Cancer.gov · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0

API Evangelist overlay — Site-Wide Search API

3 actions 3 updates update extends openapi/cancer-gov-sitewide-search-openapi.yml
Derived by API Evangelist Built from the contracts Cancer.gov publishes. Cancer.gov did not publish this file.
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What the actions change

x-apis-io-sourcex-apis-io-harvestedx-apis-io-methodx-apis-io-providerx-apis-io-apix-apis-io-runtime

Targets 2

$.info
$.servers

OpenAPI Overlay

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overlay: 1.0.0
info:
  title: API Evangelist overlay — Site-Wide Search API
  version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/cancer-gov-sitewide-search-openapi.yml
x-generated: '2026-09-05'
x-method: generated
x-source: Captures only API Evangelist's own enhancements over the verbatim first-party document at https://webapis.cancer.gov/sitewidesearch/v1/swagger/v1/swagger.json.
  The original is never mutated.
actions:
- target: $.info
  description: Record where this contract was harvested from and how, so a reader can re-verify it.
  update:
    x-apis-io-source: https://webapis.cancer.gov/sitewidesearch/v1/swagger/v1/swagger.json
    x-apis-io-harvested: '2026-09-05'
    x-apis-io-method: searched
    x-apis-io-provider: Cancer.gov (National Cancer Institute)
    x-apis-io-api: cancer-gov
- target: $.servers
  description: Resolve the server URL. The published document carries '/sitewidesearch/v1', which names
    no reachable host; https://webapis.cancer.gov/sitewidesearch/v1 is the origin this document was actually
    served from and is the production base. The original is preserved untouched in openapi/_original/.
  update:
  - url: https://webapis.cancer.gov/sitewidesearch/v1
    description: Production host (resolved by API Evangelist from the document's own origin)
- target: $.info
  description: 'Record the runtime facts this contract does not state: authentication, rate limiting and
    error shape. Full detail in authentication/, rate-limits/, errors/ and conventions/ in the cancer-gov
    repo.'
  update:
    x-apis-io-runtime:
      authentication: None — answers anonymously
      rate_limit: Not published; no runtime rate-limit headers returned
      idempotency: None — no Idempotency-Key on any mutating operation
      reversibility: None — no reversal operation and no stated recovery window for any delete

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