Harvard University

Perma.cc API (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)

Perma.cc is the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab's link-rot service, creating permanent citable archives of web pages, and it exposes a public REST API at api.perma.cc. Ownership is confirmed - the codebase is github.com/harvard-lil/perma and the repo declares perma.cc as its homepage. HONEST LIMIT: every probe of api.perma.cc and perma.cc from this run hit a Cloudflare interstitial (403), so the surface is recorded as live-but-unreadable to us. No response shape, no auth scheme and no error contract was verified, and none is claimed here.

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: harvard:perma
name: Perma.cc API (Harvard Library Innovation Lab)
x-operator: institution
description: 'Perma.cc is the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab''s link-rot service, creating
  permanent citable archives of web pages, and it exposes a public REST API at api.perma.cc. Ownership
  is confirmed - the codebase is github.com/harvard-lil/perma and the repo declares perma.cc as its homepage.
  HONEST LIMIT: every probe of api.perma.cc and perma.cc from this run hit a Cloudflare interstitial (403),
  so the surface is recorded as live-but-unreadable to us. No response shape, no auth scheme and no error
  contract was verified, and none is claimed here.'
humanURL: https://perma.cc/
baseURL: https://api.perma.cc/v1
tags:
- Web Archiving
- Legal
- Citation
- Library
properties:
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/harvard-lil/perma