# Språkbanken Text Metadata API v3

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/sbx-metadata-api/  
**Provider:** University of Gothenburg — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-gothenburg/  
**Base URL:** https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/ws/metadata/v3  
**Documentation:** https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/docs/metadata

Språkbanken Text Metadata API v3 is one of 14 APIs that [University of Gothenburg](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-gothenburg/) 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 Metadata, Catalog, Research Data, Language Technology, and DOI. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and 1 JSON Schema.

The catalogue over everything Språkbanken Text publishes — corpora, lexicons, models, analyses, utilities and collections — with BibTeX citation export, a published JSON schema endpoint and its own OpenAPI served by the service itself. Institution-operated: declared servers are ws.spraakbanken.gu.se production and dev, info.contact is sb-info@svenska.gu.se. Verified live 2026-09-01: anonymous GET / returned HTTP 200 with 2,531,491 bytes of catalogue JSON, and GET /list-ids returned 1,499 resource ids. Every resource record carries a DataCite DOI under prefix 10.23695.

## Operations (17)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/` | List all resources |
| GET | `/list-ids` | List resource IDs |
| GET | `/bibtex` | Get BibTeX citation |
| GET | `/corpora` | List corpus |
| GET | `/lexicons` | List lexicon |
| GET | `/models` | List model |
| GET | `/analyses` | List analysis |
| GET | `/utilities` | List utility |
| GET | `/collections` | List collections |
| GET | `/check-id-availability` | Check resource ID availability |
| GET | `/schema` | Schema |
| GET | `/renew-cache` | Renew Cache Get |
| POST | `/renew-cache` | Renew Cache Post |
| GET | `/openapi.json` | OpenAPI schema |
| GET | `/doc` | OpenAPI schema |
| GET | `/redoc` | ReDoc API documentation |
| GET | `/docs` | Swagger UI documentation |

## Machine-readable artifacts (4)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-gothenburg/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-gothenburg-metadata-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/docs/metadata
- **Examples** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-gothenburg/refs/heads/main/examples/university-of-gothenburg-metadata-list-ids-example.json
- **JSONSchema** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-gothenburg/refs/heads/main/json-schema/university-of-gothenburg-sbx-resource.json

## Other University of Gothenburg APIs (12)

- [Korp API v8 — Corpus Concordance Search](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/korp-api/)
- [Mink API v3 — Bring Your Own Corpus](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/mink-api/)
- [Sparv API v3 — Text Annotation Pipeline](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/sparv-api/)
- [Karp API v7 — Lexical Resource Editing](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/karp-api/)
- [Karp Search API v1 — Karps sökgränssnitt](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/karp-search-api/)
- [GUPEA Repository OAI-PMH 2.0 Interface](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/gupea-oai-pmh/)
- [GUPEA DSpace 8 REST API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/gupea-dspace-rest/)
- [Shibboleth Identity Provider — SAML 2.0 Metadata](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/shibboleth-idp/)
- [Microsoft AD FS Identity Provider (SWAMID entity)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/adfs-idp/)
- [DataCite DOI Registration (client SND.SPRKB, via the Swedish National Data Service)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/datacite-registration/)
- [Crossref Membership (members 36737 and 51378)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/crossref-membership/)
- [Quality of Government (QoG) Open Data](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-gothenburg/qog-data/)

## Tags

Metadata, Catalog, Research Data, Language Technology, DOI

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