# UF Libraries Patron API **Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-florida/libraries-patron-api/ **Provider:** University of Florida — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-florida/ **Base URL:** https://api.patron.uflib.ufl.edu **Documentation:** https://ufdc.ufl.edu/ UF Libraries Patron API is one of 9 APIs that [University of Florida](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-florida/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition. Tagged areas include Digital Collections, Library, Research Data, OAI-PMH, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, and 1 JSON Schema. The public read API of the George A. Smathers Libraries, backing the UF Digital Collections, the Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Florida Digital Newspaper Library. Seventeen resources over a corpus of more than a million items: exact and faceted search, OCR full-text page search, bounding-box and radius geospatial search, per-item MODS citation and downloads, serial hierarchy, collection and media-type vocabularies with live counts, public view statistics, three RSS feeds, and a conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 repository at /oai serving Dublin Core and MODS 3.7. It is self-documenting — the root returns a machine-readable resource index and each resource returns worked example URLs — which is how this contract was derived, since UF publishes no OpenAPI for it. Institution-operated: api.patron.uflib.ufl.edu resolves into UFNET with no vendor CNAME, and no repository product (Figshare, DSpace, EPrints, Dataverse, Pure) appears anywhere in its payloads. ## Operations (21) | Method | Path | Summary | |---|---|---| | GET | `/` | Machine-readable index of every resource | | GET | `/exactsearch` | Search items across the digital collections | | GET | `/pagetext` | Full-text search inside digitised page images | | GET | `/mapsearch` | Geospatial search over georeferenced items | | GET | `/collections` | List collections, or one collection | | GET | `/types` | Media types with live item counts | | GET | `/publishers` | Publishers with live item counts | | GET | `/serialtitles` | Search serial titles | | GET | `/serialhierarchy` | Volume/issue hierarchy for one serial | | GET | `/all_vids_in_bibid` | Enumerate every volume under one bibliographic record | | GET | `/{bibid}/{vid}/citation` | Full descriptive metadata for one item | | GET | `/{bibid}/{vid}/downloads` | Downloadable renditions for one item | | GET | `/recent_additions` | Most recently published items | | GET | `/fdnl_titles_list` | Florida Digital Newspaper Library title list | | GET | `/stats` | Public view statistics | | GET | `/oai` | OAI-PMH 2.0 repository interface | | GET | `/oai_by_title` | OAI-PMH 2.0 interface set-partitioned by title | | GET | `/rss` | Index of the available RSS feeds | | GET | `/rss_ufdc` | RSS feed for UF Digital Collections | | GET | `/rss_dloc` | RSS feed for the Digital Library of the Caribbean | | GET | `/rss_fdnl` | RSS feed for the Florida Digital Newspaper Library | ## Machine-readable artifacts (12) - **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-florida-libraries-patron-api-openapi.yml - **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-florida-libraries-patron-api-schema.json - **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-florida-libraries-root-index.json - **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-florida-libraries-exactsearch-response.json - **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-florida-ufdc-oai-identify.xml - **Website** — https://ufdc.ufl.edu/ - **Documentation** — https://lts.uflib.ufl.edu/supported-systems/uf-digital-collections/ - **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/authentication/university-of-florida-authentication.yml - **Errors** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/errors/university-of-florida-errors.yml - **Rules** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/rules/university-of-florida-rules.yml - **Vocabulary** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/university-of-florida-vocabulary.yml - **Conformance** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-florida/refs/heads/main/conformance/university-of-florida-conformance.yml ## Other University of Florida APIs (8) - [UF Schedule of Courses (SOC) API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-florida/soc-schedule/) - [UF Shibboleth Identity Provider (InCommon / eduGAIN)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-florida/identity-federation/) - [UF Campus Map JSON Data](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-florida/campus-map/) - [Crossref Membership — UF George A. Smathers Libraries](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-florida/crossref-membership/) - [ROR Registration — University of Florida](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-florida/ror/) - [UF Canvas LMS Tenancy](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-florida/canvas-lms/) - [UF Academic Catalog (CourseLeaf tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-florida/course-catalog-courseleaf/) - [UF Events Calendar (LiveWhale tenancy)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-florida/events-calendar-livewhale/) ## Tags Digital Collections, Library, Research Data, OAI-PMH, Metadata, Search, Open Data --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-florida/libraries-patron-api/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/university-of-florida/.