Archivematica API
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Endpoints require authentication with a username and API key. This can be submitted as GET parameters (eg ?username=demo&api_key=e6282adabed84e39ffe451f8bf6ff1a67c1fc9f2
) or as a header (eg Authorization: ApiKey demo:e6282adabed84e39ffe451f8bf6ff1a67c1fc9f2
)
Endpoints return JSON. If there's an error, they will return a 4xx or 5xx HTTP error code and a JSON body {'error': True, 'message': 'message describing error'}
Transfer
Start Transfer
- URL:
/api/transfer/start_transfer/
- Verb: POST
- Start a transfer.
- Parameters: JSON body
name
: Name of new transfertype
: Type of the new transfer. One of: standard, unzipped bag, zipped bag, dspaceaccession
: Accession number of new transferpaths[]
: List of base64-encoded "<location_uuid>:<relative_path>" to be copied into the new transfer. Location UUIDs should be associated with this pipeline, and relative path should be relative to the location (TODO confirm relative vs absolute path). E.g. NWJiYWJjMTMtMTIyNy00MWE3LWIwY2QtZjJhYzM1MjkxZTdmOi92YWdyYW50L3NhbXBsZWRhdGEvQ1NWbWV0YWRhdGE= (decoded: 5bbabc13-1227-41a7-b0cd-f2ac35291e7f:/vagrant/sampledata/CSVmetadata)row_ids[]
: ID of the associated TransferMetadataSet for disk image ingest. Can be provided as [""]
- Response: JSON
message
: "Copy successful."path
: Path the transfer was copied to on start?
List Unapproved Transfers
- URL:
/api/transfer/unapproved
- Verb: GET
- Returns a list of transfers waiting for approval.
- Response: JSON
message
: "Fetched unapproved transfers successfully."results
: List of dicts with keys:type
: Transfer type. One of: standard, unzipped bag, zipped bag, dspacedirectory
: Directory the transfer is in currentlyuuid
: UUID of the transfer
Approve Transfer
- URL:
/api/transfer/approve
- Verb: POST
- Approve a transfer waiting to be started.
- Parameters: JSON body
type
: Type of the transfer to approved. One of: standard, unzipped bag, zipped bag, dspace.directory
: Name of the directory for the transfer to approve
- Response: JSON
message
: "Approval successful."uuid
: UUID of the approved transfer
Status
- URL:
/transfer/status/<transfer UUID>/
- Verb: GET
- Returns the status of the transfer.
- Response: JSON
status
: One of FAILED, REJECTED, USER_INPUT, COMPLETE or PROCESSINGname
: Name of the transfer, e.g. "imgs"sip_uuid
: If status is COMPLETE, this field will exist with either the UUID of the SIP or 'BACKLOG'microservice
: Name of the current microservicedirectory
: Name of the directory, e.g. "imgs-52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c"path
: Full path to the transfer, e.g. "/var/archivematica/sharedDirectory/watchedDirectories/SIPCreation/completedTransfers/imgs-52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c/"message
: "Fetched status for <transfer UUID> successfully."type
: "transfer"uuid
: UUID of the transfer, e.g. "52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c"
Hide
- URL:
/api/transfer/<transfer UUID>/delete/
- Verb: DELETE
- Hide a transfer
- Response: JSON
removed
: True
Completed
- URL:
/api/transfer/completed/
- Verb: GET
- Return list of Transfers that are completed
- Response: JSON
message
: "Fetched completed transfers successfully."results
: List of UUIDs of completed Transfers
- Added in Archivematica 1.6
Start Reingest
- URL:
/api/transfer/reingest
- Verb: POST
- Start a full reingest.
- Parameters: JSON body
name
: Name of the AIP. The AIP should also be found at%sharedDirectory%/tmp/<name>
uuid
: UUID of the AIP to reingest
- Response: JSON
message
: "Approval successful."reingest_uuid
: UUID of the reingested transfer
Ingest
Status
- URL:
/ingest/status/<unit UUID>/
- Verb: GET
- Returns the status of the SIP
- Response: JSON
status
: One of FAILED, REJECTED, USER_INPUT, COMPLETE or PROCESSINGname
: Name of the SIP, e.g. "imgs"microservice
: Name of the current microservicedirectory
: Name of the directory, e.g. "imgs-52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c"path
: Full path to the transfer, e.g. "/var/archivematica/sharedDirectory/currentlyProcessing/imgs-52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c/"message
: "Fetched status for <SIP UUID> successfully."type
: "SIP"uuid
: UUID of the SIP, e.g. "52dd0c01-e803-423a-be5f-b592b5d5d61c"
Hide
- URL:
/api/ingest/<SIP UUID>/delete/
- Verb: DELETE
- Hide a SIP
- Response: JSON
removed
: True
List SIPS Waiting for User Input
- URL:
/api/ingest/waiting
- Verb: GET
- Returns a list of SIPs waiting for user input.
- Response: JSON
message
: "Fetched units successfully."results
: List of dicts with keys:sip_directory
: Directory the SIP is in currentlysip_uuid
: UUID of the SIPsip_name
: Name of the SIPmicroservice
: Name of the current microservice
Improvement Note: Despite the URL, this currently returns both SIPs & transfers that are waiting for user input. A separate /api/transfer/waiting should be added for transfers.
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Completed
- URL:
/api/ingest/completed/
- Verb: GET
- Return list of SIPs that are completed
- Response: JSON
message
: "Fetched completed ingests successfully."results
: List of UUIDs of completed SIPs
- Added in Archivematica 1.6
Reingest
- URL:
/api/ingest/reingest
- Verb: POST
- Start a partial or metadata-only reingest.
- Parameters: JSON body
name
: Name of the AIP. The AIP should also be found at%sharedDirectory%/tmp/<name>
uuid
: UUID of the AIP to reingest
- Response: JSON
message
: "Approval successful."reingest_uuid
: UUID of the reingested SIP
Copy Metadata
- URL:
/api/ingest/copy_metadata_files/
- Verb: POST
- Add metadata files to a SIP.
- Parameters: JSON body
sip_uuid
: UUID of the SIP to put files insource_paths[]
: List of files to be copied, base64 encoded, in the format 'source_location_uuid:full_path'
- Response: JSON
error
: Falsemessage
: "Files added successfully."
Administration
Levels of Description
- URL:
/api/administration/dips/atom/levels/
- Verb: GET?
- Returns a JSON-encoded set of the configured levels of description.
- Response: JSON. List of AtoM Levels of description with key 'UUID' and value 'name of level of description'.
Fetch Levels of Description
- URL:
/api/administration/dips/atom/fetch_levels/
- Verb: GET?
- Fetch all levels of description from an AtoM database, replacing any previously existing.
- Response: JSON. Updated list of AtoM Levels of description with key 'UUID' and value 'name of level of description'.
Other
Path Metadata
- URL:
/api/filesystem/metadata/
- Verb: GET, POST
- Fetch (GET) or update (POST) metadata for a path (currently only level of description).
- Parameters: Query string parameters (GET) or JSON body (POST)
path
: Arranged path to get metadata on
- GET response: JSON
level_of_description
: Level of description
- POST response: JSON
success
: True
Processing Configuration
- URL:
/api/processing-configuration/<name>
- Verb: GET?
- Return processing configuration with <name>
- Response: The processing config file as a stream.
- Content type: text/xml
Beta endpoints
API endpoints which are still in-flux and that could potentially change.
Package
Provides additional functionality over the start and approve transfer endpoints, for example, wrapping both those steps into a single call.
- URL:
/api/v2beta/package
- Verb: POST
- Start a new transfer type.
- Parameters: JSON body
- Mandatory
name
: Transfer namepath
: Path relative, or absolute to a storage service transfer source
- Optional
type
: Transfer type, e.g. standard, dataverse, zipped bag, default:standard
accession
: Accession IDaccess_system_id
: Access system ID (see docs)metadata_set_id
: TBCauto_approve
: BooleanTrue
orFalse
to set the transfer to auto-approve, default:True
- Mandatory
- Response: JSON
id
: Transfer UUID
Examples:
Only a subset of these options might be needed for most use-cases. A fundamental difference between the package
endpoint and others from which a transfer can be initiated is that a storage service transfer location UUID isnt always required. In some cases that might still be ideal.
Starting a transfer using an absolute path:
curl -v POST \ -H "Authorization: ApiKey test:test" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d "{\ \"path\": \"$(echo -n '/home/archivematica/archivematica-sampledata/SampleTransfers/DemoTransfer' | base64 -w 0)\", \ \"name\": \"demo_transfer_absolute\", \ \"processing_config\": \"automated\", \ \"type\": \"standard\" \ }" \ "http://<archivematica-uri>/api/v2beta/package"
Starting a transfer using an relative path with a transfer source UUID:
curl -v POST \ -H "Authorization: ApiKey test:test" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d "{\ \"path\": \"$(echo -n 'd1184f7f-d755-4c8d-831a-a3793b88f760:/archivematica/archivematica-sampledata/SampleTransfers/DemoTransfer' | base64 -w 0)\", \ \"name\": \"demo_transfer_relative\", \ \"processing_config\": \"automated\", \ \"type\": \"standard\" \ }" \ "http://<archivematica-uri>/api/v2beta/package"