# OAI-PMH Harvesting API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/rijksmuseum/oai-pmh-harvesting-api/  
**Provider:** Rijksmuseum — https://apis.io/providers/rijksmuseum/  
**Base URL:** https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/api/oai  
**Documentation:** https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/harvest/

OAI-PMH Harvesting API is one of 5 APIs that [Rijksmuseum](https://apis.io/providers/rijksmuseum/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include OAI-PMH, Harvesting, Bulk Data, Dublin Core, and Europeana. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation and code examples.

Standards-based bulk harvesting endpoint implementing the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH 2.0). Supports ListRecords, GetRecord, ListMetadataFormats, ListSets, and ListIdentifiers verbs across the Dublin Core (dc), Europeana Data Model (edm_dc), and LIDO metadata formats. Use this — not the Collection Search API — to mirror more than 600,000 object records beyond the 10,000-object search ceiling.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/object-metadata/harvest/
- **CodeExamples** — https://github.com/Q42/SimpleOAIHarvester
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rijksmuseum/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other Rijksmuseum APIs (4)

- [Rijksmuseum Collection API](https://apis.io/apis/rijksmuseum/rijksmuseum-collection-api/)
- [Rijksmuseum Images API](https://apis.io/apis/rijksmuseum/rijksmuseum-images-api/)
- [Rijksmuseum Object Details API](https://apis.io/apis/rijksmuseum/rijksmuseum-object-details-api/)
- [Rijksmuseum User Generated Content API](https://apis.io/apis/rijksmuseum/rijksmuseum-user-generated-content-api/)

## Tags

OAI-PMH, Harvesting, Bulk Data, Dublin Core, Europeana, LIDO

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