Crossref Licenses API

openapi: 3.0.1
info:
  title: Crossref Agency Licenses API
  description: The Crossref REST API is one of a variety of tools and APIs that allow anybody to search and reuse our members' metadata in sophisticated ways.
  contact:
    name: Crossref
    url: https://crossref.org
    email: support@crossref.org
  version: 3.32.0
servers:
- url: /
tags:
- name: Licenses
  description: Endpoints that expose license related data
paths:
  /licenses:
    get:
      tags:
      - Licenses
      description: 'Returns a list of licenses.

        ## Querying


        This endpoint accepts `query` parameter, which allows for free text querying. The result contains aggregated licenses from the works that match given query.


        ##


        For example, this request:


        ##


        ```

        /licenses?query=richard+feynman

        ```


        ##


        will first select works matching `richard+feynman`, and aggregate their licenses.


        ## Pagination with offsets


        Offsets are an easy way to iterate over results sets up to 10,000 items. This limit applies to the sum of values of parameters `offset` + `rows`.


        ##


        The number of items returned in a single response is controlled by `rows` parameter (default is 20, and maximum is 1,000). To limit results to 5, for example, you could do the following:


        ##


        ```

        /works?query=allen+renear&rows=5

        ```


        ##


        `offset` parameter can be used to retrieve items starting from a specific index of the result list. For example, to select the second set of 5 results (i.e. results 6 through 10), you would do the following:


        ##


        ```

        /works?query=allen+renear&rows=5&offset=5

        ```


        ##


        ## Deep paging


        Deep paging using cursors can be used to iterate over large result sets, without any limits on their size.


        ##


        To use deep paging make a query as normal, but include the `cursor` parameter with a value of `*`, for example:


        ##


        ```

        /members/311/works?filter=type:journal-article&cursor=*

        ```


        ##


        A `next-cursor` field will be provided in the JSON response. To get the next page of results, pass the value of `next-cursor` as the cursor parameter (remember to URL-encode). For example:


        ##


        ```

        /members/311/works?filter=type:journal-article&cursor=<value of next-cursor parameter>

        ```


        ##


        Clients should check the number of returned items. If the number of returned items is equal to the number of expected rows then the end of the result set has been reached. Using next-cursor beyond this point will result in responses with an empty items list. Cursors expire after 5 minutes if they are not used.


        ##

        '
      parameters:
      - name: query
        in: query
        description: Exposes the ability to free text query certain fields
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: cursor
        in: query
        description: Exposes the ability to deep page through large result sets, where offset would cause performance problems
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: rows
        in: query
        description: The number of rows per page
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      - name: mailto
        in: query
        description: The email address to identify yourself and be in the "polite pool"
        schema:
          pattern: ^[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,6}$
          type: string
      - name: offset
        in: query
        description: The number of rows to skip before returning
        schema:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      responses:
        '200':
          description: A list of licenses
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/LicensesMessage'
components:
  schemas:
    Licenses:
      required:
      - items
      - total-results
      type: object
      properties:
        total-results:
          type: integer
          format: int64
        items:
          type: array
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/License'
      additionalProperties: false
    LicensesMessage:
      required:
      - message
      - message-type
      - message-version
      - status
      type: object
      properties:
        status:
          type: string
        message-type:
          pattern: license-list
          type: string
        message-version:
          type: string
        message:
          $ref: '#/components/schemas/Licenses'
      additionalProperties: false
    License:
      required:
      - URL
      - work-count
      type: object
      properties:
        URL:
          type: string
        work-count:
          type: integer
          format: int64
      additionalProperties: false
x-original-swagger-version: '2.0'