Europeana
Cultural heritage items for Europe. Access: Public API, key needed. Terms checked November 1, 2026.
Access and terms
| Slug | europeana |
|---|---|
| Records | Cultural heritage items |
| Places | Europe |
| Years | Not stated by the source |
| Access | Public API |
| Key | Needed. The server reads EUROPEANA_API_KEY, which is not set yet. |
| Rate limit | Personal keys have limits the docs describe as enough for testing and discovery; project keys have higher limits. The access page publishes no figure. |
| robots.txt | Not checked. |
| Homepage | www.europeana.eu/ |
| API docs | europeana.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/EF/pages/2462351393/Accessing+the+APIs |
| Terms | www.europeana.eu/en/rights/api-terms-of-use |
| Checked by hand | November 1, 2026 |
Notes
Most API calls need a key (the Thumbnail API, OAI-PMH and SPARQL do not). A personal key comes from Manage API keys after signing in to a Europeana account and accepting the API key terms; a project key needs a form and takes 1 to 5 working days. The API terms page answered 403 to our fetch, so its text was not read; the terms are accepted when the key is requested. The health probe calls the Search API without a key and counts the 401 as proof the API is answering.
Evidence read on November 1, 2026
Status: Live
Live at the last check, 2026-11-01 22:02 UTC. HTTP 401 in 146 ms. One check a day.
JSON: /v1/sources/europeana. For agents: /sources/europeana/llms.txt.