Vanderbilt University Search API
Keyword and faceted search over broadcast segments.
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Vanderbilt Television News Archive Search 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: Search
description: Keyword and faceted search over broadcast segments.
paths:
/broadcasts/search/keyword:
post:
tags:
- Search
operationId: searchByKeyword
summary: Keyword search across segment titles, descriptions and transcripts
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
required:
- keyword
properties:
keyword:
type: string
page:
type: integer
minimum: 1
default: 1
size:
type: integer
minimum: 1
default: 20
responses:
'200':
description: Paged segment hits.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SegmentSearchResult'
'401':
$ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
/broadcasts/search:
post:
tags:
- Search
operationId: searchBroadcasts
summary: Faceted search over broadcasts and segments
description: Faceted search accepting the filter vocabularies returned by /search/metadata/filters. Observed to exceed the API Gateway 29-second integration timeout on broad queries; see errors/vanderbilt-errors.yml.
requestBody:
required: true
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: object
properties:
query:
type: string
page:
type: integer
minimum: 1
default: 1
size:
type: integer
minimum: 1
default: 20
responses:
'200':
description: Paged results.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SegmentSearchResult'
'504':
$ref: '#/components/responses/GatewayTimeout'
components:
schemas:
SegmentSearchResult:
type: object
properties:
data:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/SegmentSummary'
total:
type: integer
description: Observed as -1 on the keyword endpoint, which does not compute an exact total; treat a negative value as "unknown".
page:
type: integer
size:
type: integer
keyword:
type: string
SegmentSummary:
type: object
properties:
segment_id:
type: string
segment_title:
type: string
network:
type: integer
description: Network id from MetadataFilters.networks.
broadcast_date:
type: string
format: date
broadcast_id:
type: string
segment_duration:
type: integer
description: Seconds.
Error:
type: object
properties:
message:
type: string
responses:
GatewayTimeout:
description: Upstream integration exceeded the gateway timeout.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
example:
message: Endpoint request timed out
Unauthorized:
description: Sign-in required for this operation.
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
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