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GET /v1/meta

Usage notes

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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/metabolights-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/metabolights-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/metabolights-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/metabolights-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "Open metabolomics studies archive. MetaboLights is the world's premier repository for metabolomics experiments (NMR & mass-spectrometry), a sister resource to PRIDE (proteomics). /v1/search?query=diabetes = search public studies (accession, title, description, organism, study type); /v1/study?id=MTBLS1 = a study's full metadata (title, abstract, status, submission & release dates, study-design descriptors, experimental factors, analytical assays with measurement & technology type and platform, contributors and roles, linked publications with DOI/PubMed, submitters, sample count, FTP download URL, data license); /v1/protocols?id=MTBLS1 = the analytical workflow — each protocol's name, type, description and parameters (sample collection, extraction, chromatography, NMR/MS spectroscopy, data transformation, metabolite identification); /v1/organisms?id=MTBLS1 = the organisms and organism parts studied with their ontology term. Study accessions look like MTBLS1. Data from EMBL-EBI MetaboLights. For proteomics datasets see the PRIDE API, for protein sequences UniProt, for biomedical literature Europe PMC.",
        "source": "EMBL-EBI MetaboLights REST API (ebi.ac.uk/metabolights)",
        "endpoints": [
            "/v1/search",
            "/v1/study",
            "/v1/protocols",
            "/v1/organisms",
            "/v1/meta"
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T08:13:28.008Z",
        "request_id": "9b406c8c-91dc-4db2-950c-e9f2a2a58acb"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}