University of Vienna

PHAIDRA search API (University of Vienna)

The search API from University of Vienna — 1 operation(s) for search.

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Operations 1

POST /search/select Search query

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: PHAIDRA datastream Search API
  version: '3.0'
  description: Documentation of the PHAIDRA API.
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0.html
  x-provenance:
    generated: '2026-08-30'
    method: searched
    source: >-
      PHAIDRA API v3.0, published Apache 2.0 by the PHAIDRA project (github.com/phaidra/phaidra-api, public/docs/openapi.json), the platform the University of Vienna authors and hosts. Pristine copy at
      openapi/_original/university-of-vienna-phaidra-api.yaml.
    x-operator: institution
    note: >-
      Split from the source contract by refine-openapis; servers[] re-based to the live production host on 2026-08-30 (see servers[].description).
servers:
- url: https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/
  description: University of Vienna PHAIDRA (current production base, re3data r3d100010472, verified 2026-08-30)
- description: RETIRED — returns HTTP 200 with a zero-length body on every path (soft-200), verified 2026-08-30
  url: https://services.phaidra.univie.ac.at/api/
- description: PHAIDRA Sandbox — connection timed out on probe 2026-08-30
  url: https://sandbox.phaidra.org/api/
tags:
- name: search
  description: ''
paths:
  /search/select:
    post:
      summary: Search query
      description: Solr query, for the query parameters see [Solr common query parameters](https://solr.apache.org/guide/solr/latest/query-guide/common-query-parameters.html)
      tags:
      - search
      parameters:
      - in: query
        name: q
        schema:
          type: string
          required: true
        description: query string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: search response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  responseHeader:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        status:
                          type: number
                        QTime:
                          type: number
                        params:
                          type: object
                  response:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      numFound:
                        type: number
                      start:
                        type: number
                      numFoundExact:
                        type: boolean
                      docs:
                        type: array
                  facet_counts:
                    type: object
                    properties:
                      facet_querie:
                        type: object
                      facet_fields:
                        type: object
                      facet_ranges:
                        type: object
                      facet_intervals:
                        type: object
                      facet_heatmaps:
                        type: object
        '404':
          description: object has not been found
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
components:
  securitySchemes:
    tokenAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: X-XSRF-TOKEN
    basicAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: basic

PHAIDRA search API (University of Vienna)

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