/blind/posts/search

POST /api/blind/posts/search

Price: 20 credits

Search Blind (teamblind.com) community posts by keyword

How to use it

Search Blind (teamblind.com) anonymous community posts by keyword. Returns matching post cards, each with the post id/URL, title and body text, channel, the poster's anonymous handle and employer, like/comment/view counts, whether it is a poll, any images or link preview, and tags.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• query string required — Search keyword (examples: "layoffs", "google offer"; minLength: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of posts to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "BlindPostCard")
• alias string required
• post_title string nullable
• text string nullable
• url string required
• channel string nullable
• channel_url string nullable
• author object nullable
  • @type string (default: "BlindPostCardAuthor")
  • nickname string nullable
  • company string nullable
  • company_alias string nullable
  • company_image string nullable
• like_count integer nullable
• comment_count integer nullable
• view_count integer nullable
• is_poll boolean (default: false)
• poll_vote_count integer nullable
• images array (default: [])
• link object nullable
  • @type string (default: "BlindPostLink")
  • url string nullable
  • link_title string nullable
  • description string nullable
  • provider string nullable
  • image string nullable
• tags array (default: [])
• created_at integer 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.