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bhl.literature.search

mock data$0.001 / call

Search BHL Publications (Catalog)

Search the Biodiversity Heritage Library catalog by keyword across title, author, subject, and publisher fields. BHL is the world's largest open-access library of biodiversity literature — 60M+ pages of digitized natural-history books, journals, and manuscripts from 1469 to the present, all public domain. Returns item and title IDs, full title, authors, publisher, publication date, genre, and direct URLs to the digitized item and bibliography page. Use bhl.literature.fulltext to search within the scanned text of publications.

Referenceprovider: Bhl#bhl#reference

Input schema

page

Page number for pagination (default 1)

integer
limit

Number of results per page (1–50, default 10)

integer
queryrequired

Keyword to search for — matches title, author, subject, and publisher fields (e.g. "Darwin birds Galapagos")

string

Call via REST

curl -X POST https://unifyapi.pro/api/call/bhl.literature.search \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer uak_live_..." \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"page":0,"limit":0,"query":"<query>"}'

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