The Europeana Foundation (EF) 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 the Europeana APIs 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.

• Use of the API must be limited to a reasonable number of concurrent requests to an API, together with an appropriate wait period for completion of those calls before commencing further calls. EF may specify a limit per type of request and/or accross all Europeana APIs, to which you will be required to adhere.

• In the event that you receive an error response resulting from reaching the limit considered as reasonable for using the Europeana APIs, you must reduce the number of concurrent requests to a reasonable limit and read the documentation on how to best make use of the Europeana APIs. If your use case

• get in contact with the Europeana API’s customer support at api@europeana.eu for

• .

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.