---
title: "Search headlines"
method: GET
path: "/api/search"
---

# Search headlines

`GET /api/search`

Full-text news search — the endpoint for 'what is the news on <topic>'. Prefix full-text ranking with a fuzzy fallback for typos / partial words. Returns the standard Article shape; every item links to the publisher's canonical URL.

## Query parameters

- `q` string, required
- `category` string
- `limit` integer

## Response `200`

OK

- SearchResponse
  - `articles` Article[], required
    - `category` string, required
    - `description` string, nullable — Publisher-supplied summary, HTML-stripped + ≤500 chars.
    - `headline` string, required
    - `id` string, required
    - `image_height` integer, nullable
    - `image_url` string, uri, nullable
    - `image_width` integer, nullable
    - `published_at` string, date-time, required
    - `source` string, required
    - `url` string, uri, required — Publisher canonical URL — link out to this, not back to Noozra.
  - `count` integer, required
  - `query` string, required — Echo of the query that was run.

## Other responses

- `400` — Missing or invalid query
- `401` — Invalid API token
- `429` — Daily rate limit exceeded (honor the Retry-After header)

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[API](https://skmtc.dev/noozra/apis/noozra-news-api.md) · [All operations](https://skmtc.dev/noozra/apis/noozra-news-api/llms.txt) · [OpenAPI document](https://skmtc-service-production.skmtc.workers.dev/v1/apis/noozra/noozra-news-api/revisions/3eea5c31bc3a/schema)