Documentation

The Knowledge Services Open API provides easy programmatic access to metadata records on tens of thousands of thematically organised global development research documents – curated by two of our online knowledge services, Eldis and Bridge.

Via the API, this research meta data can be harvestedrepurposed, contextualised and combined to develop new services and applications.

In this section you will find information on:

The data

How the data is organised. The metadata is divided into two collections containing different asset and category types.

Calling the API

How to build URL strings to search, get and count records.