select: Autocomplete/select suggestions

API: ac.uk:embl-ebi-ontology-lookup-service-ols-api
Endpoint: /select
Response format: application/json
Charset: utf-8
Auth: none
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 5596ms

Description

Returns autocomplete suggestions for a partial query string. Useful for building type-ahead search interfaces.

Parameters (4)

ontology (string, query, optional)

Filter by ontology ID

q (string, query, required)

Search query string

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

Number of suggestions to return

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

Starting offset for pagination

Examples (2)

Select/Autocomplete openapi-spec
curl 'https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/select?q=diab'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/select",
    params={
        'q': 'diab',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("embl-ebi-ontology-lookup-service-ols")
result = api.fetch("select", q="diab")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/select?q=diab");
const data = await resp.json();
Autocomplete/select terms openapi-spec
curl 'https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/select?q=cell'
import requests

resp = requests.get(
    "https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/select",
    params={
        'q': 'cell',
    },
)
data = resp.json()
import zingu_apis

api = zingu_apis.api("embl-ebi-ontology-lookup-service-ols")
result = api.fetch("select", q="cell")

for item in result:
    print(item)
const resp = await fetch("https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/select?q=cell");
const data = await resp.json();

Probe History

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2026-04-16 03:57:36.951048 200 5596ms
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