User Manual

Web Interface

The main entry point for web queries id the Catalogue page. It contains a filter and search form that should be pretty self-explanatory. Some additional information:

• The form fields for authors, genres and endowments expect ID values, but all contain either autocomplete functionality or all available options are provided in select fields.
• The Authors, Genres and Endowments pages contain full lists of all entries in the database.
• IDs found there can be used for manual querying.
• As of now, there is no export functionality for JSON or CSV files (it's on the roadmap).

Rest API

If you prefer to go the direct route, you can also use the REST API directly to query the data. The documentation can be found in the main menu in OpenAPI format. Some quick facts:

• The API is served on https://api.natlib.obnx.dev
• The only supported method is GET.
• There is no authentication, everything is freely available.
• Please be nice and don't abuse this power – the whole project runs on a cheap Hetzner VPS.
• CORS-headers are set to *.