Fatcat

Fatcat Webcaptures API

**Web Capture** entities represent archival snapshots of web pages (or # TAGLINE other web resources), which are usually complete manifestations of a # TAGLINE specific release entity. Web Captures also include a set of locations # TAGLINE (wayback replay instances or WARC files) where the capture can be found. # TAGLINE See the "Catalog Style Guide" section of the guide for details and # TAGLINE semantics of what should be included in specific entity fields. # TAGLINE Specifically, the # TAGLINE [Web Capture Entity Reference](https://guide.fatcat.wiki/entity_webcapture.html). # TAGLINE

GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 10

POST /editgroup/{editgroup_id}/webcapture Create webcapture #
POST /editgroup/auto/webcapture/batch Create webcapture auto batch #
GET /webcapture/{ident} Get webcapture #
PUT /editgroup/{editgroup_id}/webcapture/{ident} Update webcapture #
DELETE /editgroup/{editgroup_id}/webcapture/{ident} Delete webcapture #
GET /webcapture/rev/{rev_id} Get webcapture revision #
GET /webcapture/{ident}/history Get webcapture history #
GET /webcapture/{ident}/redirects Get webcapture redirects #
GET /webcapture/edit/{edit_id} Get webcapture edit #
DELETE /editgroup/{editgroup_id}/webcapture/edit/{edit_id} Delete webcapture edit #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://guide.fatcat.wiki/http_api.html
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RateLimits
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Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fatcat/refs/heads/main/openapi/fatcat-webcaptures-api-openapi.yml

SDKs

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GitHubRepository
https://github.com/internetarchive/fatcat

Other Resources

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Redoc
https://api.fatcat.wiki/redoc
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PricingPage
https://guide.fatcat.wiki/http_api.html
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Plans
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fatcat/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
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FinOps
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OpenAPI Specification

fatcat-webcaptures-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: fatcat Webcaptures API
  version: 0.5.0
  description: 'Fatcat is a scalable, versioned, API-oriented catalog of bibliographic

    entities and file metadata.'
  termsOfService: https://guide.fatcat.wiki/policies.html
  contact:
    name: Internet Archive Web Group
    email: webservices@archive.org
    url: https://fatcat.wiki
  x-logo:
    url: https://fatcat.wiki/static/paper_man_confused.gif
    altText: Confused Papers Man (Logo)
    backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF'
servers:
- url: https://api.fatcat.wiki/v0
tags:


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