JAIL Search
Search documents. Returns ranked results with title, author, year, description, url, id, score — not full content. Use URLs from results with fetch/browsing to read actual documents.
Use when: user asks to research, find papers/books/articles, look up facts, find discussions, legal cases, or any "search for..." request.
Strategy: use 2-4 keywords per query (English preferred). Pick the right type first. Try synonyms if few results. Search across multiple types to cross-reference. Use detail() for full metadata on promising results.
Types
| Type | Content |
|---|---|
academic |
OpenAlex/arXiv/Semantic Scholar/DBLP |
wiki |
Wikipedia 18 languages |
books |
books/digital libraries |
legal |
Case Law/CourtListener/EUR-Lex |
forums |
HN/StackExchange/Lobsters/LessWrong/60+ |
economics |
World Bank/IMF/FRED |
packages |
npm/PyPI/Crates.io |
knowledge |
Wikidata |
news |
news articles |
music |
Discogs/MusicBrainz |
video |
IMDb/YouTube |
health |
clinical trials |
geo |
world places |
fandom |
fan wikis |
tech |
Dev.to |
audio |
podcasts |
social |
Reddit/Mastodon/Lemmy |
crypto |
DeFi/tokens |
predictions |
prediction markets |
Search
curl -Gs "https://api.jail.li/v1/search" --data-urlencode "q=QUERY" -d "type=TYPE&limit=10"
Paginate: add &cursor=CURSOR using next_cursor from previous response.
Detail
curl -s "https://api.jail.li/v1/detail/DOC_ID"
With API key: add -H "Authorization: Bearer $JAIL_API_KEY"