UCSF Industry Documents Library Solr API
Public, unauthenticated Apache Solr query interface over the UCSF Industry Documents Library, an archive of 28,298,987 internal documents from the tobacco, drug, chemical, food, fossil fuel and opioid industries, produced in litigation and preserved by the UCSF Library Center for Knowledge Management. Documents are retrieved by eight-character ID or by Solr field query with AND / OR / NOT and explicit parentheses, and serialized as xml, json, python, ruby, php or csv. UCSF documents the interface in its "Industry Documents Data API v5" PDF. Two defects were confirmed on 2026-08-19: the documented `rows` parameter is accepted and echoed back but not honoured — the deployed page size is 1000 records, not the documented 100 — and the documentation page UCSF links to is now a client-side route in a single-page application that returns the same 200 shell for every path, so the authoritative PDF survives only in the Internet Archive. Verified live 2026-08-19.
UCSF Industry Documents Library Solr API is one of 8 APIs that University of California, San Francisco publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Digital Archive, Search, Solr, Litigation Documents, and Public Health. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a JSON-LD context, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 5.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://solr.idl.ucsf.edu/solr/ltdl3.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 1
Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Query the IDL document corpus by identifier or by Solr query syntax.
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are IndustryDocument (26 properties), SolrResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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