Yale University

LUX Collections Discovery — Configuration API

Advanced-search configuration metadata for LUX, describing searchable terms by scope, search options and stop words. Verified 200 returning 43,502 bytes of JSON on 2026-08-19.

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OpenAPI Specification

# generated: '2026-08-19'
# method: derived
# source: Derived from the open-source LUX backend API usage documentation and Postman collection at github.com/project-lux/lux-marklogic, then split by tag by refine-openapis. Endpoint re-confirmed live against https://lux.collections.yale.edu on 2026-08-19 (200).
# x-operator: institution — lux.collections.yale.edu is under Yale's own registrable
#   domain and the whole LUX stack is published by Yale's project-lux organization.
openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: LUX Yale Collections Discovery Configuration API
  description: Public read API for LUX, Yale's cross-collection discovery platform providing unified access to more than 41 million records across Yale's museums, archives and library collections. Entities are served as Linked Art JSON-LD. This description documents the public middle-tier endpoints exposed under https://lux.collections.yale.edu and was derived from the open-source LUX backend API usage documentation and Postman collection (github.com/project-lux/lux-marklogic) and confirmed against live responses. Only the public read endpoints are described here; write/admin endpoints from the backend custom API are intentionally omitted.
  version: 1.0.0
  license:
    name: Apache 2.0
    url: https://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
  contact:
    name: LUX Yale Collections Discovery
    url: https://lux.collections.yale.edu/content/technology
servers:
- url: https://lux.collections.yale.edu
  description: LUX public production
tags:
- name: Configuration
  description: Search configuration metadata
paths:
  /api/advanced-search-config:
    get:
      tags:
      - Configuration
      operationId: advancedSearchConfig
      summary: Fetch advanced search configuration
      description: Returns the advanced search configuration describing searchable terms by scope, search options and stop words.
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Advanced search configuration.
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/AdvancedSearchConfig'
components:
  schemas:
    AdvancedSearchConfig:
      type: object
      description: Advanced search configuration metadata.
      properties:
        terms:
          type: object
          description: Searchable terms organized by scope.
        options:
          type: object
          description: Allowed and default search options.
        stopWords:
          type: array
          items:
            type: string
      required:
      - terms
      - options