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GET /v1/item

An item's full metadata

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api.oanor.com/archive-api

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/v1/item" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/v1/item", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/v1/item");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/archive-api/v1/item",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "item": {
            "url": "https://archive.org/details/TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer",
            "date": null,
            "year": null,
            "added": "2011-10-17 01:49:12",
            "title": "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer",
            "creator": [
                "Mark Twain"
            ],
            "language": [],
            "subjects": [
                "For school; Mark Twain"
            ],
            "downloads": null,
            "mediatype": "audio",
            "published": "2011-10-17 01:52:55",
            "publisher": null,
            "file_count": 4,
            "identifier": "TheAdventuresOfTomSawyer",
            "collections": [
                "opensource_audio",
                "community"
            ],
            "description": "book",
            "license_url": null,
            "num_reviews": null,
            "total_bytes": 121001
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T08:13:25.226Z",
        "request_id": "6299cb84-bed6-4216-8830-0313b10010a5"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Item retrieved",
    "success": true
}