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Trove

Trove is the National Library of Australia's discovery service. It gives a single point of entry to more than 14 billion digital items from hundreds of Australian libraries, museums, galleries, media, government and community partners. Its public API (version 3) returns machine-readable search results and metadata records for digitised newspaper and gazette articles, magazines and newsletters, lists, works (books, images, maps, music, sound, video, archives, journal articles), people and organisations, newspaper titles and contributors. A free Trove account and an API key are required.

Trove publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Contributor API, List API, Newspaper API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include News, Public APIs, Library, Cultural Heritage, and Digitised Newspapers.

The Trove catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Trove’s developer surface includes changelog, authentication, support, engineering blog, and 25 more developer resources.

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50.1/100 developing ▲ 44.9 Agent 45/100 agent ready Front door AI 2/6 trace Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →
2 published contracts
NewsPublic APIsLibraryCultural HeritageDigitised NewspapersArchivesOpen DataAustraliaSearch

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0
Composite quality — 50.1/100 · developing
Contract Quality 12.5 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 10.0 / 17
Access Clarity 5.8 / 17
Operational Transparency 4.9 / 11
Contract Governance 2.2 / 10
Discoverability 6.2 / 9
Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15
Agent readiness — 45/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 6 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5
Registration Without a Human 6 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Pagination 0 / 5
Distinct Operations 3 / 3
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 6

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Trove Contributor API

Contributors

Trove List API

Lists

Trove Newspaper API

Newspapers and Gazettes

Trove People API

People and Organisations

Trove Search API

Search

Trove Work API

Works

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Trove Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Trove Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Trove Context

18 classes · 95 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Trove API Rules

13 rules · 11 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Trove Openapi Overlay

16 actions · servers · trove-openapi.yml

GENERATED

JSON Schema 6

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

article

31 properties

JSON SCHEMA

articleTitle

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

contributor

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

list

18 properties

JSON SCHEMA

people

25 properties

JSON SCHEMA

work

36 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Trove Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Trove Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Trove Agentic Access

14 operations

14 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 Login
Login

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 WellKnown
WellKnown

Design & Contract 8

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral
Spectral
 JSONLD
JSONLD
 Vocabulary
Vocabulary
 DataModel
DataModel
 Conventions
Conventions
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Conformance
Conformance

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Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 Deprecation
Deprecation
 Support
Support
 Contact
Contact
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay
 Hosts
Hosts
 Vendors
Vendors
 PublicAPIsListing
PublicAPIsListing

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: trove
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/trove.png
name: Trove
description: Trove is the National Library of Australia's discovery service. It gives a single point of entry to more than
  14 billion digital items from hundreds of Australian libraries, museums, galleries, media, government and community partners.
  Its public API (version 3) returns machine-readable search results and metadata records for digitised newspaper and gazette
  articles, magazines and newsletters, lists, works (books, images, maps, music, sound, video, archives, journal articles),
  people and organisations, newspaper titles and contributors. A free Trove account and an API key are required.
url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-05-28'
modified: '2026-10-21'
x-source: public-apis/public-apis
x-category: News
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: bulk-registered-from-public-apis
tags:
- News
- Public APIs
- Library
- Cultural Heritage
- Digitised Newspapers
- Archives
- Open Data
- Australia
- Search
tags_raw:
- News
- Public APIs
- Libraries
- Cultural Heritage
- Digitised Newspapers
- Archives
- Open Data
- Australia
- Search
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/trove-agentic-access.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/trove-rate-limits.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/trove-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/trove-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/trove-vocabulary.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/trove-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/trove-changelog.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/trove-conventions.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/trove-lifecycle.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/trove-lifecycle.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/trove-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/trove-conformance.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/trove-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/trove-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/trove-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/trove-vendors.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/trove-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/trove-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something
- type: Support
  url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/help
- type: Contact
  url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/contact-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/news?type=trove_blog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/what-trove/technical-ecosystem/trove-system-updates
- type: Login
  url: https://login.nla.gov.au/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/policies/terms-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/policies/privacy
- type: PublicAPIsListing
  url: https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis
apis:
- aid: trove:trove-contributor-api
  name: Trove Contributor API
  description: Contributors
  humanURL: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  baseURL: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3
  tags:
  - Contributor
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trove-contributor-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/v3/api-technical-guide
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-the-api/what-is-the-trove-api
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3/index.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/trove-api-terms-use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-work-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-people-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-list-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-title-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-contributor-schema.json
- aid: trove:trove-list-api
  name: Trove List API
  description: Lists
  humanURL: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  baseURL: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3
  tags:
  - List
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trove-list-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/v3/api-technical-guide
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-the-api/what-is-the-trove-api
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3/index.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/trove-api-terms-use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-work-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-people-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-list-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-title-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-contributor-schema.json
- aid: trove:trove-newspaper-api
  name: Trove Newspaper API
  description: Newspapers and Gazettes
  humanURL: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  baseURL: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3
  tags:
  - Newspaper
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trove-newspaper-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/v3/api-technical-guide
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-the-api/what-is-the-trove-api
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3/index.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/trove-api-terms-use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-work-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-people-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-list-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-title-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-contributor-schema.json
- aid: trove:trove-people-api
  name: Trove People API
  description: People and Organisations
  humanURL: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  baseURL: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3
  tags:
  - People
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trove-people-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/v3/api-technical-guide
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-the-api/what-is-the-trove-api
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3/index.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/trove-api-terms-use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-work-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-people-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-list-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-title-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-contributor-schema.json
- aid: trove:trove-search-api
  name: Trove Search API
  description: Search
  humanURL: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  baseURL: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trove-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/v3/api-technical-guide
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-the-api/what-is-the-trove-api
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3/index.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/trove-api-terms-use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-work-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-people-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-list-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-title-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-contributor-schema.json
- aid: trove:trove-work-api
  name: Trove Work API
  description: Works
  humanURL: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  baseURL: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3
  tags:
  - Work
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trove-work-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/v3/api-technical-guide
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-the-api/what-is-the-trove-api
  - type: InteractiveDocumentation
    url: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3/index.html
  - type: TermsOfService
    url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/trove-api-terms-use
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-work-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-people-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-list-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-article-title-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/trove-contributor-schema.json
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: identity-verified
  detail: Site is behind an Anubis proof-of-work challenge for plain clients; pages verified with a rendered browser (titles
    name Trove).
  evidence:
  - url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/
    status: 200
  - url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api
    status: 200
  - url: https://trove.nla.gov.au/about/create-something/using-api/v3/api-technical-guide
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3/index.html
    status: 200
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-10-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 38
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=anthropic,contract=anthropic,surfaces=anthropic,docs=anthropic,regulatory=anthropic

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