# SHARE v1 API
### **Note**: This is the documentation for the SHARE v1 Search API.
#### [Click here for SHARE V2 Docs](http://share-research.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)
With the SHARE API, you can gain full access to the free, open dataset of research (meta)data collected by SHARE. Find more extensive interactive SHARE push API documentation, as well as schema types, at [https://osf.io/share/docs](https://osf.io/share/docs)
The SHARE API has two main components:
- [Search route](https://osf.io/dajtq/wiki/SHARE%20Search/) for gathering and exploring SHARE data
- [Push Endpoint](https://osf.io/dajtq/wiki/Push%20API/) for pre-formatted new data