The Europeana Foundation is committed to provide the same level of service to all of our users. For this reason we have established a fair use policy to be applied to all of Europeana APIs.

Policy

• For the benefit of all users of the Europeana APIs, it is imperative that users adhere to fair and reasonable use of each API to seek to prevent downtime, loss of or corruption or damage to data and/or other errors or technical issues that may result from excessive use of the API.

• Use of the API must be limited to a reasonable number of concurrent calls (API requests), together with an appropriate wait period for completion of those calls before commencing further calls. We may specify a specific number of call limits from time to time, to which you will be required to adhere.

• In the event that you receive error reports or error codes from use of our API you must immediately notify us, and reduce your usage of the API appropriately.

• Keys: The API may require a key to run or access. You are responsible for and liable for the installation and use of keys and must not copy or share the keys with third parties.

8. Europeana may limit the number of requests the User may send and receive through the Europeana API. Such a limit shall be reasonable and may be set by Europeana at any time to ensure even performance of the Europeana API to all Users.

Europeana may limit the number of requests the User may send and receive through the Europeana API. Such a limit shall be reasonable and may be set by Europeana at any time to ensure even performance of the Europeana API to all Users.

How can I lower your usage of the APIs

Download over FTP or Harvest using OAI-PMH

You can download full datasets or even the complete Europeana collection using our FTP servers or our OAI-PMH harvesting endpoint. To learn more about our FTP server or OAI-PMH endpoint, please visit this documentation page.