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University Of Edinburgh Datashare 401 Example

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University Of Edinburgh Datashare 401 Example is an example object payload from University of Edinburgh, with 2 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

x-provenanceresponse

Example Payload

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{
  "x-provenance": {
    "method": "probed",
    "generated": "2026-08-19",
    "source": "https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/server/api/core/items?size=1",
    "note": "Anonymous request to /core/items. This 401 is the real access boundary of the deployment."
  },
  "response": {
    "timestamp": "2026-08-19T21:27:26.471+00:00",
    "status": 401,
    "error": "Unauthorized",
    "message": "Authentication is required",
    "path": "/server/api/core/items"
  }
}