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OAI-PMH API

The Rijksmuseum offers an API featuring the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH). The spec's documentation provides in-depth information about the OAI-PMH spec and how to use it. Information and examples specific to the Rijksmuseum are listed below.

Access to the OAI-PMH API

The API is available at the following URL. No API key is needed.

OAI-PMH base url
https://data.rijksmuseum.nl/oai