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CONTENTdm (classic version) API

Find an overview of the CONTENTdm (classic version) API, which is a read-only web service to access CONTENTdm (classic version) collections and records in JSON or XML format.

The CONTENTdm (classic version) API is a read-only web service to access CONTENTdm (classic version) collections and records in JSON or XML format. For a given CONTENTdm (classic version) website URL you can access the API via the /bl/dmwebservices/ URL path. For example, on the CONTENTdm (classic version) Sandbox site, the JSON call to list the collections looks like this:

https://cdmdemo.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/bl/dmwebservices/index.php?q=dmGetCollectionList/json

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