# Brown Digital Repository (BDR) API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/brown/bdr-api/  
**Provider:** Brown University — https://apis.io/providers/brown/  
**Base URL:** https://repository.library.brown.edu/api/search/  
**Documentation:** https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/api-docs/

Brown Digital Repository (BDR) API is one of 3 APIs that [Brown University](https://apis.io/providers/brown/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Digital Repository, Library, Search, Research Data, and JSON. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

Public REST/search API for the Brown Digital Repository, the library's platform for gathering, indexing, storing, preserving, and making available digital assets from scholarly, instructional, research, and administrative activity at Brown. The search endpoint returns JSON and is publicly reachable.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/api-docs/
- **GitHub** — https://github.com/Brown-University-Library
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brown/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Brown University APIs (2)

- [Brown Digital Repository IIIF Service](https://apis.io/apis/brown/iiif/)
- [Brown Shibboleth Single Sign-On (SAML)](https://apis.io/apis/brown/sso/)

## Tags

Digital Repository, Library, Search, Research Data, JSON

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/brown/bdr-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/brown/.