Korp API v8 — Corpus Concordance Search
Språkbanken Text's corpus search engine, and the largest publicly callable surface the University of Gothenburg operates. Fourteen operations over 1,133 corpora — concordance query, sampling, frequency counts, time-series counts, log-likelihood comparison, word picture (syntactic relations) and attribute-value discovery — using the CQP query language on top of IMS Open Corpus Workbench. Institution-operated: the single declared server is https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/ws/korp/v8 and info.contact is sb-info@svenska.gu.se. Verified live 2026-09-01: anonymous GET /info returned HTTP 200, 25,974 bytes, listing 1,133 corpora and reporting backend version 8.2.5 against a contract that declares 8.1.0.
Korp API v8 — Corpus Concordance Search is one of 14 APIs that University of Gothenburg publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Corpus Linguistics, Search, Language Technology, Natural Language Processing, and Swedish. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 14 operations across 14 paths, organized into 5 resource areas, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.2, at version 8.1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/ws/korp/v8.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Authentication & Security 1
Korp API v8 — Corpus Concordance Search declares
1 security scheme
for authenticating requests.
It accepts HTTP basic authentication (basicAuth).
By default, every request must be authenticated.
Paths & Operations 14
Across 14 paths, the API surfaces 14 operations — 14 GET. They span 5 resource areas: Information, Concordance, Statistics, Misc, Word Picture. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Schemas 2
The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is Match (3 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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