REST Response

Examples:

Example responses for each of the four base resources provided by the WorldCat Knowledge Base REST API can be found on the following detail pages:

• Collections
• Entries
• Providers
• Settings

Below is an example that demonstrates the difference between an XML and a JSON request.

XML vs. JSON:

Following is an example of a XML response for the query:

http://worldcat.org/webservices/kb/rest/collections/NPG.journals?wskey=...

which yields the following response:

<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:kb="http://worldcat.org/kb">
	<title type="text">Nature Publishing Group</title>
	<id>
		http://worldcat.org/webservices/kb/rest/collections/NPG.journals
	</id>
	<link href="http://worldcat.org/webservices/kb/rest/collections/NPG.journals" rel="self"/>
	<kb:provider_uid>NPG</kb:provider_uid>
	<kb:provider_name>Nature Publishing Group</kb:provider_name>
	<kb:collection_uid>NPG.journals</kb:collection_uid>
	<kb:owner_institution>6569</kb:owner_institution>
	<kb:source_institution>6569</kb:source_institution>
	<kb:status>raw</kb:status>
	<kb:dbkey/>
	<link href="http://www.nature.com" rel="via"/>
	<kb:linkscheme>npg</kb:linkscheme>
	<kb:extra_link_params/>
	<kb:open>true</kb:open>
	<kb:ext>#Mon Oct 03 10:07:17 EDT 2011</kb:ext>
	<kb:available_entries>93</kb:available_entries>
	<kb:selected_entries>93</kb:selected_entries>
	<kb:collection_uid>NPG.journals</kb:collection_uid>
</entry>

And this is the same query with JSON selected as the output:

http://worldcat.org/webservices/kb/rest/collections/NPG.journals?alt=json&wskey=...

returning:

{
    "provider_uid": "NPG",
    "provider_name": "Nature Publishing Group",
    "collection_uid": "NPG.journals",
    "name": "Nature Publishing Group",
    "url": "http://www.nature.com",
    "linkscheme": "npg",
    "status": "raw",
    "open": true,
    "collType": [
        "browsable"
    ],
    "ownerInstitutionId": "6569",
    "sourceInstitutionId": "6569",
    "extraLinkParams": "",
    "availableEntries": 93,
    "selectedEntries": 93,
    "extensions": "#Mon Oct 03 10:23:39 EDT 2011\n"
}