Python interface for Europeana's APIs

This package is a Python client library for several APIs from Europeana:

• Search API
• Record API
• Entity API
• IIIF API

With this tool you can access in python the data and metadata from our collections. Learn more about the Europeana Data Model here

Installation

Using pip

pip install pyeuropeana

From source

(.venv) $ git clone https://github.com/europeana/rd-europeana-python-api.git
(.venv) $ cd rd-europeana-python-api
(.venv) $ pip install .

Authentication

Get your API key here

Set EUROPEANA_API_KEY as an environment variable running export EUROPEANA_API_KEY=yourapikey in the terminal.

If running in Google Colab use os.environ['EUROPEANA_API_KEY'] = 'yourapikey'

Usage

Search API

import pyeuropeana.apis as apis
import pyeuropeana.utils as utils

# use this function to search our collections
result = apis.search(
    query = '*',
    qf = '(skos_concept:"http://data.europeana.eu/concept/base/48" AND TYPE:IMAGE)',
    reusability = 'open AND permission',
    media = True,
    thumbnail = True,
    landingpage = True,
    colourpalette = '#0000FF',
    theme = 'photography',
    sort = 'europeana_id',
    profile = 'rich',
    rows = 1000,
    ) # this gives you full response metadata along with cultural heritage object metadata

    # use this utility function to transform a subset of the cultural heritage object metadata
    # into a readable Pandas DataFrame
dataframe = utils.search2df(result)

Record API

import pyeuropeana.apis as apis

# gets the metadata from an object using its europeana id
data = apis.record('/79/resource_document_museumboerhaave_V35167')

Entity API

import pyeuropeana.apis as apis

# suggests an entity based on a text query
data = apis.entity.suggest(
  text = 'leonardo',
  TYPE = 'agent',
  language = 'es'
)

# retrieves the data from an entity using the identifier
data = apis.entity.retrieve(
  TYPE = 'agent',
  IDENTIFIER = 3
)

# resolves entities from an input URI
data = apis.entity.resolve('http://dbpedia.org/resource/Leonardo_da_Vinci')

IIIF API

import pyeuropeana.apis as apis

# The IIIF API is mostly used to access newspapers collections at Europeana

# returns a minimal set of metadata for an object
data = apis.iiif.manifest('/9200356/BibliographicResource_3000118390149')

# returns text and annotations for a given page of an object
data = apis.iiif.annopage(
  RECORD_ID = '/9200356/BibliographicResource_3000118390149',
  PAGE_ID = 1
)

# returns the transciption of a single page of a newspaper
data = apis.iiif.fulltext(
  RECORD_ID = '/9200396/BibliographicResource_3000118435063',
  FULLTEXT_ID = '8ebb67ccf9f8a1dcc2ea119c60954111'
)

Documentation

The documentation is available at Read the Docs

You can also build the docs