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We use these keys to gather relevant statistics about the usage of the API so that we can better improve it and be able to provide a better customer support. Please do If abuse of these key is detected, Europeana Foundation may enforce limits to its usage or even block access to the Europeana APIs.
For this reason, we strongly recommend to not share these keys with third parties or expose it in user interfaces, code or in markup as the API keys are confidential and are for use by the client application or user invidual only.
Accessing the Europeana APIs
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This option makes use of the wskey parameter instead of an header. This option was the preferred and only option until 2023 but is planned for deprecation in the coming years. The reason for this change has to do with the fact that the public key can very easily be leaked when URLs are shared or bookmarked by users.
Request
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GET https://api.europeana.eu/...?wskey=[WSKEY] |
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