Zenodo

Zenodo Communities API

Community management endpoints

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Operations 7

POST /api/communities Create a community #

GET /api/communities Search communities #

GET /api/communities/{communityId} Get a community #

PUT /api/communities/{communityId} Update a community #

DELETE /api/communities/{communityId} Delete a community #

GET /api/communities/{communityId}/records Get records in a community #

POST /api/communities/{communityId}/rename Rename a community #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Zenodo REST Access Communities API
  description: 'REST API for Zenodo, the free open research data repository operated by CERN and built on InvenioRDM. Provides programmatic access to deposits (draft records), published records, file management, communities, vocabularies, OAI-PMH sets, requests, users, groups, statistics, and audit logs. Every published record receives a DOI for persistent citation. Authenticate with a personal access token passed as a Bearer token.

    '
  version: 12.0.0
  contact:
    name: Zenodo Developer Documentation
    url: https://developers.zenodo.org/
  license:
    name: MIT License
    url: https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT
  x-upstream-spec: https://github.com/inveniosoftware/invenio-openapi
servers:
- url: https://zenodo.org
  description: Zenodo production instance
- url: https://sandbox.zenodo.org
  description: Zenodo sandbox (testing)
security:
- BearerAuth: []
tags:
- name: Communities
  description: Community management endpoints
paths:
  /api/communities:
    post:
      summary: Create a community
      tags:
      - Communities
      operationId: createACommunity
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
            example:
              access:
                visibility: public
                member_policy: open
                record_policy: open
              slug: my-community
              metadata:
                title: My Community
                description: A research community
                type:
                  id: project
                website: https://example.org/
      responses:
        '201':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Created'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
    get:
      summary: Search communities
      tags:
      - Communities
      operationId: searchCommunities
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: sort
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        example: updated-asc
      - name: size
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: page
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: type
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: 'Community type: organization, event, topic, project'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
  /api/communities/{communityId}:
    get:
      summary: Get a community
      tags:
      - Communities
      operationId: getACommunity
      parameters:
      - name: communityId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
    put:
      summary: Update a community
      tags:
      - Communities
      operationId: updateACommunity
      parameters:
      - name: communityId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
    delete:
      summary: Delete a community
      tags:
      - Communities
      operationId: deleteCommunity
      parameters:
      - name: communityId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
  /api/communities/{communityId}/records:
    get:
      summary: Get records in a community
      tags:
      - Communities
      operationId: getCommunityRecords
      parameters:
      - name: communityId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
  /api/communities/{communityId}/rename:
    post:
      summary: Rename a community
      tags:
      - Communities
      operationId: renameACommunity
      parameters:
      - name: communityId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
            example:
              slug: new-slug
      responses:
        '201':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Created'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
components:
  responses:
    BadRequest:
      description: Bad request - invalid input parameters
    NotFound:
      description: Not found - resource does not exist
    Forbidden:
      description: Forbidden - insufficient permissions
    Success:
      description: Successful response
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
    Unauthorized:
      description: Unauthorized - authentication required
    InternalServerError:
      description: Internal server error
    Created:
      description: Resource created successfully
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Personal access token issued from the Zenodo account settings