National Archives and Records Administration Transcriptions API is one of 16 APIs that National Archives and Records Administration publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
Tagged areas include Transcriptions. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.
This API exposes
9 operations
across 7 paths,
and defines 1 schema.
It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.0, at version 0.2.0.
Requests are made against a single base URL, https://catalog.archives.gov/api/v2/.
9 operations7 paths1 schemas1 DELETE4 GET3 POST1 PUT
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.0
API Version
0.2.0
Base URL
https://catalog.archives.gov/api/v2/
Resource Areas
1
Paths & Operations 9
Across 7 paths, the API surfaces 9 operations — 1 DELETE, 4 GET, 3 POST, 1 PUT. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Transcriptions 9
Transcription search and data retrieval
GET
/transcriptions/search
Get search results for transcriptions data by sending a request with search parameters to the catalog.
6 params→ 200400422
GET
/transcriptions/{id}
Get a single transcription object by transcription id.
The contract defines 1 schema that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed is transcriptionBody (5 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.
transcriptionBody
object
5 properties3 required
Specification
The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.
