suggest: Suggest terms

API: ac.uk:embl-ebi-ontology-lookup-service-ols-api
Endpoint: /suggest
Response format: application/json
Charset: utf-8
Auth: none
Method: GET
Last Status: 200
Latency: 543ms

Description

Returns suggested terms based on partial input (faster than select)

Parameters (1)

q (string, query, required)

Partial query string

Examples (2)

Suggest Terms openapi-spec
curl 'https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ols4/api/suggest?q=can'
import requests

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

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

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

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

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

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

Probe History

Latency

Status Codes

TimeStatusLatencySize
2026-04-16 17:36:55.843124 200 543ms
2026-04-16 03:12:46.302107 200 1618ms
2026-04-16 03:01:41.943991 200 1047ms
2026-04-15 03:14:10.692391 200 826ms
2026-04-15 01:34:55.931242 200 820ms
2026-04-14 01:31:37.754188 200 729ms
2026-04-14 01:25:14.644785 200 665ms
2026-04-12 16:12:12.205255 200 506ms
2026-04-12 14:51:18.205396 200 420ms
2026-04-10 03:01:57.171161 200 816ms
2026-04-10 00:03:11.286307 200 571ms
2026-04-09 03:00:28.983265 200 961ms
2026-04-09 01:32:09.146511 200 590ms
2026-04-08 07:44:01.868859 200 730ms
2026-04-08 07:01:42.841862 200 326ms
2026-04-07 01:13:28.139921 200 948ms
2026-04-07 01:01:29.753267 200 1207ms
2026-04-06 05:34:21.044616 200 466ms
2026-04-06 04:21:17.282584 200 525ms
2026-04-05 14:46:31.093935 200 1656ms
2026-04-05 14:11:08.661377 200 898ms
2026-03-23 10:19:32.899194 200 270ms
2026-03-23 09:29:49.838937 200 306ms