Profound · OpenAPI Overlay 1.0.0
API Evangelist enhancements for the Profound External API
9 actions
9 updates
documentation
extends
openapi/profound-external-api-openapi.json
Derived by API Evangelist
Built from the contracts Profound publishes. Profound did not publish this file.
What the actions change
descriptioncontactx-apievangelist-base-urlx-apievangelist-docsx-apievangelist-accessx-apievangelist-version-notex-apievangelist-rate-limitsx-apievangelist-conventions
Targets 4
$.info
$.components.securitySchemes.APIKeyHeader
$.components.securitySchemes.BearerAuth
$.servers
OpenAPI Overlay
overlay: 1.0.0
info:
title: API Evangelist enhancements for the Profound External API
version: 1.0.0
extends: openapi/profound-external-api-openapi.json
x-generated: '2026-08-13'
x-method: generated
x-source: >-
Derived from the artifacts in this repo — conventions/, errors/,
rate-limits/, lifecycle/, authentication/ — against the spec harvested
verbatim from https://api.tryprofound.com/openapi.json. The original is never
mutated; these are our additions.
actions:
- target: $.info
update:
description: >-
The Profound External API exposes Answer Engine Optimization analytics
programmatically: brand visibility, citations, sentiment, query fan-outs,
FactCheck accuracy, shopping visibility, AI crawler and referral traffic,
plus knowledge bases, documents, projects and runnable Profound Agents.
Access is Enterprise-plan only and must be requested from support.
contact:
name: Profound Support
email: support@tryprofound.com
url: https://docs.tryprofound.com
x-apievangelist-base-url: https://api.tryprofound.com
x-apievangelist-docs: https://docs.tryprofound.com/rest-api/introduction
x-apievangelist-access: enterprise-only-on-request
x-apievangelist-version-note: >-
info.version is a git commit SHA rather than a semantic version, so the
contract carries no human-readable release identifier.
- target: $.info
update:
x-apievangelist-rate-limits:
limit: 600
window: 1h
scope: per-api-key
headers: [X-RateLimit-Limit, X-RateLimit-Remaining, X-RateLimit-Reset]
exhausted_status: 429
retry_after: true
source: rate-limits/profound-rate-limits.yml
- target: $.info
update:
x-apievangelist-conventions:
pagination:
style: offset
envelope: pagination
default_limit: 100
max_limit: 50000
total_field: info.total_rows
response_envelope: >-
Report rows pack metrics and dimensions as POSITIONAL ARRAYS; column
order comes from info.query.metrics and info.query.dimensions in the
response, not from the request order.
end_date_exclusive: true
timezone: >-
Dates without a Z suffix are interpreted in Eastern Time; end_date is
parsed at the start of that day and is therefore excluded.
idempotency: not-supported
source: conventions/profound-conventions.yml
- target: $.info
update:
x-apievangelist-undeclared-errors:
note: >-
The spec declares only 422 on every operation. These statuses are real
documented runtime behaviour but are absent from the contract, so a
generated client will not handle them.
statuses:
- status: 401
title: Unauthorized — invalid or missing API key
- status: 403
title: Forbidden — insufficient permissions or entitlement
- status: 429
title: Too Many Requests — rate limit exceeded
source: errors/profound-problem-types.yml
- target: $.info
update:
x-apievangelist-deprecations:
note: >-
Five v1 report operations are announced as deprecated in the changelog
but none carries deprecated: true in the spec, so the deprecation is
invisible to tooling.
operations:
- query_visibility_v1_reports_visibility_post
- query_citations_v1_reports_citations_post
- query_sentiment_v1_reports_sentiment_post
- query_sentiment_v2_v1_reports_sentiment_v2_post
- query_fanouts_v1_reports_query_fanouts_post
source: lifecycle/profound-lifecycle.yml
- target: $.info
update:
x-apievangelist-agent-surface:
mcp:
url: https://mcp.tryprofound.com/mcp
mode: remote
auth: oauth2.1
tools: 30
source: mcp/profound-mcp.yml
agent_card:
url: https://docs.tryprofound.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
grade: conformant
source: a2a/profound-a2a.yml
agent_skill:
url: https://docs.tryprofound.com/.well-known/agent-skills/profound/skill.md
source: skills/_index.yml
crosswalk: mcp/profound-tool-crosswalk.yml
- target: $.components.securitySchemes.APIKeyHeader
update:
description: >-
Enterprise API key sent in the X-API-Key header. Created in
Settings → API Keys with a mandatory expiration date and shown once only.
Scoped to a single organization; grants access to all of that
organization's analytics data. Also readable from the PROFOUND_API_KEY
environment variable by both official SDKs.
- target: $.components.securitySchemes.BearerAuth
update:
description: >-
The same Enterprise API key presented as an Authorization Bearer token.
This is also the fallback authentication method for the hosted MCP server
when a per-user OAuth 2.1 flow is not possible.
- target: $.servers
update:
description: Production Server — the only published server for this API.
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