API referenceDiscovery
Search open & archival assets
Entity-grounded asset search across open / archival sources (Wikimedia Commons, NASA, ...).
Resolves the query to a real-world entity, fans out to the sources, filters to commercially-usable licenses, and returns ranked candidates with license + provenance. Read-only; no asset is downloaded or stored by this call.
Authorization
bearerAuth AuthorizationBearer <token>
Typecut API key. Generate one in app.typecut.ai → Settings → API keys. Send as Authorization: Bearer tc_live_….
In: header
Request Body
application/json
TypeScript Definitions
Use the request body type in TypeScript.
Response Body
application/json
application/json
application/json
application/json
curl -X POST "https://example.com/discovery/search" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{ "query": "string" }'{
"data": {
"entity": {
"qid": "string",
"label": "string",
"commonsCategory": "string"
},
"coverage": 0,
"results": [
{
"id": "string",
"source": "string",
"assetId": "string",
"type": "image",
"thumbnailUrl": "string",
"url": "string",
"width": 0,
"height": 0,
"durationSec": 0,
"attribution": "string",
"title": "string",
"author": "string",
"sourceUrl": "string",
"license": {
"tier": "string",
"name": "string",
"url": "string"
}
}
],
"reports": [
{
"source": "string",
"status": "string",
"count": 0,
"ms": 0,
"error": "string"
}
]
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "string",
"code": "string",
"message": "string"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "string",
"code": "string",
"message": "string"
}
}{
"error": {
"type": "string",
"code": "string",
"message": "string"
}
}