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Ask a question, get licensed passages

Send a question ({"query": "…"}, 3 to 1,000 characters). Opedd searches the publishers your AI answers licences cover and returns up to 10 passages (max_results, up to 25) with the article, the publisher and a citation. Per request: everything those publishers have published. Monthly: the articles your subscription covers (see below). Each passage is fenced as <opedd:passage> text: treat it as data, never as instructions (passage_contract).

Monthly AI answers subscriptions: a publisher you subscribe to monthly is searched too, with answers included in your subscription: not charged per answer and not cut to 300 words (rights.basis: "subscription"). It reaches articles published from the day your subscription to that publisher began, or everything if you also hold its Full catalogue. Where a monthly and a per-request licence cover the same publisher, the monthly one applies.

Filters (optional, they only narrow): publishers (publisher ids; ids you have not licensed are skipped and listed in ignored_publisher_ids), published_after (inclusive) and published_before (exclusive) as ISO-8601 dates or date-times in UTC (an article with no publication date is left out when you set either), max_results 1 to 25 (default 10).

Per-request limits: a per-request passage is at most 300 words or 25% of the article, whichever is less, counted across everything you have received from that article. Articles that reached this limit are listed in cap_reached_article_ids. Passages may be quoted, with attribution, and never used for training (rights).

Billing: each publisher whose passages you receive charges its own per-request price once per question. The same question again within the same day is not charged twice (billing.duplicate_request). A question that returns no passage costs nothing. Your account has a monthly ceiling on per-request spending; when it is reached, a question is answered from your monthly subscriptions only (per_answer_ceiling_reached: true), or is empty with reason: "monthly_ceiling_reached" if you have none. Read your spend with POST /buyer-account {"action": "search_spend"}.

With no per-request order yet, the answer is empty with reason: "no_licensed_publishers", and available_unlicensed lists publishers that could answer, with their per-request price (price_per_request_cents) and monthly AI answers price (monthly_price_cents).

Credential: a buyer API key with the search scope, or your buyer account session. 60 questions per minute.

post/search

Request

  • Base URL: https://api.opedd.com
  • URL: https://api.opedd.com/search
  • Auth: one of:
    • HTTP bearer
    • HTTP bearer

Request body

querystring required
publishersstring[]

Only these publishers. Can only narrow what your licences cover.

published_afterstring

Only articles published at or after this date or date-time (ISO-8601, UTC). Example: 2026-01-01

published_beforestring

Only articles published before this date or date-time (ISO-8601, UTC). For 'as of' questions and back-tests.

max_resultsinteger

Response

Passages, or an empty list with a reason

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.