tech.waow.typeahead.searchActors
{
"$type": "com.atproto.lexicon.schema",
"defs": {
"actorBasic": {
"description": "Basic actor profile. Matches the shape of app.bsky.actor.defs#profileViewBasic minus the authenticated viewer state, so results are interchangeable with bluesky's for unauthenticated use.",
"properties": {
"associated": {
"description": "Pass-through of app.bsky.actor.defs#profileAssociated as last seen from the actor's profile (lists, feedgens, starter packs, chat settings); absent if never observed.",
"type": "unknown"
},
"avatar": {
"description": "Avatar image URL — usually a bluesky CDN URL, but may point directly at the actor's PDS blob endpoint for accounts bluesky's CDN no longer serves.",
"format": "uri",
"type": "string"
},
"createdAt": {
"description": "Account creation time as reported by the actor's profile view; absent if unknown.",
"format": "datetime",
"type": "string"
},
"did": {
"description": "The actor's decentralized identifier.",
"format": "did",
"type": "string"
},
"displayName": {
"description": "Self-declared display name from the actor's profile record; absent if unset.",
"maxGraphemes": 64,
"maxLength": 640,
"type": "string"
},
"handle": {
"description": "The actor's current handle, e.g. zzstoatzz.io.",
"format": "handle",
"type": "string"
},
"labels": {
"description": "Pass-through of the actor's com.atproto.label.defs#label array (self-labels and moderation-service labels) as last seen; may be empty.",
"type": "unknown"
}
},
"required": [
"did",
"handle"
],
"type": "object"
},
"main": {
"description": "Prefix search for atproto actors, ordered for typeahead use. Served entirely from a community-run index (https://typeahead.waow.tech); unauthenticated, CORS-enabled, results edge-cached for 60s. Also served at app.bsky.actor.searchActorsTypeahead as a drop-in migration alias with an identical response.",
"output": {
"encoding": "application/json",
"schema": {
"properties": {
"actors": {
"description": "Matching actors, best match first. Ranking blends prefix quality with a stored popularity score; actors hidden by moderation are excluded.",
"items": {
"ref": "#actorBasic",
"type": "ref"
},
"type": "array"
}
},
"required": [
"actors"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"parameters": {
"properties": {
"limit": {
"default": 10,
"description": "Maximum number of actors to return.",
"maximum": 100,
"minimum": 1,
"type": "integer"
},
"q": {
"description": "Search prefix; matched case-insensitively against handles and display names (CJK display names are matched via bigrams).",
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"q"
],
"type": "params"
},
"type": "query"
}
},
"id": "tech.waow.typeahead.searchActors",
"lexicon": 1
}
Metadata
- DID
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did:plc:y6kywgnb7xletjpa5hhxmd4k - CID
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bafyreiguixdlv2ddhlsbqcam5qoqi3gqqflak4wyonhtw4bwhh5ucghhvq - Indexed At
- 2026-08-17 05:17 UTC
- AT-URI
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at://did:plc:y6kywgnb7xletjpa5hhxmd4k/com.atproto.lexicon.schema/tech.waow.typeahead.searchActors
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