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GET /v1/search

Search MCCs by description

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/mcc-api/v1/search" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/mcc-api/v1/search", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/mcc-api/v1/search");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/mcc-api/v1/search",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "count": 2,
        "limit": 20,
        "query": "restaurant",
        "total": 2,
        "offset": 0,
        "results": [
            {
                "mcc": "5812",
                "description": "Eating places and Restaurants",
                "irs_reportable": false,
                "irs_description": "Eating Places, Restaurants",
                "usda_description": "Eating places and Restaurants",
                "combined_description": "Eating places and Restaurants"
            },
            {
                "mcc": "5814",
                "description": "Fast Food Restaurants",
                "irs_reportable": false,
                "irs_description": "Fast Food Restaurants",
                "usda_description": "Fast Food Restaurants",
                "combined_description": "Fast Food Restaurants"
            }
        ],
        "irs_reportable": null
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-31T05:48:03.450Z",
        "request_id": "69d4617f-756d-4331-8b31-343e3eb73c2d"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "MCCs listed",
    "success": true
}