# Karp Search API v1 — Karps sökgränssnitt

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/karp-search-api/  
**Provider:** University of Gothenburg — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-gothenburg/  
**Base URL:** https://spraakbanken4.it.gu.se/karps/v1  
**Documentation:** https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/docs/karp-s

Karp Search API v1 — Karps sökgränssnitt is one of 14 APIs that [University of Gothenburg](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-gothenburg/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Lexicography, Search, Language Technology, Swedish, and Dictionary. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

The read-only search surface over the same lexical resources — three operations: config, search and count, across 31 lexical resources. Institution-operated, served from spraakbanken4.it.gu.se. Verified live 2026-09-01: anonymous GET /config returned HTTP 200 with 47,203 bytes. HOSTLESS AS PUBLISHED, same as Karp v7: relative servers[] `/karps/v1`, no info.contact; re-based in openapi/ onto the host it is served from.

## Operations (3)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/config` | Get config |
| GET | `/search` | Search |
| GET | `/count` | Count |

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-gothenburg/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-gothenburg-karp-search-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/docs/karp-s
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-gothenburg/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-gothenburg-karp-search-config-example.json

## Other University of Gothenburg APIs (12)

- [Korp API v8 — Corpus Concordance Search](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/korp-api/)
- [Språkbanken Text Metadata API v3](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/sbx-metadata-api/)
- [Mink API v3 — Bring Your Own Corpus](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/mink-api/)
- [Sparv API v3 — Text Annotation Pipeline](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/sparv-api/)
- [Karp API v7 — Lexical Resource Editing](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/karp-api/)
- [GUPEA Repository OAI-PMH 2.0 Interface](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/gupea-oai-pmh/)
- [GUPEA DSpace 8 REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/gupea-dspace-rest/)
- [Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/shibboleth-idp/)
- [Microsoft AD FS Identity Provider (SWAMID entity)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/adfs-idp/)
- [DataCite DOI Registration (client SND.SPRKB, via the Swedish National Data Service)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/datacite-registration/)
- [Crossref Membership (members 36737 and 51378)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/crossref-membership/)
- [Quality of Government (QoG) Open Data](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/qog-data/)

## Tags

Lexicography, Search, Language Technology, Swedish, Dictionary

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