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Overview

The Data Access Portal provides RESTful web services APIs for programmatic use of the DAP.

There are four main groups of web service endpoints that can be used:

Endpoints	Status	Also known as	Access	Description	Documentation
https://data.csiro.au/dap/ws/v2/collections	Stable	/ws/v2	Public – read only	Use this to search and access DAP collections.	https://data.csiro.au/dap/swagger-ui.html?urls.primaryName=%40DAP-WS-V2
https://data.csiro.au/dap/api/v2	Stable / In Development	/api/v2	CSIRO staff only	All deposit features available in the DAP user interface.	https://data.csiro.au/dap/swagger-ui.html?urls.primaryName=DAP-API-V2

Feature	/ws/v2 (stable)
Responses in JSON or XML	Yes
Authenticate as CSIRO staff, Partners or OPAL user	Yes
Search collections by keyword	Yes
Search by location	Yes
Search by: contributor organisational unit research program research group cost centre WBS Field of Research code	Yes
Search by publication date range	Yes
Apply search facets to filter results	Yes
Retrieve collection metadata	Yes
List a collection’s available versions	Yes
List a collection’s files	Yes
Retrieve a file from a collection (for mounted collections < 10GB)	Yes
List a collection’s supporting attachments	Yes
Retrieve a supporting file from a collection	Yes
Retrieve image thumbnails from a collections	Yes
List accessible download options for a collection	Yes
List the folder tree for a collection	Yes
Retrieve a paginated list of files for a given folder in a collection	Yes
Retrieve a list of files as a zip archive	Yes
Export a collection’s file level metadata to Excel	Yes
Mount a collection	Yes
Retrieve a licence	Yes
Retrieve a list of “external system” tags	Yes
Retrieve a list of collections for a external system tag	Yes
AAHL Virus Image Search endpoints	Yes
ATNF Pulsar Observation Search endpoints	Yes
CASDA Observation Search endpoints	Yes
CASDA Skymap Search endpoints	Yes