diff --git a/buscribe-api/buscribeapi/__init.__.py b/buscribe-api/buscribeapi/__init.__.py
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diff --git a/buscribe-api/buscribeapi/__main__.py b/buscribe-api/buscribeapi/__main__.py
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diff --git a/buscribe-api/buscribeapi/buscribeapi.py b/buscribe-api/buscribeapi/buscribeapi.py
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+++ b/buscribe-api/buscribeapi/buscribeapi.py
@@ -0,0 +1,47 @@
+import flask as flask
+from common import dateutil
+from dateutil.parser import ParserError
+from flask import request
+
+app = flask.Flask('buscribe')
+
+
+@app.route('/buscribe/vtt')
+def get_vtt():
+    """Returns WebVTT subtitle file for the period between start_time and end_time."""
+    try:
+        start_time_string = request.args.get('start_time')
+        start_time = dateutil.parse(start_time_string)
+    except ParserError:
+        return "Invalid start time!", 400
+    except ValueError:
+        return "Missing start time!", 400
+
+    try:
+        end_time_string = request.args.get('end_time')
+        end_time = dateutil.parse(end_time_string)
+    except ParserError:
+        return "Invalid end time!", 400
+    except ValueError:
+        return "Missing end time!", 400
+
+
+@app.route('/buscribe/json')
+def get_json():
+    """Searches the line database for *query*, with optional start_time and end_time boundaries.
+
+    Search is done using PostgreSQL websearch_to_tsquery() (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/13/functions-textsearch.html)"""
+    start_time_string = request.args.get('start_time')
+    try:
+        start_time = dateutil.parse(start_time_string)
+    except ParserError:
+        return "Invalid start time!", 400
+
+    end_time_string = request.args.get('end_time', default=None)
+    try:
+        end_time = dateutil.parse(end_time_string)
+    except ParserError:
+        return "Invalid end time!", 400
+
+    # I think websearch_to_tsquery() sanitizes its own input.
+    query = request.args.get('end_time', default=None)
diff --git a/buscribe-api/buscribeapi/main.py b/buscribe-api/buscribeapi/main.py
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diff --git a/buscribe-api/setup.py b/buscribe-api/setup.py
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+++ b/buscribe-api/setup.py
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+from setuptools import setup, find_packages
+
+setup(
+    name = "wubloader-buscribe-api",
+    version = "0.0.0",
+    packages = find_packages(),
+    install_requires = [
+        "argh",
+        "psycopg2",
+        "greenlet==0.4.16",
+        "psycogreen",
+        "wubloader-common",
+        "python-dateutil",
+        "flask"
+    ],
+)
diff --git a/buscribe_data.sql b/buscribe_data.sql
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--- a/buscribe_data.sql
+++ b/buscribe_data.sql
@@ -8,4 +8,7 @@ CREATE TABLE buscribe_transcriptions
     transcription_line text                     NOT NULL,
     line_speaker       float[128],
     transcription_json jsonb                    NOT NULL
-);
\ No newline at end of file
+);
+
+CREATE INDEX buscribe_transcriptions_idx ON buscribe_transcriptions USING
+    GIN (to_tsvector('english', transcription_line));
\ No newline at end of file