/worldbank/indicators/search

POST /api/worldbank/indicators/search

Price: 10 credits

Search the World Bank indicator catalog by keyword, topic or data source

How to use it

Browse and search the World Bank indicator catalog to find indicator codes. Filter by a keyword matched against the indicator name, by a topic id (e.g. Economy & Growth, Health, Climate Change), or by a data-source id. Each result gives the indicator code, name, source, a descriptive note and its topics. Use the returned code with the indicators endpoint to fetch values.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• keyword string nullable — Filter indicators whose name contains this text (examples: "gdp", "population", "unemployment")
• topic integer nullable — Restrict to indicators under this topic id (examples: 3, 8, 19; min: 1)
• source integer nullable — Restrict to indicators from this data source id (examples: 2, 16, 75; min: 1)
• count integer required — Max number of indicators to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "WorldbankIndicator")
• id string required
• name string nullable
• source object nullable
  • @type string (default: "WorldbankRef")
  • id string nullable
  • iso2_code string nullable
  • value string nullable
• source_note string nullable
• source_organization string nullable
• topics array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "WorldbankRef")
  • id string nullable
  • iso2_code string nullable
  • value 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.