Programmatic access to the digitised collections and digitised newspapers of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz (SBB) is currently possible via two distinct APIs.
1. Digitised collections: OAI-PMH
Retrieval of metadata for objects in the digitised collections is established by use of the The Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) standard. A wide range of client applications for OAI-PMH in numerous programming languages are freely available on the web.
The base URL for the OAI-PMH endpoint of the digitised collections of the SBB is