# LUX Collections Discovery — Search API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-search-api/  
**Provider:** Yale University — https://apis.io/providers/yale/  
**Base URL:** https://lux.collections.yale.edu  
**Documentation:** https://lux.collections.yale.edu/

LUX Collections Discovery — Search API is one of 13 APIs that [Yale University](https://apis.io/providers/yale/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Search, Linked Art, and Cultural Heritage. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

Search and discovery across LUX scopes, returning Linked Art OrderedCollectionPage documents in JSON-LD. LUX is Yale's own platform: the frontend, middle tier, Varnish cache, MarkLogic backend and data pipeline are all published by the project-lux GitHub organization, and the host is under Yale's registrable domain. Verified 200 on 2026-08-19 with q={"text":"gold"} returning 53,387 matching objects.

## Machine-readable artifacts (11)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/openapi/yale-search-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://github.com/project-lux/lux-marklogic/blob/main/docs/lux-backend-api-usage.md
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/project-lux
- **SourceCode** — https://github.com/project-lux/lux-middletier
- **x-json-schema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yale-orderedcollectionpage-schema.json
- **x-json-schema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/json-schema/yale-linkedartentity-schema.json
- **x-vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/yale-vocabulary.yml
- **x-json-ld** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/json-ld/yale-context.jsonld
- **x-rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/rules/yale-rules.yml
- **x-examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/examples/yale-search-example.json
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/yale/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Yale University APIs (12)

- [LUX Collections Discovery — Documents API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-documents-api/)
- [LUX Collections Discovery — Facets API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-facets-api/)
- [LUX Collections Discovery — Related API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-related-api/)
- [LUX Collections Discovery — Configuration API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-configuration-api/)
- [Yale Dataverse Repository API](https://apis.io/apis/yale/dataverse/)
- [Yale University Library Digital Collections IIIF](https://apis.io/apis/yale/iiif/)
- [Yale University Identity Federation Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/yale/identity-federation/)
- [Yale API Portal — Portal APIs](https://apis.io/apis/yale/portal/)
- [Yale Courses Web Service v3](https://apis.io/apis/yale/courses/)
- [Yale Enterprise (SOA) Services](https://apis.io/apis/yale/enterprise-soa/)
- [EliScholar OAI-PMH (bepress Digital Commons tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/yale/elischolar/)
- [Yale Course Search and University Publications (CourseLeaf tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/yale/course-catalog/)

## Tags

Search, Linked Art, Cultural Heritage

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/yale/yale-search-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/yale/.