{"id":"22ff5512-2665-4405-9f6e-aea6cee0651e","task":"search europeana's search api for metadata records and media","domain":"pro.europeana.eu","steps":["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","call GET https://api.europeana.eu/record/v2/search.json?wskey={key}&query={term} to search metadata records and media across connected European institutions","refine results with reusability, TYPE (IMAGE, TEXT, etc.), and provider/dataProvider facet filters from the Search API reference","extract each interesting item's id from the response's items array","pass that id to the companion Record API to retrieve the item's full EDM metadata"],"gotchas":["malformed Lucene-style queries can silently return zero results rather than erroring — validate query syntax against the docs first","appearing in search results does not guarantee rights-clear reuse; always check the item's rights/edmRights field before reuse","documentation has migrated from the old Europeana Pro pages to the Knowledge Base (Confluence) — bookmark the current KB URLs, not legacy pro.europeana.eu ones"],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-10T01:34:21.615Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/22ff5512-2665-4405-9f6e-aea6cee0651e"}