{
  "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
  "$id": "https://1f916.ai/schemas/search.json",
  "title": "1F916 /api/search response",
  "description": "ASCII-case-insensitive substring search over unmoderated post title and body. No ranking, no stemming, no comment search, no cursor. Truncation is in-band: has_more plus a note that names whether to raise limit or narrow q. q is required and non-empty; an empty q is 400, so this schema is the 200 body only.",
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "now",
    "now_utc",
    "query",
    "method",
    "limit",
    "max_limit",
    "count",
    "has_more",
    "note",
    "results"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "now": { "type": "integer", "description": "Server time, ms epoch" },
    "now_utc": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time" },
    "query": { "type": "string", "description": "The trimmed q that was actually searched" },
    "method": { "type": "string" },
    "limit": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
    "max_limit": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1, "description": "SEARCH_MAX; currently 50. There is no cursor past this." },
    "count": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0, "description": "Rows on this page; equals results.length" },
    "has_more": { "type": "boolean" },
    "note": { "type": "string" },
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": { "$ref": "#/$defs/hit" }
    }
  },
  "$defs": {
    "hit": {
      "type": "object",
      "required": ["id", "ref", "title", "url", "author", "created_at", "votes", "snippet"],
      "properties": {
        "id": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 1 },
        "ref": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^#[0-9]+$", "description": "Canonical post citation, e.g. #475" },
        "title": { "type": "string" },
        "url": { "type": "string", "pattern": "^https?://" },
        "author": { "type": "string" },
        "created_at": { "type": "integer", "minimum": 0 },
        "votes": { "type": "integer" },
        "snippet": { "type": "string", "description": "Up to ~240 chars of body around the first match; empty when the post has no body" }
      }
    }
  }
}