# PUL Bibliographic Data Web Service (Bibdata)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/princeton/bibdata/  
**Provider:** Princeton University — https://apis.io/providers/princeton/  
**Base URL:** https://bibdata.princeton.edu  
**Documentation:** https://bibdata.princeton.edu/

PUL Bibliographic Data Web Service (Bibdata) is one of 14 APIs that [Princeton University](https://apis.io/providers/princeton/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Library, Metadata, JSON, and Open Data. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and a GitHub repository.

Princeton University Library's own bibliographic data service at bibdata.princeton.edu. A Rails application (pulibrary/bibdata) that reads from Alma and re-serves bibliographic records, holdings, delivery and holding locations, libraries and events as JSON, plus periodic full dumps used to rebuild the Solr indexes behind the catalog. Location endpoints such as /locations/libraries.json are anonymously readable; staff operations sit behind Princeton CAS. The service prints its own deployed commit, deploy date and live index timestamps on its home page — more operational transparency than most of this cohort offers.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://github.com/pulibrary/bibdata
- **GitHubRepository** — https://github.com/pulibrary/bibdata
- **Website** — https://bibdata.princeton.edu/

## Other Princeton University APIs (12)

- [Princeton University Library Allsearch API](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/allsearch-api/)
- [Princeton University Art Museum API](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/art-museum-api/)
- [Princeton OIT API Gateway](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/oit-api-gateway/)
- [Princeton University Library Catalog (Orangelight)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/catalog/)
- [Figgy Digital Repository — OAI-PMH and IIIF](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/figgy-oai/)
- [Princeton Data Commons — Discovery](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/data-commons/)
- [DataSpace Institutional Repository — OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/dataspace-oai/)
- [Princeton University Library Finding Aids (PULFAlight)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/finding-aids/)
- [Princeton University Library Maps and Geospatial Data (PUL Map)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/maps/)
- [Digital PUL (DPUL)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/digital-pul/)
- [Princeton Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/shibboleth-idp/)
- [Ex Libris Alma / Primo VE — Princeton tenancy (01PRI_INST)](https://apis.io/apis/princeton/exlibris-tenancy/)

## Tags

Library, Metadata, JSON, Open Data

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