University of Pittsburgh Variables API

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Project Tycho Variables API
  version: '1.0'
  description: Project Tycho is an open-access repository for global health surveillance data, built and operated at the University of Pittsburgh and served from www.tycho.pitt.edu (136.142.8.172, inside Pitt's own 136.142.0.0/16).
  termsOfService: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/dataset/api/
  contact:
    name: Project Tycho — University of Pittsburgh
    email: tycho@phdl.pitt.edu
    url: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/about/
  license:
    name: Open access — see Project Tycho data use terms
    url: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/about/
  x-operator: institution
  x-operator-evidence: servers[] www.tycho.pitt.edu is a host under the University of Pittsburgh's own registrable domain, pitt.edu, and resolves to 136.142.8.172 — inside Pitt's own 136.142.0.0/16 address space, not a vendor's. The site footer reads "© 2026 University of Pittsburgh"; the published contact address is tycho@phdl.pitt.edu (Public Health Dynamics Laboratory, Pitt School of Public Health); and the API reference at https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/dataset/api/ is served from the same host. No vendor host, vendor contact, vendor terms or shared-platform fingerprint appears anywhere on the surface, and no other institution in the university cohort ships this contract. Probed 2026-08-30 — every path under /api/ answers HTTP 200.
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-08-30'
    method: derived
    source: Derived from the published API reference at https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/dataset/api/ (fetched 2026-08-30, HTTP 200, 31,978 bytes), which names every path, its returned variables, its filter parameters and its paging parameters, reconciled against live keyless probes of all fourteen documented paths on 2026-08-30.
    authorship: Written by API Evangelist, not published by the University of Pittsburgh. No machine-readable contract for this API was found — https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/api/openapi.json, /api/openapi.yaml and /api/swagger.json are not published, and the university operates no developer portal (developer.pitt.edu and apis.pitt.edu do not resolve).
    coverage: All fourteen paths named in the published reference are modelled. Response bodies are CSV and could not be captured without a key, so response schemas describe the documented column sets rather than observed payloads, and are marked as such per operation. The full set of filterable variables on /query is the Project Tycho Pre-compiled Data Format v1.0 variable list; the documented subset is enumerated here and the remainder is described but not enumerated rather than guessed.
    limitation: 'Path existence could NOT be confirmed by probe. The API evaluates the key before it routes: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/api/nonsensepath?apikey=INVALIDKEY returns exactly the same HTTP 200 "Invalid API key" body as every documented path. The path list here therefore rests on the published documentation alone.'
servers:
- url: https://www.tycho.pitt.edu/api
  description: Production — Project Tycho API, operated by the University of Pittsburgh
security:
- ProjectTychoApiKey: []
tags:
- name: Variables
  description: Listings of the controlled values available for each variable of the Project Tycho Pre-compiled Data Format version 1.0, except PeriodStartDate and PeriodEndDate.
paths:
  /condition:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listConditions
      summary: List conditions
      description: Returns the full listing of available condition information as CSV with the columns ConditionName and ConditionSNOMED. Both columns are also available as case-sensitive equality filters.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      - name: ConditionName
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Case-sensitive exact match on ConditionName, e.g. `Measles`.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: ConditionSNOMED
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Case-sensitive exact match on the SNOMED CT concept id for the condition.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/ConditionCsv'
  /country:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listCountries
      summary: List countries
      description: Returns CountryISO and CountryName for every country present in the repository.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      - name: CountryISO
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Case-sensitive exact match on the ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, e.g. `US`.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: CountryName
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Case-sensitive exact match on the country name, e.g. `UNITED STATES OF AMERICA`.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/CountryCsv'
  /admin1:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listAdmin1
      summary: List first-level administrative divisions
      description: Returns CountryISO, CountryName, Admin1ISO and Admin1Name. Any of the four returned variables may be used as a case-sensitive equality filter.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CountryISO'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CountryName'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Admin1ISO'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Admin1Name'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Admin1Csv'
  /admin2:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listAdmin2
      summary: List second-level administrative divisions
      description: Returns CountryISO, CountryName, Admin1ISO, Admin1Name and Admin2Name. Any of the five returned variables may be used as a case-sensitive equality filter.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CountryISO'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CountryName'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Admin1ISO'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Admin1Name'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Admin2Name'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Admin2Csv'
  /city:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listCities
      summary: List cities
      description: Returns CountryISO, CountryName, Admin1ISO, Admin1Name, Admin2Name and CityName. Any of the six returned variables may be used as a case-sensitive equality filter.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CountryISO'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CountryName'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Admin1ISO'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Admin1Name'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/Admin2Name'
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/CityName'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/CityCsv'
  /pathogen:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listPathogens
      summary: List pathogens
      description: Returns PathogenName and PathogenTaxonID (NCBI Taxonomy identifier). Both may be used as case-sensitive equality filters.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      - name: PathogenName
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Case-sensitive exact match on the pathogen's scientific name.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: PathogenTaxonID
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Case-sensitive exact match on the NCBI Taxonomy identifier.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/PathogenCsv'
  /agerange:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listAgeRanges
      summary: List age ranges
      description: Returns the AgeRange column. The published reference states that no filters are available.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/SingleColumnCsv'
  /subpopulation:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listSubpopulations
      summary: List subpopulations
      description: Returns the Subpopulation column. The published reference states that no filters are available.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/SingleColumnCsv'
  /fatalities:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listFatalities
      summary: List fatality flag values
      description: Returns the Fatalities column. The published reference states that no filters are available.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/SingleColumnCsv'
  /cumulative:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listCumulative
      summary: List cumulative-series flag values
      description: Returns the PartOfCumulativeCountSeries column. The published reference states that no filters are available.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/SingleColumnCsv'
  /diagnosiscertainty:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listDiagnosisCertainty
      summary: List diagnosis-certainty values
      description: Returns the DiagnosisCertainty column. The published reference states that no filters are available.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/SingleColumnCsv'
  /placeofacquisition:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listPlaceOfAcquisition
      summary: List place-of-acquisition values
      description: Returns the PlaceOfAcqusition column. The column name is misspelled in Project Tycho's own published reference and in the data format; it is reproduced here verbatim rather than corrected, because a client must send and read what the API actually uses.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/SingleColumnCsv'
  /sourcename:
    get:
      tags:
      - Variables
      operationId: listSourceNames
      summary: List source names
      description: Returns the SourceName column. The published reference states that no filters are available.
      parameters:
      - $ref: '#/components/parameters/ApiKey'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/SingleColumnCsv'
components:
  schemas:
    Admin2Row:
      type: object
      description: One row of the /admin2 listing.
      properties:
        CountryISO:
          type: string
        CountryName:
          type: string
        Admin1ISO:
          type: string
        Admin1Name:
          type: string
        Admin2Name:
          type: string
          description: Second-level division
          US county or equivalent.: null
    PathogenRow:
      type: object
      description: One row of the /pathogen listing.
      properties:
        PathogenName:
          type: string
          description: Scientific name of the pathogen.
        PathogenTaxonID:
          type: string
          description: NCBI Taxonomy identifier.
    Admin1Row:
      type: object
      description: One row of the /admin1 listing.
      properties:
        CountryISO:
          type: string
        CountryName:
          type: string
        Admin1ISO:
          type: string
          description: ISO 3166-2 subdivision code
          e.g. US-PA.: null
        Admin1Name:
          type: string
    CityRow:
      type: object
      description: One row of the /city listing.
      properties:
        CountryISO:
          type: string
        CountryName:
          type: string
        Admin1ISO:
          type: string
        Admin1Name:
          type: string
        Admin2Name:
          type: string
        CityName:
          type: string
    CountryRow:
      type: object
      description: One row of the /country listing.
      properties:
        CountryISO:
          type: string
          description: ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code.
        CountryName:
          type: string
          description: Country name as used by Project Tycho.
    ConditionRow:
      type: object
      description: One row of the /condition listing.
      properties:
        ConditionName:
          type: string
          description: Human-readable condition name
          e.g. Measles.: null
        ConditionSNOMED:
          type: string
          description: SNOMED CT concept id for the condition.
  parameters:
    ApiKey:
      name: apikey
      in: query
      required: true
      description: Project Tycho API key. Required on every request; evaluated before routing.
      schema:
        type: string
    Admin1ISO:
      name: Admin1ISO
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Case-sensitive exact match on ISO 3166-2 subdivision code, e.g. `US-PA`.
      schema:
        type: string
    CountryISO:
      name: CountryISO
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Case-sensitive exact match on ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code, e.g. `US`.
      schema:
        type: string
    CountryName:
      name: CountryName
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Case-sensitive exact match on country name, e.g. `UNITED STATES OF AMERICA`.
      schema:
        type: string
    CityName:
      name: CityName
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Case-sensitive exact match on city name.
      schema:
        type: string
    Admin2Name:
      name: Admin2Name
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Case-sensitive exact match on second-level division name (US county or equivalent).
      schema:
        type: string
    Admin1Name:
      name: Admin1Name
      in: query
      required: false
      description: Case-sensitive exact match on first-level division name, e.g. `Pennsylvania`.
      schema:
        type: string
  responses:
    CityCsv:
      description: CSV with a header row and the columns CountryISO, CountryName, Admin1ISO, Admin1Name, Admin2Name, CityName.
      content:
        text/csv:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/CityRow'
    PathogenCsv:
      description: CSV with a header row and the columns PathogenName, PathogenTaxonID.
      content:
        text/csv:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PathogenRow'
    Admin2Csv:
      description: CSV with a header row and the columns CountryISO, CountryName, Admin1ISO, Admin1Name, Admin2Name.
      content:
        text/csv:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Admin2Row'
    CountryCsv:
      description: CSV with a header row and the columns CountryISO, CountryName.
      content:
        text/csv:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/CountryRow'
    ConditionCsv:
      description: CSV with a header row and the columns ConditionName, ConditionSNOMED.
      content:
        text/csv:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ConditionRow'
    SingleColumnCsv:
      description: CSV with a header row naming the single variable and one row per available value. The column name matches the variable named in the operation description.
      content:
        text/csv:
          schema:
            type: object
            description: One CSV row carrying the single named variable.
            additionalProperties:
              type: string
    Admin1Csv:
      description: CSV with a header row and the columns CountryISO, CountryName, Admin1ISO, Admin1Name.
      content:
        text/csv:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Admin1Row'
  securitySchemes:
    ProjectTychoApiKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: apikey
      description: A free API key, obtained from the Profile page after registering an account at https://www.tycho.pitt.edu. The key travels in the query string on every request, which means it is written into server access logs, browser history, referrer headers and any intermediary cache. Project Tycho offers no header-based alternative.