FreiDok plus JSON API

Read-only JSON API for the FreiDok plus institutional repository and university bibliography, returning publication and research-data metadata records. Supports pagination via startitem/maxitems parameters (max 100 items per request). Confirmed live returning ~265k publication records.

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aid: university-of-freiburg:freidok-json
name: FreiDok plus JSON API
description: Read-only JSON API for the FreiDok plus institutional repository and university bibliography,
  returning publication and research-data metadata records. Supports pagination via startitem/maxitems
  parameters (max 100 items per request). Confirmed live returning ~265k publication records.
humanURL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/_/site/about
baseURL: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/jsonApi/v1/
tags:
- Research
- Repository
- Bibliography
- Open Data
- JSON
properties:
- type: Documentation
  url: https://freidok.uni-freiburg.de/_/site/about
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://pypi.org/project/freidok-cli/