Europeana

Europeana Record API

Retrieve full metadata for a single record

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GET /{datasetId}/{localId}.json Get record #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Europeana Search Record API
  description: The Europeana REST API gives programmatic access to over 50 million cultural heritage items, including books, paintings, films, museum objects, and archival records aggregated from more than 3,500 institutions across Europe. The Search API discovers records, and the Record API returns the full metadata for a specific item.
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: Europeana Pro
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/apis
  license:
    name: EUPL 1.2
    url: https://eupl.eu/1.2/en/
  termsOfService: https://www.europeana.eu/en/rights
servers:
- url: https://api.europeana.eu/record/v2
  description: Europeana Record/Search v2 API
security:
- apiKeyAuth: []
tags:
- name: Record
  description: Retrieve full metadata for a single record
paths:
  /{datasetId}/{localId}.json:
    get:
      summary: Get record
      description: Returns the full metadata record for a Europeana object.
      operationId: getRecord
      tags:
      - Record
      parameters:
      - name: datasetId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Dataset identifier (collection prefix).
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: localId
        in: path
        required: true
        description: Local identifier within the dataset.
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: profile
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - params
          - similar
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Record response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/RecordResponse'
        '404':
          description: Record not found
components:
  schemas:
    RecordResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
        object:
          type: object
          description: Full EDM (Europeana Data Model) metadata object.
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: wskey
      description: Europeana API key. Register at https://pro.europeana.eu/pages/get-api.