---
title: "Section Search"
method: GET
path: "/api/section/search"
---

# Section Search

`GET /api/section/search`

## Request

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

Search a phrase inside a section kind across documents with full text.

For every candidate doc (source-scoped, full_text != '', ordered most-
recent, capped at max_docs), split sections and keep hits only from the
requested kind. Returns per-doc hits with section attribution, plus a
coverage tally so agents know how many docs actually carry the section.

## Query parameters

- `q` string, required
- `kind` string: Section kind to search within (see /api/section/kinds)
- `source` string, nullable: Restrict to one source (e.g. sec_edgar)
- `max_docs` integer

## Headers

- `authorization` string, nullable
- `x-api-key` string, nullable
- `x-license-key` string, nullable
- `x-principal` string, nullable

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- unknown

## Other responses

- `422`: Validation Error

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