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.
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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

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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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