API Documentation

Integrate the source-linked Vanagon and Volkswagen bus lexicon into applications and agents. The preserved page has 95 English entries in its original Bus terminology and Mailing list slang categories. Spanish, French, German, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, and Japanese entries are machine-assisted drafts that have not been human-reviewed. Dynamic translation generation is currently unavailable; the API reports this explicitly and does not create placeholder jobs.

OpenAPI

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Full context

Source and corpus notes

MCP

Dictionary agent endpoint

Preserved corpus

Original categories and source status

Bus terminology: 76 historical entries
Mailing list slang: 19 historical entries
No per-term tags were present in the archived page
Six non-English locales contain unreviewed machine-assisted drafts
Dynamic translation generation is unavailable until a provider is configured

The requested archive timestamp was December 31, 2007; the capture used was December 30, 2007. See Vanagon's preserved dictionary page for the source context. Historical wording is not current repair or safety advice.

Base URL

Public dictionary REST API

https://dictionary.ja1.io/api/v1

Public read endpoints

Use the OpenAPI document for full query and response schemas.

GET/api/v1/terms

List public terms with pagination and locale selection.

Parameters: locale, limit, offset, sort

GET/api/v1/terms/{slug}

Get a source-linked term and its available definition.

Parameters: locale

GET/api/v1/search

Search public Vanagon dictionary entries.

Parameters: q, locale, limit

GET/api/v1/categories

List source categories and approved public categories.

Parameters: limit, offset

GET/api/v1/tags

List editorial tags on approved public entries; the historical source itself supplied no per-term tags.

Parameters: limit, offset

GET/api/v1/locales

List supported locales and translation status.

Parameters: none

Read a term

Public reads do not require credentials.

curl 'https://dictionary.ja1.io/api/v1/terms/syncro?locale=ja'

Definition submissions and operator writes require PLATPHORM_API_KEY. The public submission page currently saves a private browser draft and does not send or publish it. Never put an operator key in browser storage or a public example.

Discovery and machine interfaces

Public service documentation and feeds

/llms.txt

Concise service and source summary

/llms-full.txt

Full source-backed dictionary context

/llms-index.json

Machine-readable discovery index

/sitemap.xml

XML sitemap

/rss.xml

RSS feed