/kharon/briefs/search

POST /api/kharon/briefs/search

Price: 5 credits

Search The Brief, Kharon's sanctions and export-control investigative desk, newest article first. Narrows by free-text query and by the desk's own topic, content-type and region tags. Returns article cards with the URL alias, headline, standfirst, abstract, publication and revision dates, reading time, lede image and the full tag set; entries that point at an outside publication carry the outbound link.

How to use it

Use this to find articles, then pass a returned `alias` to /kharon/briefs for the body — cards carry no article text. Values inside one filter are OR'd while the three filters intersect, so topics=[sanctions, evasion] widens whereas adding regions=[china] narrows. `search` and the tag filters are both applied by the source, so an over-constrained query answers 412 rather than an empty list. Sort order is fixed to newest first and every call starts at the newest article, so raise `count` to reach further back — asking again with the same `count` returns the same leading articles.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• search string nullable — Full-text query matched by the source across the article corpus (examples: "Iran", "shadow fleet", "semiconductors"; minLength: 1)
• topics array nullable — Subject tags; several values widen the result set to their union (one of: "artificial_intelligence", "enforcement", "evasion", "export_controls", "forced_labor", "global_trade_and_supply_chains", "investment", "military_end_use", "national_security", "research_security", "sanctions", "terrorism", "transnational_crime")
• types array nullable — Content format; several values widen the result set to their union (one of: "article", "report", "snapshot", "webinar", "column", "story_collection", "data_viz")
• regions array nullable — Geographic tags; several values widen the result set to their union (one of: "africa", "asia_pacific", "central_asia", "china", "europe", "iran", "latin_america", "middle_east", "north_america", "north_korea", "oceania", "russia", "south_asia")
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1; max: 2000)

Response

• @type string (default: "KharonBriefCard")
• id string nullable
• alias string nullable
• url string nullable
• headline string nullable
• summary string nullable
• main_category string nullable
• read_time string nullable
• published_at string nullable
• created_at string nullable
• updated_at string nullable
• is_external boolean nullable
• external_link object nullable
  • @type string (default: "KharonLink")
  • text string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • link_type string nullable
  • target string nullable
• image object nullable
  • @type string (default: "KharonAsset")
  • id string nullable
  • url string nullable
  • alt string nullable
  • width integer nullable
  • height integer nullable
  • mime_type string nullable
• topics array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "KharonCategory")
  • id string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • duration string nullable
  • image object nullable
    • @type string (default: "KharonAsset")
    • id string nullable
    • url string nullable
    • alt string nullable
    • width integer nullable
    • height integer nullable
    • mime_type string nullable
• types array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "KharonCategory")
  • id string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • duration string nullable
  • image object nullable
    • @type string (default: "KharonAsset")
    • id string nullable
    • url string nullable
    • alt string nullable
    • width integer nullable
    • height integer nullable
    • mime_type string nullable
• regions array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "KharonCategory")
  • id string nullable
  • alias string nullable
  • duration string nullable
  • image object nullable
    • @type string (default: "KharonAsset")
    • id string nullable
    • url string nullable
    • alt string nullable
    • width integer nullable
    • height integer nullable
    • mime_type 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 — No brief matched the query and filters 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.