Discover the acronym catalog
Exactacronyms_catalogDeterministic and authoritative — the canonical answer for this input.
Discover what the acronym catalog contains: available industries (healthcare, it, legal, general), categories within each industry, entry counts, and unique abbreviation counts. Use this before calling expand/contract to know what domains and categories are available. Pass industry to get a detailed breakdown of one domain, or omit for a summary of all. Counts bucket by each entry's own industry — the same axis expand/contract filter by — so the stats always describe what an industry filter can actually reach.
Parameters
industrystringoptionalFilter to a specific industry (e.g. 'healthcare', 'it', 'legal'). Omit for a summary of all industries.
Call it
curl -X POST https://api.snipget.ai/v1/acronyms/catalog \
-H "Authorization: Bearer sk_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{}'Example response
{
"industries": [
"general",
"healthcare",
"it",
"legal"
],
"total_entries": 931,
"unique_abbreviations": 858,
"by_industry": {
"general": {
"total_entries": 21,
"categories": [
"executive_title",
"org_suffix",
"professional",
"state"
],
"category_counts": {
"executive_title": 8,
"org_suffix": 11,
"professional": 1,
"state": 1
},
"unique_abbreviations": 19
},
"healthcare": {
"total_entries": 796,
"categories": [
"certification",
"credential",
"degree",
"executive_title",
"facility"
],
"category_counts": {
"certification": 594,
"credential": 8,
"degree": 189,
"executive_title": 2,
"facility": 3
},
"unique_abbreviations": 746
},
"it": {
"total_entries": 66,
"categories": [
"ai",
"architecture",
"cloud",
"data",
"data_format",
"database",
"devops",
"hardware",
"infrastructure",
"networking",
"principle",
"security",
"tooling",
"web"
],
"category_counts": {
"ai": 6,
"architecture": 9,
"cloud": 3,
"data": 2,
"data_format": 4,
"database": 3,
"devops": 3,
"hardware": 5,
"infrastructure": 4,
"networking": 5,
"principle": 2,
"security": 10,
"tooling": 4,
"web": 6
},
"unique_abbreviations": 66
},
"legal": {
"total_entries": 48,
"categories": [
"agency",
"concept",
"degree",
"document",
"entity_type",
"filing",
"identifier",
"regulation",
"title"
],
"category_counts": {
"agency": 4,
"concept": 1,
"degree": 3,
"document": 7,
"entity_type": 21,
"filing": 1,
"identifier": 4,
"regulation": 6,
"title": 1
},
"unique_abbreviations": 48
}
}
}FAQ
What is this for?
It tells you what the acronym catalog covers before you start looking things up. You get the list of industries, the categories inside each one, and how many entries and unique abbreviations each holds, so you know whether your domain is supported.
Does it give me the actual list of acronyms?
No. It returns counts and category names, not the individual acronyms or their meanings. To look up a specific acronym use the expand tool, and to go from a phrase to its short form use the contract tool.
How do I see just one industry?
Pass an industry, for example healthcare, it, legal, or general, to get the detailed breakdown for that one domain. Leave it off to get the summary across all industries at once.
Are the numbers exact?
Yes. This is a deterministic report of the maintained catalog, so the counts are the real current totals, not estimates. The same call returns the same figures until the catalog itself is updated.
What if I ask for an industry that does not exist?
An unknown industry is rejected with an INVALID_INPUT error listing the valid industries, and rejected calls are not billed. Pick a real one and try again.