Vanderbilt Television News Archive API
Public read API behind tvnews.vanderbilt.edu, self-identifying as the "TVNA Serverless API" v1.0.0. Search, browse and retrieve United States network television news broadcasts and segments recorded continuously since 5 August 1968 — 98,371 broadcasts, 969,224 news segments, 396,720 commercial segments, 58,517 hours of runtime. Every read operation probed returned 200 with no credential. Built and operated by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries; the source repository is HeardLibrary/TVNA-serverless-api. Vanderbilt publishes no OpenAPI for it, so the contract here is derived from live probes and is marked as such.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive API is one of 10 APIs that Vanderbilt University publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Television News, Digital Collections, Search, Media Archive, and Open Access. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 9 operations across 9 paths, organized into 4 resource areas, and defines 7 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 1.0.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://7itm2l2dz8.execute-api.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/prod.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 9
Across 9 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 7 GET, 2 POST. They span 4 resource areas: Service, Broadcasts, Search, Metadata. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Service identification.
Broadcast and segment records in the archive.
Keyword and faceted search over broadcast segments.
Controlled vocabularies used to filter the archive.
Schemas 7
The contract defines 7 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are BroadcastSegment (22 properties), SegmentSummary (6 properties), SegmentSearchResult (5 properties), ArchiveTotals (4 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
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Source
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