/amnesty/research/search

POST /api/amnesty/research/search

Price: 20 credits

Search Amnesty International research documents by keyword, country, topic, type and date

How to use it

Values inside one filter are combined with OR and different filters with AND. Each language edition of a document is a separate result with its own language code.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• keyword string nullable — Free-text search over title and text (examples: "death penalty", "sudan"; minLength: 1)
• countries array nullable — Keep items tagged with any of these countries or regions (one of: "Afghanistan", "Africa", "Albania", "Algeria", "Americas", "Andorra", "Angola", "Antigua and Barbuda", "Aotearoa New Zealand", "Argentina", "Armenia", "Asia and the Pacific", "Australia", "Austria", "Azerbaijan", "Bahamas", "Bahrain", "Bangladesh", "Barbados", "Belarus", "Belgium", "Belize", "Benin", "Bhutan", "Bolivia", "Bosnia and Herzegovina", "Botswana", "Brazil", "Brunei Darussalam", "Bulgaria", "Burkina Faso", "Burundi", "Cabo Verde", "Cambodia", "Cameroon", "Canada", "Central African Republic", "Central America and the Caribbean", "Chad", "Chile", "China", "Colombia", "Comoros", "Congo", "Cook Islands", "Costa Rica", "Cote d'Ivoire", "Croatia", "Cuba", "Cyprus", "Czech Republic", "Democratic Republic", "Democratic Republic of the Congo", "Denmark", "Djibouti", "Dominica", "Dominican Republic", "drc", "East Africa, the Horn and Great Lakes", "East Asia", "Eastern Europe and Central Asia", "Ecuador", "Egypt", "El Salvador", "Equatorial Guinea", "Eritrea", "Estonia", "Eswatini", "Ethiopia", "Europe and Central Asia", "Fiji", "Finland", "France", "Gabon", "Gambia", "Georgia", "Germany", "Ghana", "Greece", "Grenada", "Guatemala", "Guinea", "Guinea-Bissau", "Guyana", "Haiti", "Honduras", "Hong Kong (China)", "Hungary", "Iceland", "India", "Indonesia", "Iran", "Iraq", "Ireland", "Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory", "Italy", "Jamaica", "Japan", "Jordan", "Kazakhstan", "Kenya", "Kiribati", "Kosovo", "Kuwait", "Kyrgyzstan", "Laos", "Latvia", "Lebanon", "Lesotho", "Liberia", "Libya", "Liechtenstein", "Lithuania", "Luxembourg", "Madagascar", "Malawi", "Malaysia", "Maldives", "Mali", "Malta", "Marshall Islands", "Mauritania", "Mauritius", "Mexico", "Micronesia", "Middle East", "Middle East and North Africa", "Moldova", "Monaco", "Mongolia", "Montenegro", "Morocco and Western Sahara", "Mozambique", "Myanmar", "Namibia", "Nauru", "Nepal", "Netherlands", "Nicaragua", "Niger", "Nigeria", "Niue", "North Africa", "North America", "North Korea", "North Macedonia", "Norway", "Oman", "Pakistan", "Palau", "Palestine (State of)", "Panama", "Papua New Guinea", "Paraguay", "Peru", "Philippines", "Poland", "Portugal", "Puerto Rico", "Qatar", "Romania", "Russia", "Rwanda", "Saint Kitts and Nevis", "Saint Lucia", "Saint Vincent and the Grenadines", "Samoa", "San Marino", "Sao Tome and Principe", "Saudi Arabia", "Senegal", "Serbia", "Seychelles", "Sierra Leone", "Singapore", "Slovakia", "Slovenia", "Solomon Islands", "Somalia", "South Africa", "South America", "South Asia", "South Korea", "South Sudan", "South-East Asia and the Pacific", "Southern Africa", "Spain", "Sri Lanka", "Sudan", "Suriname", "Sweden", "Switzerland", "Syria", "Taiwan", "Tajikistan", "Tanzania", "Thailand", "Timor-Leste", "Togo", "Tonga", "Trinidad and Tobago", "Tunisia", "Turkmenistan", "Tuvalu", "Türkiye", "Uganda", "Ukraine", "United Arab Emirates", "United Kingdom", "United States of America", "Uruguay", "Uzbekistan", "Vanuatu", "Vatican City", "Venezuela", "Viet Nam", "West and Central Africa", "Western, Central and South-Eastern Europe", "Yemen", "Zambia", "Zimbabwe")
• topics array nullable — Keep items tagged with any of these topics (one of: "Armed Conflict", "Armed Groups", "Arms Trade", "Asylum", "Business and Human Rights", "Censorship and Freedom of Expression", "Child Labour", "Child Soldiers", "Children", "Climate change", "Corporal Punishment", "Corporate Accountability", "COVID-19", "Death in Custody", "Death Penalty", "Detention", "Disappearances", "Discrimination", "Domestic Violence", "Drugs and Human Rights", "Economic, Social and Cultural Rights", "EU", "Exploitation of Natural Resources", "Freedom of Association", "Freedom of Movement", "Honour Crimes", "Human Rights Defenders and Activists", "Impunity", "Indigenous People", "Internally Displaced People", "International Justice", "International Organizations", "Internet and Social Media", "Justice Systems", "Killings and Disappearances", "LGBTI Rights", "Maternal Health and Reproductive Rights", "Migrants", "Older People", "Penal Institutions", "People Trafficking", "Persons with Disabilities", "Poverty", "Press Freedom", "Prisoners of Conscience", "Protests and Demonstrations", "Racial Discrimination", "Refugees", "Religious Groups", "Right to Education", "Right to Food", "Right to Health", "Right to Water", "Sexual Rights", "Sexual Violence", "Slums and the Right to Housing", "Social Security", "Strategic Litigation", "Taxation and Human Rights", "Technology and Human Rights", "Terrorism", "Torture and other ill-treatment", "Trade", "UN", "UN Convention Against Torture", "UN Convention on the Rights of the Child", "Unfair Trials", "Unlawful Detention", "Unlawful Killings", "War Crimes and Crimes Against Humanity", "Women and Girls", "Women's Rights", "Youth and Human Rights")
• resource_types array nullable — Keep items of any of these resource types (one of: "Action", "Annual Report", "Blog Post", "Campaign", "Governance", "Litigation Submission", "Newsletter", "Open Letter", "Position", "Press Release", "Public Statement", "Questions and Answers", "Report", "Research Briefing", "Story", "Urgent Action")
• published_after string nullable — Keep items published on or after this date (format: date; examples: "2026-01-01")
• published_before string nullable — Keep items published before this date (format: date; examples: "2010-01-01")
• sort string — Result order (default: "newest"; one of: "newest", "oldest", "relevance", "recently_updated")
• offset integer — Number of matching items to skip (default: 0; min: 0)
• count integer required — Max number of documents to return (min: 1; max: 1000)

Response

• @type string (default: "AmnestyDocument")
• id string required
• alias string nullable
• url string nullable
• description string nullable
• index_number string nullable
• language string nullable
• language_name string nullable
• published_year integer nullable
• classification string nullable
• subclassification string nullable
• file_url string nullable
• file_size integer nullable
• mime_type string nullable
• thumbnail string nullable
• published_at integer nullable
• updated_at integer nullable
• categories array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AmnestyTerm")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • alias string nullable
• countries array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AmnestyTerm")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • alias string nullable
• resource_types array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AmnestyTerm")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • alias string nullable
• topics array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "AmnestyTerm")
  • id string required
  • name string nullable
  • alias string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.