search trove (national library of australia) v3 api across categories (newspapers, people, archives, etc.)

domain: trove.nla.gov.au · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps

  1. Create a Trove user account, then submit the 'Request a Trove API key' form from your account's Trove API tab
  2. Wait for approval (most requests answered within about a week)
  3. Call GET https://api.trove.nla.gov.au/v3/result?q=<query>&category=<all|newspaper|magazine|image|research|book|diary|music|people|list> with header 'X-API-KEY: YOUR_KEY'
  4. Add &encoding=json if you want JSON (XML is the default encoding)
  5. Use facets in the response to refine by format, place, date, etc., per the v3 API technical guide

Known gotchas

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