OCLC APIs
Find information about how to access the OCLC Developer Network and find support for working with OCLC APIs.
The OCLC Developer Network allows you to learn about OCLC APIs, view OCLC API documentation, and participate in the OCLC APIs community.
- Get started
- Find out how to request an API WSKey and contact the OCLC Developer Network team with API issues.
- Troubleshooting
- Find frequently asked questions (FAQ) and troubleshooting steps (Troubleshooting).
- Can I get a full list of all our active ILL requests using the Resource Sharing API?
- Can OCLC add additional flows to API keys?
- Can students, non-library staff and professors use WSKeys?
- How do we configure our API to allow for CORS support?
- Featured OCLC APIs Troubleshooting articles
- How can I access the user interface for the WorldShare Identity Management Sandbox API?
- How can I renew my WSKeys?
- How can I use OCLC APIs in Postman?
- How can we integrate the new EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) with WorldCat?
- How do I find a list of my institution's WSKeys?
- How do I request a WSKey?
- How do I set up MarcEdit OCLC Integration?
- How do we expand what user data the Identity Management API can pull via the SCIM/Me operation?
- How long does it take for my WSKey to expire?
- I'm getting the error message "There was a problem processing your request" when I try to request a WSKey
- Is there an API that can search and retrieve article records?
- Is there a different way I should be obtaining a token to make requests to the Search API?
- Is there a limit to the number of API queries that can be made in a day?
- Is there a maximum number of terms that can be sent in an API query?
- I am getting a "not authenticated" error when using CCG authentication for an API key.
- I am trying to authorize using the inline test tool, but I am getting an error.
- I need to update a key to allow for the clientCredential flow.
- I received an unauthorized message response after receiving a response other than unauthorized.
- On the API authorization screen I choose execute but there is no token in the GET response.
- Query returns a "no Route matched with those values" error
- What IP address do OCLC APIs use?
- When we attempt to generate tokens for the WorldCat Search API we get failures.
- Why am I getting a 401 unauthorized error with the IPADDRESS NOT ALLOWED error when using the WorldCat KB API?
- Why am I getting a 403 Forbidden URL error when making a call on an API?
- Why am I getting a blank screen after login to the WS-key Admin site?
- Why am I receiving an "403:unauthorized flow attempt" error?
- Why do I get an "Unrecognized IP" message when using WorldCat Search API?
- Why is the Interlibrary Loan Policies Directory API only pulling back 5000 results?
- Why is the WorldCat Search API not pulling back results for certain OCLC Symbols?
- WorldShare Identity Management API returns the "Attribute from request is ignored because it's not recognized" error