.com.
        youtube_url:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: uri
        alternate_language_id:
          type: string
          description: The same episode in the other language.
        updated_at:
          type: string
          format: date-time
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: object
          properties:
            code:
              type: string
              description: Short, machine-readable identifier. See /docs#errors for the full list.
              example: not_found
            message:
              type: string
              description: Human-readable, safe to show a developer. Never a stack trace or internal detail.
      example:
        error:
          code: not_found
          message: No public blog post found for slug "example-slug".
    Pagination:
      type: object
      properties:
        limit:
          type: integer
        offset:
          type: integer
        total:
          type: integer
  responses:
    InvalidParameter:
      description: 'A malformed `limit` or `offset` value (non-numeric, non-integer, a non-positive `limit`, or a negative `offset`) — see /docs#pagination. Every endpoint below that accepts `limit`/`offset` can return this.

        '
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    NotFound:
      description: 'No public record exists at that slug. A record that exists but is a draft, unpublished, or not opted into the API returns this exact same response as a slug that doesn''t exist at all — never a different error that would reveal a private record''s existence.

        '
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    RateLimited:
      description: 'Too many requests from this IP recently (best-effort ~60 req/min; see /docs#rate-limiting for the honest limitations of this enforcement on serverless infrastructure).

        '
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'