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Emory Digital Library Program Search API (Blacklight JSON:API)

The Emory Libraries Digital Library Program discovery layer (dlp-lux) exposes its Blacklight search index as a JSON:API document at /catalog.json. Query, paginate and read digital collection records — title, creator, dates, rights — without a key. This is Emory Libraries' own Rails/Blacklight code running on Emory infrastructure, and it is the one live, unauthenticated, machine-readable data API the institution currently operates.

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https://digital.library.emory.edu/

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https://github.com/emory-libraries

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: emory:dlp-lux-search
name: Emory Digital Library Program Search API (Blacklight JSON:API)
description: The Emory Libraries Digital Library Program discovery layer (dlp-lux) exposes its Blacklight
  search index as a JSON:API document at /catalog.json. Query, paginate and read digital collection records
  — title, creator, dates, rights — without a key. This is Emory Libraries' own Rails/Blacklight code
  running on Emory infrastructure, and it is the one live, unauthenticated, machine-readable data API
  the institution currently operates.
humanURL: https://digital.library.emory.edu/
baseURL: https://digital.library.emory.edu/catalog.json
x-operator: institution
x-operator-basis: 'Host is on Emory''s registrable domain (CNAME to an Emory-named AWS load balancer,
  dlp-prod-nb-*.elb.us-east-1.amazonaws.com — infrastructure, not a SaaS tenancy). The application is
  Emory Libraries'' own open-source code in github.com/emory-libraries. Probed 2026-09-01: HTTP 200, application/json,
  JSON:API envelope, 267 results for q=test.'
tags:
- Libraries
- Digital Repository
- Search
- Blacklight
- JSON:API
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://digital.library.emory.edu/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/emory-libraries