Usage notes

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/rfam-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/rfam-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/rfam-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($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/rfam-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

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

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Rfam is the curated database of non-coding RNA families — functional RNAs grouped by sequence and secondary structure, each modelled by a covariance model. /v1/search?q=riboswitch = search families by name, description or RNA type, returning each family's Rfam accession, name, description, RNA type and curators; /v1/family?id=RF00005 = a family's full record (Rfam id, description, RNA type, curators/author, number of sequences in the full and seed alignments, structure source, curator comment, the clan it belongs to and the Rfam release); /v1/type?type=riboswitch = browse families by RNA class — riboswitch, miRNA, rRNA, tRNA, snRNA, snoRNA, ribozyme, lncRNA, CRISPR, antisense, sRNA, leader, thermoregulator, IRES, frameshift_element and more. Family accessions look like RF00005 (tRNA). Data from EMBL-EBI Rfam. For protein families & domains see the InterPro API, for protein sequences UniProt, for proteomics datasets PRIDE.",
        "source": "Rfam — RNA families database, EMBL-EBI (rfam.org)",
        "endpoints": [
            "/v1/search",
            "/v1/family",
            "/v1/type",
            "/v1/meta"
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T08:13:13.629Z",
        "request_id": "e5a6d5c9-3ac4-44ad-a052-0c2118b85ac7"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}