Loughborough University

Loughborough University Library Catalogue API (Koha)

The REST API of Loughborough University Library's Koha integrated library system, served from the university's own koha.lboro.ac.uk host. The live description at /api/v1/ is a Swagger 2.0 document declaring host koha.lboro.ac.uk and basePath /api/v1 across 249 paths and 79 tags, nineteen of them under /public. GET /api/v1/public/libraries returns Loughborough's own branch records — London Library at Here East, the Inter-Library Loan Service, library@lboro.ac.uk — with no credential at all. Staff paths require authentication (401). Koha is community open-source software and the contract's info.contact is the Koha Development Team, so no copy of the specification is stored under Loughborough's slug; the deployment, the host and the data are Loughborough's and that is what is credited here. The instance is under managed hosting by PTFS Europe (koha.lboro.ac.uk CNAMEs to lboro.koha.servers.ptfse.net). An Anubis bot challenge fronts the HTML paths on this host; the JSON API paths pass through it.

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APIReference
https://koha.lboro.ac.uk/api/v1/.html
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Documentation
https://koha.lboro.ac.uk/api/v1/

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x-example
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/loughborough/refs/heads/main/examples/loughborough-koha-public-libraries-example.json
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APIsJSON
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/loughborough/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: loughborough:library-catalogue-api
name: Loughborough University Library Catalogue API (Koha)
x-operator: tenant
description: The REST API of Loughborough University Library's Koha integrated library system, served
  from the university's own koha.lboro.ac.uk host. The live description at /api/v1/ is a Swagger 2.0 document
  declaring host koha.lboro.ac.uk and basePath /api/v1 across 249 paths and 79 tags, nineteen of them
  under /public. GET /api/v1/public/libraries returns Loughborough's own branch records — London Library
  at Here East, the Inter-Library Loan Service, library@lboro.ac.uk — with no credential at all. Staff
  paths require authentication (401). Koha is community open-source software and the contract's info.contact
  is the Koha Development Team, so no copy of the specification is stored under Loughborough's slug; the
  deployment, the host and the data are Loughborough's and that is what is credited here. The instance
  is under managed hosting by PTFS Europe (koha.lboro.ac.uk CNAMEs to lboro.koha.servers.ptfse.net). An
  Anubis bot challenge fronts the HTML paths on this host; the JSON API paths pass through it.
humanURL: https://www.lboro.ac.uk/services/library/search/
baseURL: https://koha.lboro.ac.uk/api/v1/
tags:
- Library
- Library Catalog
- Bibliographic
- Open Access
properties:
- type: APIReference
  url: https://koha.lboro.ac.uk/api/v1/.html
- type: Documentation
  url: https://koha.lboro.ac.uk/api/v1/
- type: x-example
  url: examples/loughborough-koha-public-libraries-example.json