WorldCat

WorldCat Search Bibliographic Resources API

The Search Bibliographic Resources API from WorldCat — 4 operation(s) for search bibliographic resources.

GitHub OpenAPI
Business capability
Library & Information Resource Operations BC-4790.40

Operations 4

GET /worldcat/search/brief-bibs Search Brief Bibliographic Resources #
GET /worldcat/search/brief-bibs/{oclcNumber} Retrieve specific Brief Bibliographic Resource #
GET /worldcat/search/brief-bibs/{oclcNumber}/other-editions Retrieve Other Editions related to a particular Bibliographic Resource #
GET /worldcat/search/classification-bibs/{oclcNumber} Retrieve classification reccomendations for an oclcNumber #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://www.oclc.org/developer/api/oclc-apis/worldcat-search-api.en.html
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Documentation
https://www.oclc.org/developer/api/oclc-apis/worldcat-metadata-api.en.html
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Documentation
https://www.oclc.org/developer/api/oclc-apis/worldcat-entities-data.en.html

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/worldcat/refs/heads/main/openapi/worldcat-search-bibliographic-resources-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

worldcat-search-bibliographic-resources-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  description: WorldCat Metadata API
  version: 2.0.0
  title: WorldCat Metadata Search Bibliographic Resources API
servers:
- url: https://metadata.api.oclc.org
  description: PROD
security:
- worldcat_metadata_auth:
  - WorldCatMetadataAPI
tags:


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