Search bibliographic records via the Koha REST API

domain: koha-community.org · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Authenticate to Koha's REST API via cookie session, HTTP basic auth, or OAuth2 client credentials depending on the deployment's configured authentication method
  2. Send a GET request to /api/v1/biblios
  3. Use the q query parameter to filter results (a JSON object using Koha's own DBIC-style query DSL, e.g. -like/-in/-between operators) and _page/_per_page to paginate
  4. Set the x-koha-embed header to include related resources such as items in the response
  5. Parse the JSON array of biblio objects returned

Known gotchas

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