EPFL · Schema

EPFL Actu News

A single news item returned by the EPFL Actu News API (/api/v1/news/).

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Properties

Name	Type	Description
id	integer
lang	string
title	string
subtitle	string
text	string
order	integer
publish_date	string
visual_url	stringnull
thumbnail_url	stringnull
visual_description	string
short_vimeo_video_id	string
short_vimeo_video_credits	string
carousel_images	array
video	string
channel	object
category	object
news_url	string
themes	array
publics	array
faculties	array
projects	array
authors	array
links	array
funding	string
references	string
is_under_cc_license	boolean

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JSON Schema

{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/epfl/main/json-schema/epfl-news-schema.json",
  "title": "EPFL Actu News",
  "description": "A single news item returned by the EPFL Actu News API (/api/v1/news/).",
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "id": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "lang": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "title": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "subtitle": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "text": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "order": {
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "publish_date": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date-time"
    },
    "visual_url": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "format": "uri"
    },
    "thumbnail_url": {
      "type": [
        "string",
        "null"
      ],
      "format": "uri"
    },
    "visual_description": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "short_vimeo_video_id": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "short_vimeo_video_credits": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "carousel_images": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "video": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "channel": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "name": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "fr_description": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "en_description": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "de_description": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "is_active": {
          "type": "boolean"
        }
      }
    },
    "category": {
      "type": "object",
      "properties": {
        "id": {
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "fr_label": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "en_label": {
          "type": "string"
        },
        "de_label": {
          "type": "string"
        }
      }
    },
    "news_url": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "uri"
    },
    "themes": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "publics": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "faculties": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "projects": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "authors": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "links": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object"
      }
    },
    "funding": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "references": {
      "type": "string"
    },
    "is_under_cc_license": {
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "id",
    "title",
    "publish_date",
    "news_url"
  ],
  "x-provenance": {
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "method": "derived",
    "source": "openapi/_original/epfl-actu.yaml plus a live GET of https://actu.epfl.ch/api/v1/news/?limit=1",
    "operator": "institution",
    "operator_basis": "describes payloads served from EPFL's own registrable domain epfl.ch"
  }
}