Peking University Communities API
Top-level organisational units of the repository (schools, departments, patent and thesis collections).
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OpenAPI Specification
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
title: Peking University Institutional Repository REST Communities…
description: Read-only HTTP/JSON API for the Institutional Repository of Peking University (北京大学机构知识库), operated by the PKU Library at ir.pku.edu.cn on Peking University's own domain.
version: '1.0'
contact:
name: PKU Institutional Repository
email: pkuir@lib.pku.edu.cn
url: https://ir.pku.edu.cn/
x-operator: institution
x-operator-evidence: Host ir.pku.edu.cn is under Peking University's own registrable domain pku.edu.cn; OAI-PMH Identify names the repository "Institutional Repository of Peking University" with adminEmail pkuir@lib.pku.edu.cn.
x-generated: '2026-08-19'
x-method: probed
x-source: https://ir.pku.edu.cn/rest/status
servers:
- url: https://ir.pku.edu.cn/rest
description: Production repository REST API (no authentication required for read paths)
tags:
- name: Communities
description: Top-level organisational units of the repository (schools, departments, patent and thesis collections).
paths:
/communities:
get:
tags:
- Communities
summary: List communities
operationId: listCommunities
parameters:
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Limit'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Offset'
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Expand'
responses:
'200':
description: Array of communities
content:
application/json:
schema:
type: array
items:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Community'
examples:
live:
externalValue: ../examples/peking-ir-rest-communities-response.json
/communities/{communityId}:
get:
tags:
- Communities
summary: Get one community
operationId: getCommunity
parameters:
- name: communityId
in: path
required: true
schema:
type: integer
example: 20
- $ref: '#/components/parameters/Expand'
responses:
'200':
description: Community
content:
application/json:
schema:
$ref: '#/components/schemas/Community'
components:
parameters:
Expand:
name: expand
in: query
required: false
description: Comma-separated list of relations to inline. Every response advertises its own legal values in the `expand` array it returns.
schema:
type: string
example: metadata,bitstreams
Offset:
name: offset
in: query
required: false
description: Number of records to skip.
schema:
type: integer
default: 0
Limit:
name: limit
in: query
required: false
description: Maximum number of records to return.
schema:
type: integer
default: 100
schemas:
Community:
type: object
properties:
id:
type: integer
name:
type: string
handle:
type: string
example: 20.500.11897/413921
type:
type: string
const: community
link:
type: string
expand:
type: array
items:
type: string
logo:
type:
- string
- 'null'
parentCommunity:
type:
- object
- 'null'
copyrightText:
type: string
introductoryText:
type: string
shortDescription:
type: string
sidebarText:
type: string
countItems:
type: integer
subcommunities:
type: array
items:
type: object
collections:
type: array
items:
type: object