Zenodo

Zenodo Users API

User management endpoints

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Operations 5

GET /api/users Search users #

GET /api/users/{userId} Get user by ID #

GET /api/users/{userId}/avatar.svg Get user avatar #

GET /api/user/communities Search user's communities #

GET /api/user/records Get all draft records for current user #

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OpenAPI Specification

openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Zenodo REST Access Users 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: Users
  description: User management endpoints
paths:
  /api/users:
    get:
      summary: Search users
      tags:
      - Users
      operationId: searchUsers
      parameters: []
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '403':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Forbidden'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
  /api/users/{userId}:
    get:
      summary: Get user by ID
      tags:
      - Users
      operationId: getUserById
      parameters:
      - name: userId
        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/users/{userId}/avatar.svg:
    get:
      summary: Get user avatar
      tags:
      - Users
      operationId: getUserAvatar
      parameters:
      - name: userId
        in: path
        required: true
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '404':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
  /api/user/communities:
    get:
      summary: Search user's communities
      tags:
      - Users
      operationId: searchUserCommunities
      parameters:
      - name: page
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: size
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      - name: sort
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
  /api/user/records:
    get:
      summary: Get all draft records for current user
      tags:
      - Users
      operationId: getUserRecords
      parameters:
      - name: q
        in: query
        required: false
        schema:
          type: string
        example: is_published:false
      responses:
        '200':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Success'
        '401':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/Unauthorized'
        '500':
          $ref: '#/components/responses/InternalServerError'
      security:
      - BearerAuth: []
components:
  responses:
    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
  securitySchemes:
    BearerAuth:
      type: http
      scheme: bearer
      description: Personal access token issued from the Zenodo account settings