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Refinitiv Search API

Discovery and search across organizations, instruments, quotes, and economic indicators.

Refinitiv Search API is one of 45 APIs that Refinitiv publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, a getting-started guide, and pricing.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 2 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.refinitiv.com.

1 operations 1 paths 2 schemas 1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.1.0
API Version
1.0.0
Base URL
https://api.refinitiv.com
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Terms of Service
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Refinitiv Search API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearerAuth — OAuth 2.0 Bearer token obtained from the /auth/oauth2/v1/token endpoint. Access tokens are valid for five minutes.

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Search 1

Discovery and search across organizations, instruments, quotes, and economic indicators.

POST
/discovery/search/v1/
Search for Instruments
searchInstruments body → 200400401

Schemas 2

The contract defines 2 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SearchRequest (6 properties), SearchResponse (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

SearchResponse
object
2 properties
SearchRequest
object
6 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

refinitiv-search-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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