Initially designed to find links on websites using Sefaria's Linker, the Find Refs API can identify textual references in any arbitrary text that gets sent to it via a structured POST request.

This is an asynchronous API. The endpoint immediately returns a task_id with HTTP 202. You must poll GET /api/async/{task_id} to retrieve the task status. When the task completes successfully, the /api/async/{task_id} response will include a result field containing the same FindRefsAPIResponse object described in the 200 response schema below.