Språkbanken Text Metadata API v3
The catalogue over everything Språkbanken Text publishes — corpora, lexicons, models, analyses, utilities and collections — with BibTeX citation export, a published JSON schema endpoint and its own OpenAPI served by the service itself. Institution-operated: declared servers are ws.spraakbanken.gu.se production and dev, info.contact is sb-info@svenska.gu.se. Verified live 2026-09-01: anonymous GET / returned HTTP 200 with 2,531,491 bytes of catalogue JSON, and GET /list-ids returned 1,499 resource ids. Every resource record carries a DataCite DOI under prefix 10.23695.
Språkbanken Text Metadata API v3 is one of 14 APIs that University of Gothenburg publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.
This API exposes 1 JSON Schema definition.
Tagged areas include Metadata, Catalog, Research Data, Language Technology, and DOI. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, and 1 JSON Schema.
This API exposes 17 operations across 16 paths, organized into 4 resource areas, and defines 10 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.1.0, at version 3.3.1.
Requests are made against 2 base URLs: https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/ws/metadata/v3, https://ws.spraakbanken.gu.se/ws/metadata/dev.
Metadata
The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.
Paths & Operations 17
Across 16 paths, the API surfaces 17 operations — 16 GET, 1 POST. They span 4 resource areas: Metadata retrieval, MISC, Cache management, Documentation. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.
Endpoints for retrieving metadata about resources
Miscellaneous endpoints
Endpoints for managing the metadata cache
Endpoints for API documentation
Schemas 10
The contract defines 10 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are AllResouresList (5 properties), Resource (4 properties), ResourceList (3 properties), ValidationError (3 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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