UF Libraries Patron API
The public read API of the George A. Smathers Libraries, backing the UF Digital Collections, the Digital Library of the Caribbean and the Florida Digital Newspaper Library. Seventeen resources over a corpus of more than a million items: exact and faceted search, OCR full-text page search, bounding-box and radius geospatial search, per-item MODS citation and downloads, serial hierarchy, collection and media-type vocabularies with live counts, public view statistics, three RSS feeds, and a conformant OAI-PMH 2.0 repository at /oai serving Dublin Core and MODS 3.7. It is self-documenting — the root returns a machine-readable resource index and each resource returns worked example URLs — which is how this contract was derived, since UF publishes no OpenAPI for it. Institution-operated: api.patron.uflib.ufl.edu resolves into UFNET with no vendor CNAME, and no repository product (Figshare, DSpace, EPrints, Dataverse, Pure) appears anywhere in its payloads.
UF Libraries Patron API is one of 9 APIs that University of Florida publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Digital Collections, Library, Research Data, OAI-PMH, and Metadata. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, authentication docs, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 21 operations across 21 paths, organized into 5 resource areas, and defines 6 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 2026-09-01.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.patron.uflib.ufl.edu.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 21
Across 21 paths, the API surfaces 21 operations — 21 GET. They span 5 resource areas: Discovery, Search, Item, Analytics, Harvest. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Root index and controlled vocabularies.
Full-text, exact, geospatial and page-level search.
Per-item citation, downloads and volume enumeration.
Public view statistics.
OAI-PMH and RSS harvesting surfaces.
Schemas 6
The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are Hit (22 properties), Citation (9 properties), FdnlTitle (8 properties), SearchResult (5 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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