{domain}: Search within a specific domain

API: ac.uk:ebi-search-api
Endpoint: /ws/rest/{domain}
Response format: application/json
Charset: utf-8
Auth: none
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 262ms

Description

Search within a specific data domain (e.g., uniprot, embl, chembl-molecule). Returns matching entries with optional field retrieval.

Parameters (10)

domain (string, path, required)

Domain identifier (e.g., 'uniprot', 'embl', 'chembl-molecule', 'pdbe')

facetcount (integer, query, optional, default: 10)

Number of facet values to return

facets (string, query, optional)

Comma-separated list of facet fields to include

fields (string, query, optional)

Comma-separated list of fields to retrieve (domain-specific)

format (string, query, optional, default: xml)

Response format

Constraints: {'enum': ['xml', 'json']}

order (string, query, optional, default: desc)

Sort order

Constraints: {'enum': ['asc', 'desc']}

query (string, query, required)

Search query string (Lucene syntax supported)

size (integer, query, optional, default: 10)

Number of results to return (default: 10)

Constraints: {'minimum': 1, 'maximum': 1000}

sort (string, query, optional)

Field to sort results by

start (integer, query, optional, default: 0)

Starting position for pagination (0-based)

Examples (1)

Search within a specific domain openapi-spec
curl 'https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebisearch/ws/rest/uniprot?fields=name%2Cdescription%2Corganism'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebisearch/ws/rest/uniprot",
    params={
        'fields': 'name,description,organism',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("ebi-search")
result = api.fetch("ws/rest/{domain}", fields="name,description,organism")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ebisearch/ws/rest/uniprot?fields=name%2Cdescription%2Corganism");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 02:20:10.715351 200 262ms
2026-04-15 01:41:39.026089 200 217ms
2026-04-14 01:50:22.050302 200 254ms
2026-04-12 14:23:31.420911 200 282ms
2026-04-10 02:51:17.917063 200 1283ms
2026-04-09 00:45:33.230403 200 257ms
2026-04-08 07:39:30.857605 200 221ms
2026-04-07 00:28:03.722102 200 280ms
2026-04-06 05:51:10.928514 200 242ms
2026-04-05 14:36:22.517505 200 411ms
2026-04-05 00:40:25.231853 200 236ms
2026-04-04 02:19:50.429993 200 384ms
2026-04-03 12:03:52.293872 200 217ms
2026-03-30 02:27:29.093339 200 234ms
2026-03-29 13:13:19.147650 200 190ms
2026-03-23 10:26:36.835109 200 138ms