# IRIS Repository Discover API (DSpace Discovery)

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/university-of-lausanne/university-of-lausanne-discover-api/  
**Provider:** University of Lausanne — https://apis.io/providers/university-of-lausanne/  
**Base URL:** https://api.unil.ch/iris/server/api  
**Documentation:** https://iris.unil.ch

IRIS Repository Discover API (DSpace Discovery) is one of 9 APIs that [University of Lausanne](https://apis.io/providers/university-of-lausanne/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Discover. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

DSpace Discovery search across everything indexed in IRIS. Confirmed anonymous 200 on 2026-09-01, reporting a last page of 253,798 at size=1, i.e. 253,799 indexed objects. This matters because /core/items and /core/bitstreams both answer 401 to an anonymous client, so Discovery is the only callable route to item-level metadata over REST.

## Operations (1)

| Method | Path | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| GET | `/discover/search/objects` | Search indexed objects |

## Machine-readable artifacts (2)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/university-of-lausanne/refs/heads/main/openapi/university-of-lausanne-discover-api-openapi.yml
- **Documentation** — https://api.unil.ch/iris/server/api

## Other University of Lausanne APIs (8)

- [SPICA Atlas Projects.json API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-lausanne/university-of-lausanne-projects-json-api/)
- [SPICA Atlas Projects API](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-lausanne/university-of-lausanne-projects-api/)
- [IRIS Repository Core API (DSpace REST)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-lausanne/university-of-lausanne-core-api/)
- [IRIS Repository API root (DSpace REST)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-lausanne/university-of-lausanne-iris-repository-dspace-rest-api-api/)
- [IRIS OAI-PMH](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-lausanne/university-of-lausanne-oai-pmh-api/)
- [UNIL Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0 metadata)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-lausanne/unil-shibboleth-idp/)
- [DataCite repository registration (UNIL data service)](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-lausanne/datacite-repository-registration/)
- [ROR organisation registration](https://apis.io/apis/university-of-lausanne/ror-registration/)

## Tags

Discover

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