Zenodo

Zenodo OAI-PMH API

Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting endpoint that allows bulk harvesting of Zenodo metadata in formats including oai_dc, marcxml, and oai_datacite4. Supports selective harvesting by community.

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GET /api/oaipmh/formats Get OAI-PMH metadata formats #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Zenodo REST OAI PMH 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: oai pmh
  description: OAI-PMH protocol endpoints
paths:
  /api/oaipmh/formats:
    get:
      summary: Get OAI-PMH metadata formats
      tags:
      - oai pmh
      operationId: getOaipmhMetadataFormats
      parameters: []
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
components:
  responses:
    InternalServerError:
      description: Internal server error
    Success:
      description: Successful response
      content:
        application/json:
          schema:
            type: object
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Personal access token issued from the Zenodo account settings