Penn Libraries Franklin Catalog — JSON API
JSON:API surface of Franklin, the Penn Libraries discovery catalog, operated by Penn Libraries on find.library.upenn.edu. /catalog.json returned HTTP 200 with links, meta.pages and data[] over 388,604 records; /catalog/{id}.json returned 200 for a record id taken from that result set; an unmatched query correctly returned 200 with an empty data[] rather than a 404. Penn Libraries publishes an open-metadata policy explicitly permitting reuse of this data. Contract derived from live probes.
Penn Libraries Franklin Catalog — JSON API is one of 10 APIs that University of Pennsylvania publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Library, Library Catalog, Bibliographic Data, Open Data, and Discovery. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes 2 operations across 2 paths, and defines 4 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://find.library.upenn.edu.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 2
Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 2 operations — 2 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Bibliographic search and record retrieval.
Schemas 4
The contract defines 4 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Resource (4 properties), SearchResult (4 properties), RecordDocument (3 properties), Error (2 properties). 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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