> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://docs.gowinston.ai/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Plagiarism > Winston AI's plagiarism API is a powerful tool designed to check text for plagiarism by scouring the internet for similar content. It queries multiple websites and compares the input text with the content found on these websites. This can be particularly useful in academic settings, content creation, legal scenarios or any other situation where originality of content is required. ## OpenAPI ````yaml POST /v2/plagiarism openapi: 3.0.1 info: title: Winston AI API description: Winston AI API specification license: name: MIT version: 4.11.4 servers: - url: https://api.gowinston.ai/ security: - bearerAuth: [] paths: /v2/plagiarism: post: description: >- Winston AI's plagiarism API is a powerful tool designed to check text for plagiarism by scouring the internet for similar content. It queries multiple websites and compares the input text with the content found on these websites. This can be particularly useful in academic settings, content creation, legal scenarios or any other situation where originality of content is required. requestBody: description: '' content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/PlagiarismV2' required: true responses: '200': description: Plagiarism response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Plagiarism-response-v2' '400': description: Bad Request content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string default: BAD_REQUEST description: type: string default: >- The request was invalid and could not be processed. Make sure you pass valid arguments. '401': description: Unauthorized content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string default: UNAUTHORIZED description: type: string default: >- Pass a valid API key in the Authorization header as a Bearer token. '402': description: Payment Required (insufficient credits) content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string default: PAYMENT_REQUIRED description: type: string default: >- Insufficient credits. Make sure you have enough credits to make the request. '403': description: Forbidden content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string default: FORBIDDEN description: type: string default: >- The request was forbidden. Make sure you pass a valid URL or document that we can access. '415': description: Unsupported Media Type content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string default: UNSUPPORTED_MEDIA_TYPE description: type: string default: >- The request content type is not supported. Make sure you pass a valid content type. '429': description: Too Many Requests content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string default: TOO_MANY_REQUESTS description: type: string default: You have exceeded the rate limit. Please try again later. '500': description: Internal Server Error content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string default: INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR description: type: string default: An unexpected error occurred. Please try again later. '503': description: Service Unavailable content: application/json: schema: type: object properties: error: type: string default: SERVICE_UNAVAILABLE description: type: string default: >- The service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. components: schemas: PlagiarismV2: required: - text type: object properties: text: description: >- The text to be scanned. This is required unless you provide a website or file. Each request must contain at least 100 characters and no more than 120,000 characters. type: string file: description: >- A publicly accessible URL to a file to scan. The file must be publicly available online (not a local file path) so our API can access it. The file must be in plain .pdf, .doc or .docx format. The file has priority over the text, so if you give a text and a file, it's the file that will be scanned. type: string website: description: >- A website URL to scan. If you supply a website, the API will fetch the content of the website and scan it. The website must be publicly accessible. It's important to know that the website has priority over the text and the file, so if you give a text, a file and a website, it's the website that will be scanned. type: string excluded_sources: description: >- An array of sources to exclude from the scan. The excluded sources won't be taken into account for the plagiarism scan score. Sources can either be a domain name like `example.com` or a url like `https://example.com`. If you specify a domain name, the API will exclude all the urls belonging to that domain and all subdomains. Sources are case-sensitive. type: array items: type: string language: description: |- 2 letter language code. Default: auto. If you put 'auto', the API will automatically detect the language of the text. The plagiarism-checking endpoint currently supports 47 languages: English (en), French (fr), German (de), Spanish (es), Portuguese (pt), Dutch (nl), Italian (it), Chinese (zh), Norwegian (no), Swedish (sv), Danish (da), Finnish (fi), Icelandic (is), Irish (ga), Polish (pl), Czech (cs), Slovak (sk), Romanian (ro), Hungarian (hu), Bulgarian (bg), Croatian (hr), Greek (el), Turkish (tr), Hebrew (he), Arabic (ar), Vietnamese (vi), Malay (ms), Thai (th), Korean (ko), Japanese (ja), Russian (ru), Kazakh (kk), Georgian (ka), Tagalog (tl), Hindi (hi), Bengali (bn), Persian (fa), Urdu (ur), Indonesian (id), Malayalam (ml), Tamil (ta), Telugu (te), Kannada (kn), Marathi (mr), Gujarati (gu), Ukrainian (uk) and Albanian (sq). type: string default: auto country: description: >- The country code of the country where the text was written. We accept all country codes. Default: us. type: string default: us Plagiarism-response-v2: type: object properties: status: type: number description: >- HTTP status code representing the result of the plagiarism scan request. scanInformation: type: object description: Some basic scan information about the request. properties: service: type: string description: Name of the service used for the request. scanTime: type: string description: Timestamp when the scan was conducted. inputType: description: >- The type of input we scan based on the input you provided. It can be `text | file | website` . type: string language: type: string description: The language of the text detected. result: type: object description: >- The result field is the main object that contains the results of the plagiarism scan. properties: score: type: number description: >- Plagiarism score indicating the percentage of plagiarized content in the scanned text. sourceCounts: type: number description: >- Number of sources identified during the scan that contain plagiarized content. textWordCounts: type: number description: Total number of words in the scanned text. totalPlagiarismWords: type: number description: Total number of words identified as plagiarized. identicalWordCounts: type: number description: >- Number of words identified as plagiarized that are identical to the source content. similarWordCounts: type: number description: >- Number of words identified as plagiarized that are similar to the source content. sources: type: array description: >- The sources field is an array which contains one or more objects, each corresponding to a different website where matching content has been found. items: type: object properties: score: type: number description: The plagiarism percentage score for this specific source. canAccess: type: boolean description: Indicates if we were able to access the source content. url: type: string description: URL of the source where plagiarism was found. title: type: string description: Title of the source document. plagiarismWords: type: number description: >- Number of words in the input text identified as plagiarized from this source found. identicalWordCounts: type: number description: >- Number of words identified as plagiarized that are identical to the source content. similarWordCounts: type: number description: >- Number of words identified as plagiarized that are similar to the source content. totalNumberOfWords: type: number description: Total number of words in the input text. author: type: string description: Author of the source document. nullable: true description: type: string description: Description or summary of the source content. nullable: true publishedDate: type: number description: Timestamp of when the source was published. nullable: true source: type: string description: Name of the source or publication. nullable: true citation: type: boolean description: Indicates if the source is cited in the input text. plagiarismFound: type: array description: >- List of plagiarism sequence found in the input text from this source. items: type: object properties: startIndex: type: number description: Starting index of the plagiarized sequence in the text. endIndex: type: number description: Ending index of the plagiarized sequence in the text. sequence: type: string description: The plagiarized text sequence. nullable: true is_excluded: type: boolean description: >- Indicates if this source should be excluded from the final results. attackDetected: type: object description: >- An object with two boolean properties indicating if the text contains zero-width spaces or homoglyph attacks. properties: zero_width_space: type: boolean description: Indicates if the text contains zero-width spaces. homoglyph_attack: type: boolean description: Indicates if the text contains homoglyph attacks. text: type: string description: The input text that was used for the plagiarism scan. similarWords: type: array description: List of similar words found in the input text. items: type: object properties: index: type: number description: Starting index of the similar word in the document. word: type: string description: The similar word. citations: type: array description: >- The citations is an array which contains one or more objects, each corresponding to a different website where the website was cited in the provided text. items: type: string indexes: type: array description: List of plagiarism sequences found in the input text. items: type: object properties: startIndex: type: number description: Starting index of the plagiarized sequence in the document. endIndex: type: number description: Ending index of the plagiarized sequence in the document. sequence: type: string description: The plagiarized text sequence. nullable: true credits_used: description: >- The credits_used field represents the number of credits consumed for processing your request. Each word that is processed by the API consumes two credits. type: integer credits_remaining: description: >- The credits_remaining field shows how many credits you have left in your account after your request has been processed. type: integer securitySchemes: bearerAuth: type: http scheme: bearer ````