King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Oai Pmh API

OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol requests. All six verbs verified live 2026-08-30.

Documentation GitHub OpenAPI

Operations 1

GET /oai2 Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request #

Work with this as data

Every API here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for apis

7 MCP tools reach this

find_apisBrowse and filter every API in the catalog.
get_api_artifactsOne API's artifacts, grouped by type.
get_openapiThe primary OpenAPI for this API.
find_similar_apisAPIs that look like this one.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page

This API

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/apis/kfupm-oai-pmh-api"

All apis

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/apis?limit=25"

Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.

OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: KFUPM ePrints Repository Interface Oai Pmh API
  summary: Institution-operated OAI-PMH 2.0 harvesting interface for the KFUPM ePrints repository.
  description: KFUPM ePrints (https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa) is King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals' institutional repository of theses, dissertations and research output, running EPrints 3.4.1 on the university's own host.
  version: '2.0'
  contact:
    name: KFUPM ePrints Administrator
    email: eprints-system@kfupm.edu.sa
    url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/
  license:
    name: No metadata policy declared by the repository
    identifier: NONE
servers:
- url: https://eprints.kfupm.edu.sa/cgi
  description: KFUPM ePrints (EPrints 3.4.1) — institution-operated, no authentication
tags:
- name: oai pmh
  description: OAI-PMH 2.0 protocol requests. All six verbs verified live 2026-08-30.
paths:
  /oai2:
    get:
      tags:
      - oai pmh
      operationId: oaiRequest
      summary: Issue an OAI-PMH 2.0 request
      description: Single OAI-PMH endpoint. The `verb` parameter selects the operation. Responses are `text/xml` in the http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/ namespace. Protocol-level failures are returned as HTTP 200 with an element, not as an HTTP error status — observed with verb=Bogus returning badVerb and badArgument.
      parameters:
      - name: verb
        in: query
        required: true
        description: OAI-PMH verb. All six values verified against the live endpoint.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - Identify
          - ListMetadataFormats
          - ListSets
          - ListIdentifiers
          - ListRecords
          - GetRecord
      - name: metadataPrefix
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Metadata format. Required for ListIdentifiers, ListRecords and GetRecord. Formats observed live via ListMetadataFormats.
        schema:
          type: string
          enum:
          - didl
          - mets
          - oai_bibl
          - oai_dc
          - rdf
          - uketd_dc
      - name: identifier
        in: query
        required: false
        description: OAI identifier of a single record. Required for GetRecord.
        schema:
          type: string
          examples:
          - oai:eprints.kfupm.edu.sa:144629
      - name: set
        in: query
        required: false
        description: setSpec from ListSets. KFUPM encodes set specs as hex (e.g. 7374617475733D707562 for "Status = Published").
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: from
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Lower bound datestamp. Granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: until
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Upper bound datestamp. Granularity YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ssZ.
        schema:
          type: string
          format: date-time
      - name: resumptionToken
        in: query
        required: false
        description: Flow-control token returned with an incomplete list response.
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          description: OAI-PMH response document. Carries either the requested payload or an <error code="..."> element; both are returned with HTTP 200.
          content:
            text/xml:
              schema:
                type: string
                contentMediaType: text/xml

King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals Oai Pmh API

Operations 1

Documentation

Specifications

Schemas & Data

Other Resources