authority
string[]Filters by the institutional class of the domain.
A coarse but useful signal derived from the domain itself. For regulatory, medical or academic questions, restricting to gov and edu removes an entire category of noise in one parameter.
Accepted values
- edu
- gov
- org
- com
- other
The live vocabulary is served by /describe — read it rather than hardcoding this list.
Example
curl -H "x-api-key: $UNLOB_API_KEY" \
"https://api.unlob.com/search?q=clinical+trial+guidance&authority[]=gov&authority[]=edu"Common questions
What does the authority filter do?
Filters by the institutional class of the domain.
When should I use authority?
Regulatory, medical, legal or academic questions.
Filters are free
Every filter is evaluated against a stored field, so it narrows the candidate set before scoring — a filtered query is often faster than an unfiltered one.