> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.heralded.ai/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Get Topics

> The topics buyers ask about from the latest scan's content pass in the
period, each with the brand's page for it and its status, most demand first.



## OpenAPI

````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json get /v1/brands/{brand_id}/topics
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  description: >-
    Read-only access to one organization's brands, as the member who created the
    API key. Each key may make 120 requests a minute. Every error is an RFC 9457
    problem (`application/problem+json`) whose `code` names it.
  summary: Read your brands' AI visibility in Heralded.
  title: Heralded API
  version: '1'
servers:
  - url: https://api.heralded.ai
security: []
paths:
  /v1/brands/{brand_id}/topics:
    get:
      tags:
        - v1
      summary: Get Topics
      description: >-
        The topics buyers ask about from the latest scan's content pass in the

        period, each with the brand's page for it and its status, most demand
        first.
      operationId: listTopics
      parameters:
        - in: path
          name: brand_id
          required: true
          schema:
            format: uuid
            title: Brand Id
            type: string
        - in: query
          name: engine
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - enum:
                  - perplexity
                  - gemini
                  - openai
                  - google_aio
                  - ai_mode
                  - copilot
                  - claude
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Engine
        - in: query
          name: prompt
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - format: uuid
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Prompt
        - in: query
          name: type
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - enum:
                  - organic
                  - brand_specific
                  - competitor_comparison
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Type
        - in: query
          name: intent
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - enum:
                  - educational
                  - problem
                  - comparison
                  - transactional
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Intent
        - in: query
          name: topic
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - format: uuid
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Topic
        - in: query
          name: segment
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Segment
        - description: Include only scans up to this completed scan id.
          in: query
          name: as_of
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - format: uuid
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            description: Include only scans up to this completed scan id.
            title: As Of
        - in: query
          name: limit
          required: false
          schema:
            default: 20
            maximum: 100
            minimum: 1
            title: Limit
            type: integer
        - in: query
          name: offset
          required: false
          schema:
            default: 0
            minimum: 0
            title: Offset
            type: integer
        - in: query
          name: cursor
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - maxLength: 4096
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Cursor
        - in: query
          name: period
          required: false
          schema:
            default: 1w
            enum:
              - 1w
              - 4w
              - 12w
              - all
            title: Period
            type: string
        - in: query
          name: status
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - enum:
                  - missing
                  - cited
                  - falls_short
                  - ranks_in_search
                  - not_cited
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Status
        - in: query
          name: q
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - maxLength: 200
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Q
        - in: query
          name: sort
          required: false
          schema:
            default: demand
            enum:
              - topic
              - status
              - demand
              - citations
              - search_clicks
              - ai_visits
              - rank
            title: Sort
            type: string
        - in: query
          name: direction
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - enum:
                  - asc
                  - desc
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Direction
        - in: query
          name: with_menus
          required: false
          schema:
            default: false
            title: With Menus
            type: boolean
        - in: query
          name: url
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - maxLength: 4096
                type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Url
      responses:
        '200':
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/V1Topics'
          description: Successful Response
        '400':
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              example:
                code: invalid_cursor
                detail: The cursor is invalid or belongs to a different query.
                instance: example-request-id
                status: 400
                title: Bad Request
                type: about:blank
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
          description: The cursor is invalid or belongs to a different query.
        '401':
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              example:
                code: invalid_token
                detail: >-
                  The Authorization header carries no API key Heralded knows: it
                  is missing, mistyped, revoked or expired.
                instance: example-request-id
                status: 401
                title: Unauthorized
                type: about:blank
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
          description: No API key, or one that is unknown, revoked or expired.
          headers:
            WWW-Authenticate:
              schema:
                example: Bearer
                type: string
        '404':
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              example:
                code: not_found
                detail: Nothing here that this API key can read.
                instance: example-request-id
                status: 404
                title: Not Found
                type: about:blank
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
          description: No such brand or answer, or the key's owner cannot read it.
        '409':
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              example:
                code: workspace_archived
                detail: The API key's organization is archived.
                instance: example-request-id
                status: 409
                title: Conflict
                type: about:blank
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/Problem'
          description: The API key's organization is archived.
        '422':
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              example:
                code: invalid_request
                detail: The request's parameters are invalid; `errors` names each one.
                errors:
                  - loc:
                      - query
                      - limit
                    msg: Input should be less than or equal to 100
                    type: less_than_equal
                instance: example-request-id
                status: 422
                title: Unprocessable Content
                type: about:blank
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationProblem'
          description: A path or query parameter is invalid.
        '429':
          content:
            application/problem+json:
              example:
                code: rate_limited
                detail: >-
                  This caller is past its requests for the minute. Retry after
                  the seconds in Retry-After.
                instance: example-request-id
                rate_limit:
                  limit: 120
                  remaining: 0
                  reset: 60
                  window: 60
                status: 429
                title: Too Many Requests
                type: about:blank
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimitProblem'
          description: The API key made more than 120 requests in the minute.
          headers:
            Retry-After:
              description: Seconds until the key may call again.
              schema:
                example: 60
                type: integer
      security:
        - apiKey: []
components:
  schemas:
    V1Topics:
      description: >-
        Topics buyers ask about from the latest scan's content pass in the
        period.
      properties:
        ai_visits_connected:
          title: Ai Visits Connected
          type: boolean
        cards:
          anyOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/V1TopicCards'
            - type: 'null'
        cited:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          description: >-
            Topics whose page is cited. Null where a weekly scan it covers could
            not keep all its citations.
          title: Cited
        covered:
          title: Covered
          type: integer
        limit:
          title: Limit
          type: integer
        menus:
          anyOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/PromptFilters'
            - type: 'null'
        meta:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Meta'
          description: Normalized query and newest included scan.
        missing:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          description: Null when the read saw too little of the site.
          title: Missing
        next_cursor:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          description: >-
            Pass as cursor with the same query to read the next page; null at
            the end.
          title: Next Cursor
        not_read_line:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Not Read Line
        offset:
          title: Offset
          type: integer
        period:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/V1Period'
        search_connected:
          title: Search Connected
          type: boolean
        sentence:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Sentence
        state:
          enum:
            - ready
            - awaiting_first_scan
            - not_measured
          title: State
          type: string
        statuses:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/TopicStatusOption'
          title: Statuses
          type: array
        topics:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/V1Topic'
          title: Topics
          type: array
        total:
          title: Total
          type: integer
      required:
        - meta
        - next_cursor
        - total
        - limit
        - offset
        - period
        - state
        - covered
        - cited
        - missing
        - topics
        - sentence
        - cards
        - not_read_line
        - statuses
        - menus
        - search_connected
        - ai_visits_connected
      title: V1Topics
      type: object
    Problem:
      description: |-
        An RFC 9457 problem. `type` is always `about:blank`, so `title` is the
        status's name, and `code` is what a client branches on.
      properties:
        code:
          title: Code
          type: string
        detail:
          title: Detail
          type: string
        instance:
          default: ''
          title: Instance
          type: string
        status:
          title: Status
          type: integer
        title:
          title: Title
          type: string
        type:
          const: about:blank
          default: about:blank
          title: Type
          type: string
      required:
        - type
        - title
        - status
        - detail
        - code
        - instance
      title: Problem
      type: object
    ValidationProblem:
      properties:
        code:
          title: Code
          type: string
        detail:
          title: Detail
          type: string
        errors:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationIssue'
          title: Errors
          type: array
        instance:
          default: ''
          title: Instance
          type: string
        status:
          title: Status
          type: integer
        title:
          title: Title
          type: string
        type:
          const: about:blank
          default: about:blank
          title: Type
          type: string
      required:
        - type
        - title
        - status
        - detail
        - code
        - instance
        - errors
      title: ValidationProblem
      type: object
    RateLimitProblem:
      properties:
        code:
          title: Code
          type: string
        detail:
          title: Detail
          type: string
        instance:
          default: ''
          title: Instance
          type: string
        rate_limit:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/RateLimitValues'
        status:
          title: Status
          type: integer
        title:
          title: Title
          type: string
        type:
          const: about:blank
          default: about:blank
          title: Type
          type: string
      required:
        - type
        - title
        - status
        - detail
        - code
        - instance
        - rate_limit
      title: RateLimitProblem
      type: object
    V1TopicCards:
      properties:
        ai_visits:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          title: Ai Visits
        cited:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          title: Cited
        cited_change:
          anyOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/TopicCardChange'
            - type: 'null'
        covered:
          title: Covered
          type: integer
        covered_change:
          anyOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/TopicCardChange'
            - type: 'null'
        missing:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          title: Missing
        missing_new:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          title: Missing New
        total:
          title: Total
          type: integer
      required:
        - covered
        - total
        - cited
        - missing
        - missing_new
        - ai_visits
        - covered_change
        - cited_change
      title: V1TopicCards
      type: object
    PromptFilters:
      description: >-
        What the toolbar's four menus offer, counted over every tracked prompt

        rather than over the page (PR-4). A menu built from one page of ten
        would

        hide the segment the eleventh row is in.
      properties:
        intents:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PromptFilterOption'
          title: Intents
          type: array
        segments:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PromptFilterOption'
          title: Segments
          type: array
        topics:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PromptFilterOption'
          title: Topics
          type: array
        types:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/PromptFilterOption'
          title: Types
          type: array
      required:
        - segments
        - types
        - intents
        - topics
      title: PromptFilters
      type: object
    Meta:
      properties:
        data_as_of:
          anyOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/DataAsOf'
            - type: 'null'
        query:
          additionalProperties:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/JsonValue'
          title: Query
          type: object
      required:
        - query
        - data_as_of
      title: Meta
      type: object
    V1Period:
      properties:
        excluded_reports:
          title: Excluded Reports
          type: integer
        first_answer_at:
          anyOf:
            - format: date-time
              type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: First Answer At
        last_answer_at:
          anyOf:
            - format: date-time
              type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Last Answer At
        preset:
          enum:
            - 1w
            - 4w
            - 12w
            - all
          title: Preset
          type: string
        reports:
          title: Reports
          type: integer
      required:
        - preset
        - reports
        - first_answer_at
        - last_answer_at
        - excluded_reports
      title: V1Period
      type: object
    TopicStatusOption:
      properties:
        count:
          title: Count
          type: integer
        label:
          title: Label
          type: string
        value:
          enum:
            - missing
            - cited
            - falls_short
            - ranks_in_search
            - not_cited
          title: Value
          type: string
      required:
        - value
        - label
        - count
      title: TopicStatusOption
      type: object
    V1Topic:
      properties:
        action:
          anyOf:
            - enum:
                - write
                - rewrite
              type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Action
        action_label:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Action Label
        ai_visits:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          title: Ai Visits
        citations:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          description: >-
            The page's citations in the period; null on a missing topic. Null
            where a weekly scan it covers could not keep all its citations.
          title: Citations
        demand:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          title: Demand
        id:
          description: The topic's key, which topics/{id} takes.
          title: Id
          type: string
        open_action_id:
          anyOf:
            - format: uuid
              type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Open Action Id
        page:
          anyOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/V1TopicPage'
            - type: 'null'
          description: The brand's page for it; null when missing.
        piece:
          anyOf:
            - $ref: '#/components/schemas/TopicPiece'
            - type: 'null'
        search_clicks:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          title: Search Clicks
        status:
          enum:
            - missing
            - cited
            - falls_short
            - ranks_in_search
            - not_cited
          title: Status
          type: string
        status_label:
          title: Status Label
          type: string
        topic:
          title: Topic
          type: string
        why:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Why
      required:
        - id
        - topic
        - status
        - page
        - demand
        - citations
        - search_clicks
        - ai_visits
        - status_label
        - action
        - action_label
        - piece
        - open_action_id
        - why
      title: V1Topic
      type: object
    ValidationIssue:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: integer
          title: Loc
          type: array
        msg:
          title: Msg
          type: string
        type:
          title: Type
          type: string
      required:
        - loc
        - msg
        - type
      title: ValidationIssue
      type: object
    RateLimitValues:
      properties:
        limit:
          title: Limit
          type: integer
        remaining:
          title: Remaining
          type: integer
        reset:
          title: Reset
          type: integer
        window:
          title: Window
          type: integer
      required:
        - limit
        - window
        - remaining
        - reset
      title: RateLimitValues
      type: object
    TopicCardChange:
      properties:
        baseline:
          title: Baseline
          type: string
        delta:
          title: Delta
          type: integer
        direction:
          enum:
            - up
            - down
            - steady
          title: Direction
          type: string
        label:
          title: Label
          type: string
      required:
        - direction
        - delta
        - label
        - baseline
      title: TopicCardChange
      type: object
    PromptFilterOption:
      properties:
        count:
          title: Count
          type: integer
        label:
          title: Label
          type: string
        value:
          title: Value
          type: string
      required:
        - value
        - label
        - count
      title: PromptFilterOption
      type: object
    DataAsOf:
      properties:
        completed_at:
          format: date-time
          title: Completed At
          type: string
        id:
          format: uuid
          title: Id
          type: string
      required:
        - id
        - completed_at
      title: DataAsOf
      type: object
    JsonValue: {}
    V1TopicPage:
      properties:
        id:
          anyOf:
            - format: uuid
              type: string
            - type: 'null'
          description: The page's id in pages; null when not registered.
          title: Id
        path:
          title: Path
          type: string
        title:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Title
        url:
          title: Url
          type: string
      required:
        - path
        - id
        - url
        - title
      title: V1TopicPage
      type: object
    TopicPiece:
      description: |-
        The piece a Missing topic already has, in the words Studio uses.

        `piece_id` is null while the order is still being placed: the brand's
        first order is dispatched before its writing profile exists, and the
        piece row is written once the worker has one.
      properties:
        action_id:
          title: Action Id
          type: string
        piece_id:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Piece Id
        stage:
          title: Stage
          type: string
        stage_words:
          title: Stage Words
          type: string
      required:
        - action_id
        - piece_id
        - stage
        - stage_words
      title: TopicPiece
      type: object
  securitySchemes:
    apiKey:
      description: 'An API key, sent as `Authorization: Bearer hrld_...`.'
      scheme: bearer
      type: http

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