EUROPEANA API SERVICES: EMBED. ENGAGE. GROW

What are they?

Europeana API services are web services allowing search and display of Europeana collections in your website and applications.

You can choose between two services depending on your needs, website concept and available technical resources:

Europeana Search API (Application Programming Interface) allows you to build applications of your own: from a customised view of the Europeana content on your websites (for instance, how much information to be shown, where, and in what format) to creative mash-ups and new services such as an iPhone app. The API is based on the Open Search standard, and developers will find it easy to work with.

Europeana Search Widget is a ready-made search box suitable for organisations who want to enable search in Europeana collections with the least possible effort. The widget is easily styled, configured and quickly embedded by simply copying and pasting an HTML-snippet into your website.

Currently, Europeana API services are only available to Europeana network partners. For more detailed information, please check the Europeana API Terms of Use.

How can you benefit from them?

Our API services support your efforts to:

  • Enrich search results from your collections with diverse, relevant information from Europeana
  • Offer novel API-based applications for refined content usage and visualisation
  • Grow your online presence by raising your profile, increasing your web traffic and building loyal and active user communities