Search the library

Search across all books, translations, and page content. Returns matching books and pages with snippets.

get/search

Request

  • Base URL: https://sourcelibrary.org/api
  • URL: https://sourcelibrary.org/api/search
  • Auth: none declared

Query parameters

qstring required

Search query (min 2 characters). Searches titles, authors, and translation content.

language'Latin' | 'German' | 'French' | 'Italian' | 'English' | 'Dutch' | 'Spanish'

Filter by original language

category'alchemy' | 'hermeticism' | 'jewish-kabbalah' | 'christian-cabala' | 'neoplatonism' | 'rosicrucianism' | 'natural-philosophy' | 'astrology' | 'natural-magic' | 'ritual-magic' | 'theurgy' | 'mysticism' | 'theology' | 'medicine' | 'gnosticism'

Filter by category

date_fromstring

Publication year start (e.g., 1500)

date_tostring

Publication year end (e.g., 1700)

has_doiboolean

Only return books with DOIs

has_translationboolean

Only return books with translations

limitinteger

Maximum results (default 20, max 100)

offsetinteger

Pagination offset

Response

Search results

querystring
totalinteger
offsetinteger
limitinteger

Changes

No recorded changes to this operation across all 1 revision of this API.