Vanderbilt University Metadata API
Controlled vocabularies used to filter the archive.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Vanderbilt Television News Archive Metadata API
version: 1.0.0
description: Read API for the Vanderbilt Television News Archive, the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries' collection of United States network television news broadcasts recorded continuously since August 5, 1968.
contact:
name: Vanderbilt Television News Archive, Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries
url: https://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/
license:
name: Terms of use published by the Vanderbilt Television News Archive
url: https://blog.tvnews.vanderbilt.edu/welcome/access-information/
servers:
- url: https://7itm2l2dz8.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod
description: Production stage. AWS API Gateway is Vanderbilt's own deployment infrastructure here, not a third-party SaaS product; the endpoint is referenced directly by the tvnews.vanderbilt.edu application bundle.
tags:
- name: Metadata
description: Controlled vocabularies used to filter the archive.
paths:
/search/metadata/filters:
get:
tags:
- Metadata
operationId: getMetadataFilters
summary: Controlled vocabularies available as search facets
parameters:
- name: startDate
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
format: date
- name: endDate
in: query
required: false
schema:
type: string
format: date
responses:
'200':
description: Broadcast types, segment types and networks.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/MetadataFilters'
components:
schemas:
MetadataFilters:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: object
properties:
broadcast_types:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NamedTerm'
segment_types:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NamedTerm'
networks:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/NamedTerm'
NamedTerm:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
name:
type: string
x-provenance:
generated: '2026-09-01'
method: derived
source: Derived from live unauthenticated probes of https://7itm2l2dz8.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod on 2026-09-01, plus the endpoint inventory read out of the tvnews.vanderbilt.edu application bundle /assets/index-PmeD9ur1.js. Vanderbilt publishes no OpenAPI for this API.
x-operator: institution