# ACM Digital Library Content Retrieval API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/acm/acm-content-retrieval-api/  
**Provider:** ACM Digital Library — https://apis.io/providers/acm/  
**Base URL:** https://dl.acm.org  
**Documentation:** https://dl.acm.org/

ACM Digital Library Content Retrieval API is one of 3 APIs that [ACM Digital Library](https://apis.io/providers/acm/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Articles, Content, DOI, Full Text, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and authentication docs.

Individual publications, conference papers, and journal articles in the ACM Digital Library are accessible via persistent DOI-based URLs at dl.acm.org/doi/{doi}. ACM maintains DOI registration through CrossRef and operates its own DOI resolution service. As of January 2026, all ACM-published content is open access, making bibliographic metadata and many full-text articles freely available. The endpoint supports retrieval of article abstracts, author information, affiliation data, citation counts, and full-text PDF downloads where permitted.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://libraries.acm.org/digital-library/platform-and-features
- **OpenAccess** — https://dl.acm.org/openaccess
- **Authentication** — https://libraries.acm.org/subscriptions-access/authentication

## Other ACM Digital Library APIs (2)

- [ACM Digital Library Search API](https://apis.io/apis/acm/acm-search-api/)
- [ACM Digital Library Citation Export API](https://apis.io/apis/acm/acm-citation-export-api/)

## Tags

Articles, Content, DOI, Full Text, Metadata, Open Access, Publications, Retrieval

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