ePrints Soton REST Interface
Read-only REST interface over the ePrints Soton data model, exposing the repository's eprint, user and subject datasets. Unauthenticated. Individual records dereference by identifier with a format extension and return native EPrints XML (namespace http://eprints.org/ep2/data/2.0) including nested documents and files with their own stable identifiers. Verified 2026-08-30: the dataset index returned 200 (524 bytes) and eprint 498754 returned 200 text/xml (5106 bytes) carrying populated ORCID iDs and the DOI 10.5258/SOTON/WSI-WP013. Treat it as a repository export rather than a designed API — there is no pagination, versioning, rate-limit header or published contract, and the unfiltered listing at /rest/eprint/ streamed past 11 MB without completing at a 25-second timeout. Use OAI-PMH for bulk work. Same Anubis User-Agent gate as the OAI-PMH surface.
ePrints Soton REST Interface is one of 6 APIs that University of Southampton publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Repository, Research, REST, EPrints, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, organized into 2 resource areas, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://eprints.soton.ac.uk/rest.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. They span 2 resource areas: Datasets, Eprints. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Enumeration of the repository's exposed datasets.
Individual repository records.
Schemas 4
The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Document (3 properties), Eprint (3 properties), File (1 property), Eprints (1 property). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
Source
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