Zenodo

Zenodo Records API

Record and draft management endpoints

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Operations 9

POST /api/records Create a draft record #

GET /api/records Search records #

GET /api/records/{recordId} Get a record by ID #

DELETE /api/records/{recordId}/communities Remove a record from a community #

POST /api/records/{recordId}/access/links Create an access link #

GET /api/records/{recordId}/access/links List access links #

GET /api/records/{recordId}/access/links/{linkId} Get an access link by ID #

PATCH /api/records/{recordId}/access/links/{linkId} Update an access link #

DELETE /api/records/{recordId}/access/links/{linkId} Delete an access link #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Zenodo REST Access Records 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: Records
  description: Record and draft management endpoints
paths:
  /api/records:
    post:
      summary: Create a draft record
      tags:
      - Records
      operationId: createADraftRecord
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
            example:
              access:
                record: public
                files: public
              files:
                enabled: true
              metadata:
                creators:
                - person_or_org:
                    family_name: Doe
                    given_name: John
                    identifiers:
                    - identifier: 0000-0000-0000-0000
                      scheme: orcid
                    name: Doe, John
                    type: personal
                  affiliations:
                  - name: Example Organization
                  role:
                    id: other
                publication_date: '2020-06-01'
                resource_type:
                  id: dataset
                title: Example dataset
      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 records
      tags:
      - Records
      operationId: searchRecords
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Search query using ElasticSearch query string syntax.
      - name: sort
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: 'Sort results. Options: bestmatch, newest, oldest, updated-desc, updated-asc, version, mostviewed, mostdownloaded.

          '
        example: newest
      - name: size
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Number of items per page (default 10).
      - name: page
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Page number.
      - name: allversions
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Include all versions (default False).
        example: 'True'
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '400':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/BadRequest'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
  /api/records/{recordId}:
    get:
      summary: Get a record by ID
      tags:
      - Records
      operationId: getARecordById
      parameters:
      - name: recordId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
        description: Unique record identifier
      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/records/{recordId}/communities:
    delete:
      summary: Remove a record from a community
      tags:
      - Records
      operationId: deleteRecordCommunity
      parameters:
      - name: recordId
        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/records/{recordId}/access/links:
    post:
      summary: Create an access link
      tags:
      - Records
      operationId: createAnAccessLink
      parameters:
      - name: recordId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
            example:
              permission: view
              expires_at: '2024-11-06'
      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: []
    get:
      summary: List access links
      tags:
      - Records
      operationId: listAccessLinks
      parameters:
      - name: recordId
        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/records/{recordId}/access/links/{linkId}:
    get:
      summary: Get an access link by ID
      tags:
      - Records
      operationId: getAnAccessLinkById
      parameters:
      - name: recordId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: linkId
        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: []
    patch:
      summary: Update an access link
      tags:
      - Records
      operationId: updateAnAccessLink
      parameters:
      - name: recordId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: linkId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      requestBody:
        required: true
        content:
          application/json:
            schema:
              type: object
            example:
              permission: edit
              expires_at: '2024-11-06'
      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 an access link
      tags:
      - Records
      operationId: deleteAnAccessLink
      parameters:
      - name: recordId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: linkId
        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: []
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