The Holistic Care — THC Open Mindfulness API Search API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: THC Open Mindfulness Resources Search 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, 16 free mindfulness games, 111 free guided-audio practices, blog post excerpts, and the public PanchaVikas early-years framework — as structured JSON.
  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: Search
paths:
  /v1/search:
    get:
      summary: Free-text search across every public resource family
      description: Case-insensitive substring match over the same public metadata /v1/resources exposes (title, summary, category, tags) — never article bodies or private/premium content. Not built on Elasticsearch, Algolia, or embeddings; a simple in-memory match, documented as correct at current content volumes rather than overengineered for V1.
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: true
        description: Search text. Required; a missing or empty (or whitespace-only) value returns 400.
        schema:
          type: string
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/limit'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/offset'
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A paginated list of matching normalized public resources.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ResourceListResponse'
        '400':
          description: 'Missing or empty `q` parameter (`missing_query`), or a malformed `limit`/`offset` value (`invalid_parameter`) — see /docs#pagination.

            '
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
        '429':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited'
      tags:
      - Search
      operationId: getV1Search
      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:
    Resource:
      type: object
      description: 'The common normalized shape used by /v1/resources and /v1/search across all 6 families. Fields not applicable to a given resource''s type are null rather than fabricated. `id` is populated for every resource, using each family''s existing stable public identifier where one already exists (mindfulness_game uses its `MG-*` api_id, guided_practice uses its `SL-*` track_id, panchavikas_* uses its `PV-*` id), or a deterministic `type:slug` pair otherwise (e.g. `blog:<slug>`, `research:<slug>`, `glossary:<slug>`) — never a raw Sanity `_id`. `slug` is populated for every type except panchavikas_pathway/panchavikas_download, which have no real slug field and are always null there. A blog-type resource still always has `category` set to null (unlike id/slug, which changed 2026-09-25 — see HANDOFF.md), matching the fact that blog posts have no equivalent taxonomy field exposed elsewhere in this API. Note this Resource shape (used only by /v1/resources and /v1/search) is intentionally richer than the dedicated /v1/blog endpoint''s own response, which still omits id/slug/type/updated_at entirely per Mohan''s original instruction for that endpoint specifically.

        '
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        title:
          type: string
        slug:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        type:
          type: string
          enum:
          - blog
          - mindfulness_game
          - guided_practice
          - research
          - glossary
          - panchavikas_pathway
          - panchavikas_download
        summary:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        category:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
        tags:
          type:
          - array
          - 'null'
          items:
            type: string
        audiences:
          type:
          - array
          - 'null'
          items:
            type: string
        age_min:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
        age_max:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
        duration_minutes:
          type:
          - integer
          - 'null'
        skills:
          type:
          - array
          - 'null'
          items:
            type: string
        access:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          description: e.g. "free". Never "paid" — no paid content is ever exposed by this API.
        source_url:
          type: string
        updated_at:
          type:
          - string
          - 'null'
          format: date-time
      example:
        id: MG-001
        title: Breathing Buddy
        slug: breathing-buddy
        type: mindfulness_game
        summary: A gentle breathing pacer for young children.
        category: Breathing
        tags:
        - breathing
        - calm
        - kids
        audiences:
        - children
        age_min: 5
        age_max: 12
        duration_minutes: 5
        skills:
        - breathwork
        access: free
        source_url: https://www.theholisticcare.com/games/breathing-buddy.html
        updated_at: '2026-09-24T00:00:00.000Z'
    Pagination:
      type: object
      properties:
        limit:
          type: integer
        offset:
          type: integer
        total:
          type: integer
    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
    ResourceListResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        data:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Resource'
        pagination:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Pagination'
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
    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".
  responses:
    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'
x-provenance:
  method: harvested
  publisher: The Holistic Care — THC Open Mindfulness API
  source: https://api.theholisticcare.com/openapi/openapi.yaml
  note: split by refine-openapis from the provider's own published document, verified by fetch (openapi/_original/*.fetch.json);
    stamped by stamp-openapi-provenance.py (roadmap#793)