search europeana's search api for metadata records and media

domain: pro.europeana.eu · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. register for a free API key (wskey) via Europeana Pro; current API documentation lives on the Europeana Knowledge Base (europeana.atlassian.net), not the older pro.europeana.eu pages
  2. call GET https://api.europeana.eu/record/v2/search.json?wskey={key}&query={term} to search metadata records and media across connected European institutions
  3. refine results with reusability, TYPE (IMAGE, TEXT, etc.), and provider/dataProvider facet filters from the Search API reference
  4. extract each interesting item's id from the response's items array
  5. pass that id to the companion Record API to retrieve the item's full EDM metadata

Known gotchas

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