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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: vLex Iceberg Legal Research Documents API
  description: The vLex Iceberg Legal Research API provides AI-powered access to legal documents, case law, statutes, and regulations from global jurisdictions. Capabilities include semantic document search, AI classification, key phrase extraction, and citation detection (vCite). The corpus spans 100+ million documents from 2,000+ multilingual sources.
  version: 1.0.0
  contact:
    name: vLex Developer Support
    url: https://developer.vlex.com/
  license:
    name: Proprietary
    url: https://vlex.com/
servers:
- url: https://api.vlex.com
  description: vLex Iceberg Legal Research API
tags:
- name: Documents
  description: Retrieve individual legal documents
paths:
  /v1/documents/{document_id}:
    get:
      operationId: getDocument
      summary: Get Legal Document
      description: Retrieve a specific legal document by its vLex ID, including full text, metadata, and citation data.
      tags:
      - Documents
      security:
      - SubscriptionKey: []
      parameters:
      - name: document_id
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: vLex document identifier
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Legal document
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/LegalDocument'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
components:
  schemas:
    Citation:
      type: object
      description: A detected legal citation.
      properties:
        raw_text:
          type: string
          description: Citation text as found in the document.
          example: 347 U.S. 483 (1954)
        document_id:
          type: string
          description: vLex ID of the referenced document, if resolved.
        citation_type:
          type: string
          description: Type of citation (case, statute, regulation, etc.).
        jurisdiction:
          type: string
        year:
          type: integer
        start_offset:
          type: integer
        end_offset:
          type: integer
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
          description: Link to the cited document on vlex.com.
    Error:
      type: object
      properties:
        error:
          type: string
        message:
          type: string
    LegalDocument:
      type: object
      description: A full legal document from the vLex corpus.
      properties:
        id:
          type: string
        title:
          type: string
        document_type:
          type: string
        jurisdiction:
          type: string
        date:
          type: string
          format: date
        language:
          type: string
        full_text:
          type: string
          description: Full text of the legal document.
        metadata:
          type: object
          description: Additional document metadata (court, parties, docket number, etc.).
          additionalProperties: true
        citations:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Citation'
        url:
          type: string
          format: uri
  responses:
    NotFound:
      description: Document not found
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
    Unauthorized:
      description: Invalid or missing subscription key
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error'
  securitySchemes:
    SubscriptionKey:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key
      description: vLex API subscription key from the developer portal.
externalDocs:
  description: vLex Developer Portal
  url: https://developer.vlex.com/apis