Making Your First Request
Our interactive API Reference allows you to try the EBSCOhost Entitlement API endpoint. It is available to help you to make your first request and test the various parameters. For the endpoint, the interactive documentation provides you with the following:
- URL
- Description
- Parameter list
- Ability to try each endpoint with different parameters
- Ability to see the response to a specified request
- Code Samples in several languages. The code samples provided reflect the parameters entered into the reference parameter fields.
Interact with the endpoint and see the responses that you can expect back from EBSCOhost Entitlement API. For the endpoint in our API Reference, the description, recent requests, parameters and response variations are displayed under the URL. The code samples and actual response are displayed in the right hand column. Explore the EBSCOhost Entitlement API endpoint by following the sequence of steps below.
Use the API Reference
- Navigate to the EBSCOhost Entitlement API Reference. The EBSCOhost Entitlement API Reference endpoint can be found in the left hand menu. The details for the Get Full Text Links endpoint are displayed in the middle column.
- Click on Get Full Text Links V3 in the left hand menu.
- Click on the EXAMPLES button in the RESPONSE section of the right hand column.
- Click on the 200 in the drop down to see a successful example response.
- Click on a language in the LANGUAGE section to see a code sample using the endpoint.
- Enter your application's client id and client secret in the id and secret fields in the CREDENTIALS section.
- Click the Authorize button.
- Enter your profile in the profile field found in the PATH PARAMS section.
- Enter the desired DOI in the doi field found in the QUERY PARAMS section.
- Enter the token, origin of the incoming link and the referring url in the token, Link-Origin, and Referer fields found in the HEADERS section.
- Click the Try It! button. The API reference makes a request to the EBSCOhost Entitlement API with your desired parameters. The response is displayed in the RESPONSE section to the right.
The /ehostentitlments/v3/{profile}/discovery allows you to use a digital object identifier to get access to full text links.
Updated 13 days ago