# /displayspecifications/models/search

`POST /api/displayspecifications/models/search`

Price: 5 credits

Search the DisplaySpecifications catalogue with the site's own Display Finder filters: monitors or TVs, announcement period, panel and backlight technology, HDR support, native resolution, size class and refresh-rate range, broadcast tuner, and the ergonomic and sync features. Returns model cards with the id, page URL, name, screen size, image and the spec summary the source shows on hover.

## How to use it

`device_type` is required because the source keeps monitors and TVs in separate catalogues with no combined view, and the ergonomic filters only narrow monitors while the tuner and eARC/ALLM/VRR/HFR filters only narrow TVs. `resolution` matches one exact panel resolution, not a minimum. Size and refresh rate accept only the discrete values the source's own sliders offer, so an in-between number is rejected rather than rounded. The source answers with a fixed head of the match set and publishes no total, so treat the result as a sample and narrow the filters to reach a particular model. `summary_fields` gives the hover summary already split into named measurements; the model endpoint has the full sheet.

## Parameters

- `access-token` (string, required)

## Request body

- `timeout` (integer) — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
- `count` (integer, required) — Max number of models to return (min: 1; max: 60)
- `device_type` (string, required) — Which catalogue to search; the source keeps monitors and TVs apart and has no combined view (one of: "monitor", "tv")
- `locale` (string) — Language of the returned spec summaries; model titles do not translate (default: "en"; one of: "en", "de", "es", "fr", "ru", "bg")
- `period` (string) — Keep only models announced in this year or window (default: "all"; one of: "all", "2026", "2025", "2024", "2023", "2022", "2021", "2020", "2019", "2018", "2017", "past_6_months", "past_12_months")
- `panel` (string) — Keep only models with this panel technology (default: "any"; one of: "any", "TN", "IPS", "VA", "OLED")
- `backlight` (string) — Keep only models with this backlight technology (default: "any"; one of: "any", "CCFL", "W-LED", "GB-r LED", "Edge LED", "Direct LED", "Direct LED (FALD)", "Mini LED")
- `hdr` (string) — Keep only models supporting this HDR format or certification (default: "any"; one of: "any", "HDR", "HDR10", "HDR10+", "VESA DisplayHDR 400", "VESA DisplayHDR 600", "VESA DisplayHDR 1000", "VESA DisplayHDR 1400", "Dolby Vision")
- `resolution` (string, nullable) — Keep only models with exactly this native resolution (one of: "1280x720", "1280x1024", "1366x720", "1366x766", "1366x768", "1440x900", "1600x900", "1600x1200", "1680x1050", "1920x108", "1920x1080", "1920x1200", "2560x1440", "2560x1080", "2560x1600", "5120x1440", "3440x1440", "3840x1080", "3840x1200", "3840x1600", "3840x2160", "3840x2560", "4096x2160", "4096x2304", "5120x2160", "5120x2880", "6016x3384", "6144x2560", "6144x3456", "7680x2160", "7680x4320")
- `size_inches_min` (integer, nullable) — Smallest declared size class, in whole inches as the manufacturer states it (min: 10; max: 89)
- `size_inches_max` (integer, nullable) — Largest declared size class, in whole inches as the manufacturer states it (min: 10; max: 89)
- `refresh_hz_min` (integer, nullable) — Lowest vertical refresh rate over the digital inputs, in Hz (min: 50; max: 1100)
- `refresh_hz_max` (integer, nullable) — Highest vertical refresh rate over the digital inputs, in Hz (min: 50; max: 1100)
- `tv_tuner` (string, nullable) — Keep only TVs carrying this broadcast tuner (one of: "dvbt", "atsc")
- `curved` (boolean) — Keep only models with a curved screen (default: false)
- `vesa_mount` (boolean) — Keep only models with a VESA mounting interface (default: false)
- `adaptive_sync` (boolean) — Keep only models supporting VESA Adaptive-Sync (default: false)
- `amd_freesync` (boolean) — Keep only models supporting AMD FreeSync (default: false)
- `nvidia_gsync` (boolean) — Keep only models supporting Nvidia G-Sync (default: false)
- `flicker_free` (boolean) — Keep only models advertised as flicker-free (default: false)
- `low_blue_light` (boolean) — Keep only models with a low blue light mode (default: false)
- `removable_stand` (boolean) — Keep only models whose stand can be removed (default: false)
- `height_adjustable` (boolean) — Keep only models with a height-adjustable stand (default: false)
- `pivot_adjustable` (boolean) — Keep only models whose screen can pivot to portrait (default: false)
- `swivel_adjustable` (boolean) — Keep only models whose stand swivels (default: false)
- `tilt_adjustable` (boolean) — Keep only models whose screen tilts (default: false)
- `earc` (boolean) — Keep only models with an enhanced audio return channel (default: false)
- `allm` (boolean) — Keep only models with auto low latency mode (default: false)
- `vrr` (boolean) — Keep only models with a variable refresh rate (default: false)
- `hfr` (boolean) — Keep only models with a high frame rate mode (default: false)

## Response

### 200 — Successful Response

- `@type` (string) (default: "DisplayspecificationsModelCard")
- `id` (string, required)
- `url` (string, required)
- `name` (string, required)
- `size_inches` (number, nullable)
- `image` (string, nullable)
- `summary` (string, nullable)
- `summary_fields` (object) (default: {})
  - `*` (string)

## Errors

### 422 — Validation Error

The request body did not validate

What to do: Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.

- `detail` (array)
  - `loc` (array, required)
  - `msg` (string, required)
  - `type` (string, required)
  - `input` (any)
  - `ctx` (object)

### 408

The request ran past its time limit

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: 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

What to do: Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

## Response envelope

Success: Array of objects (may be empty if no results)

Error: Error may coexist with partial results if it occurs mid-execution. Check X-Error header and status code.

Every response carries these 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.