Europeana APIs allow you to build applications that use the wealth of our collections drawn from the major museums and galleries across Europe. Their scope includes millions of cultural heritage items (from books and paintings to 3D objects and audiovisual material) that celebrate around 4,000 cultural institutions across Europe.
Have you never used an API before but do you want to start using Europeana's data for your own project? Learn about our APIs and how to use one.
Our API documentation has moved from Europeana Pro to the Europeana Knowledge Base. Select the specific API that you want to use below to go directly to its documentation page, or visit the API landing page where you can find all our API documentation, FAQs, and other supporting information.
Learn how to access each of our APIs once you have an API key.
This API provides a way to search for metadata records and media on the Europeana repository.
This API takes a Record ID as input and returns all of its metadata and object information modelled in the EDM.
This API allows you to retrieve and search for LOD entities from Europeana's Entity Collection, comprising people, places and mor…
The Annotations API allows you to create and retrieve user- and machine-created annotations on Europeana objects or media.
These APIs offer an alternative means to group, search for and access information about cultural heritage images.
This API allows you to explore connections between Europeana data and outside data sources, like Geonames, Wikidata, and more.
Find out which different Linked Open Data formats the Europeana API suite supports.
We offer methods for downloading and harvesting metadata from Europeana.eu that are better suited for scale.
Use this API to search for, retrieve and use thumbnails automatically generates for objects ingested in Europeana's database.
This API allows you to interact with our recommendation system, which recommends other similar or relevant records to users.
This API gives access to all of the data related to user-generated galleries on Europeana.eu.
