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Imperial College London Discover API

Search and browse over indexed objects.

Imperial College London Discover API is one of 4 APIs that Imperial College London publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Discover. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 1 operation across 1 path, and defines 5 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 7.6.1.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/api.

1 operations 1 paths 5 schemas 1 GET

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
7.6.1
Server
https://spiral.imperial.ac.uk/server/api
Resource Areas
1

Paths & Operations 1

Across 1 path, the API surfaces 1 operation — 1 GET. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Discover 1

Search and browse over indexed objects.

GET
/discover/search/objects
Search indexed objects
searchObjects 6 params → 200

Schemas 5

The contract defines 5 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SearchResult (8 properties), DSpaceObject (7 properties), MetadataValue (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

SearchResult
object
8 properties
MetadataMap
object
Map of Dublin Core / DSpace metadata field keys (e.g. dc.title, dc.contributor.author) to arrays of metadata values.
Item
DSpaceObject
object
7 properties
MetadataValue
object
A single metadata field value in DSpace's metadata model.
5 properties 1 required

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

imperial-college-london-discover-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

Other APIs Imperial College London publishes across the network.

Imperial Shibboleth Identity Provider (SAML 2.0)
Imperial College London Core API
Imperial College London Root API