Europeana Search and Record API

openapi: 3.0.3
info:
  title: Europeana Search and Record API
  description: >-
    The Europeana REST API gives programmatic access to over 50 million cultural
    heritage items, including books, paintings, films, museum objects, and
    archival records aggregated from more than 3,500 institutions across Europe.
    The Search API discovers records, and the Record API returns the full
    metadata for a specific item.
  version: "2.0"
  contact:
    name: Europeana Pro
    url: https://pro.europeana.eu/page/apis
  license:
    name: EUPL 1.2
    url: https://eupl.eu/1.2/en/
  termsOfService: https://www.europeana.eu/en/rights
servers:
  - url: https://api.europeana.eu/record/v2
    description: Europeana Record/Search v2 API
security:
  - apiKeyAuth: []
tags:
  - name: Search
    description: Discover records via keyword, faceted, and filtered search
  - name: Record
    description: Retrieve full metadata for a single record
paths:
  /search.json:
    get:
      summary: Search records
      description: Search the Europeana collection using keyword, facet, and filter parameters.
      operationId: searchRecords
      tags:
        - Search
      parameters:
        - name: query
          in: query
          required: true
          description: Search query string.
          schema:
            type: string
            example: "mona lisa"
        - name: qf
          in: query
          required: false
          description: Query refinement filter (repeatable).
          schema:
            type: array
            items:
              type: string
        - name: rows
          in: query
          required: false
          description: Number of records to return (max 100).
          schema:
            type: integer
            default: 12
        - name: start
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: integer
            default: 1
        - name: profile
          in: query
          required: false
          description: Response profile (minimal, standard, rich, facets).
          schema:
            type: string
            enum: [minimal, standard, rich, facets, portal]
        - name: media
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: boolean
        - name: thumbnail
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: boolean
        - name: reusability
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
            enum: [open, restricted, permission]
      responses:
        "200":
          description: Search results
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: "#/components/schemas/SearchResponse"
        "401":
          description: Missing or invalid API key
  /{datasetId}/{localId}.json:
    get:
      summary: Get record
      description: Returns the full metadata record for a Europeana object.
      operationId: getRecord
      tags:
        - Record
      parameters:
        - name: datasetId
          in: path
          required: true
          description: Dataset identifier (collection prefix).
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: localId
          in: path
          required: true
          description: Local identifier within the dataset.
          schema:
            type: string
        - name: profile
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
            enum: [params, similar]
      responses:
        "200":
          description: Record response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: "#/components/schemas/RecordResponse"
        "404":
          description: Record not found
components:
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: query
      name: wskey
      description: Europeana API key. Register at https://pro.europeana.eu/pages/get-api.
  schemas:
    SearchResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
        itemsCount:
          type: integer
        totalResults:
          type: integer
        items:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
        facets:
          type: array
          items:
            type: object
    RecordResponse:
      type: object
      properties:
        success:
          type: boolean
        object:
          type: object
          description: Full EDM (Europeana Data Model) metadata object.