---
title: "Archive Search"
method: POST
path: "/archive/search"
---

# Archive Search

`POST /archive/search`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.colourmemory.com` (the document declares no server; this is the origin it was published from)
- URL: `https://api.colourmemory.com/archive/search`
- Auth: none declared

Full-text keyword search across archive colour names and notes.
Find colours by name fragment, material, cultural reference, or pigment type.
Complements conceptual embedding search with exact keyword matching.

## Request body

- ArchiveSearchRequest
  - `query` string, required
  - `archive` string
  - `entity_mode` string
  - `n_results` integer
  - `limit` integer
  - `offset` integer
  - `include_full` boolean
  - `year_from` integer, nullable
  - `year_to` integer, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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