UCL site search (Funnelback tenancy)

aid: ucl:site-search
name: UCL site search (Funnelback tenancy)
description: 'UCL''s website and module-catalogue search runs on Funnelback (Squiz) at search2.ucl.ac.uk,
  on UCL''s own registrable domain. It is the only surface in this profile that returns a machine-readable
  JSON response to an unauthenticated request: /s/search.json?query=&collection= answered HTTP 200 with
  a Funnelback result packet on 2026-08-19. The index and its content are UCL''s; the request and response
  contract is Funnelback''s product API, identical across every Funnelback customer, so it is recorded
  as a tenancy and the contract is not saved under UCL. UCL publishes no documentation presenting this
  as a public API.'
humanURL: https://search2.ucl.ac.uk/
baseURL: https://search2.ucl.ac.uk/s/search.json
tags:
- Search
- Funnelback
- Website
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/module-catalogue/
x-operator: tenant
x-operator-evidence: Host is UCL's (search2.ucl.ac.uk, Cloudflare-proxied) but the /s/search.json request
  and response contract is the Funnelback product API, not UCL-authored. No UCL documentation presents
  it as a public API.
x-vendor: Funnelback (Squiz)
x-probe:
  url: https://search2.ucl.ac.uk/s/search.json?query=api&collection=website-meta
  status: 200
  note: Funnelback result packet returned
  checked: '2026-08-19'