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DVIDS API

The Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) API provides programmatic access to over 1.8 million U.S. military news, photos, video, audio, publications, and unit assets. The API is implemented as JSON over HTTP and integration is possible from any language that can make an HTTP request and parse JSON responses.

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DVIDS API

JSON-over-HTTP API for searching and retrieving DVIDS news, video, image, audio, publication, webcast, graphics, and unit records.

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opencollection: 1.0.0
info:
  name: DVIDS API
  version: v2
request:
  auth:
    type: apikey
    key: api_key
    value: '{{api_key}}'
    placement: query
items:
- info:
    name: Search
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Search assets
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.dvidshub.net/search
      params:
      - name: api_key
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: q
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: branch
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: type
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: category
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: categories_exclude
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: country
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: state
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: city
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: unit_name
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: unit
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: unit_id
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: credit
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: from_date
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: to_date
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: from_publishdate
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: to_publishdate
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: timestamp
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: from_duration
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: to_duration
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: aspect_ratio
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: hd
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: has_image
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: has_captions
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: max_results
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: page
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: sort
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: sortdir
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: format
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: fields
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: thumb_width
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: thumb_height
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: thumb_quality
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Full text search across DVIDS news, video, image, audio, publications, webcasts, and graphics.
- info:
    name: Asset
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Get asset
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.dvidshub.net/asset
      params:
      - name: api_key
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: id
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: fields
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: prettyprint
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: thumb_width
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: thumb_height
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: thumb_quality
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: include_related_media
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Retrieve extended information about a specific media asset.
  - info:
      name: Get related assets
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.dvidshub.net/asset/related
      params:
      - name: api_key
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: id
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: branch
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: category
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: type
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: country
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: state
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: city
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: unit_name
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: credit
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: from_date
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: to_date
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: aspect_ratio
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: hd
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: max_results
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: page
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Retrieve media assets related to a specified asset.
- info:
    name: Unit
    type: folder
  items:
  - info:
      name: Search units
      type: http
    http:
      method: GET
      url: https://api.dvidshub.net/unit/search
      params:
      - name: api_key
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: unit_id
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: branch
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: unit_abbrev
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: unit_name
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: max_results
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: sortdir
        value: ''
        type: query
      - name: page
        value: ''
        type: query
    docs: Search the DVIDS unit directory by name, abbreviation, branch, or ID.
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