WorldCat Basic API
Developer-level access to WorldCat - for limited data.
Status: Production
Search WorldCat and receive results for items in libraries. (WorldCat Basic API is a scaled-down version of the WorldCat Search API.)
What you get
- Information about books, video, music and more in WorldCat
- Information about authors, titles, ISBNs and OCLC numbers
- Records in standard bibliographic citation formats (APA, Chicago, Harvard, MLA, and Turabian)
- A link back to WorldCat.org for geographically-sorted library information
Who can use it
Non-commercial Use
Interested in commercial use of this service? Contact us.
Usage Limit
1000 requests per day
Query protocols
OpenSearch
Record formats
- Atom
- RSS
Authentication methods
- Developer Key
Frequency of Update
Daily
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