A work metadata & preview

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/wikisource-api/v1/work" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/wikisource-api/v1/work", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/wikisource-api/v1/work");
curl_setopt($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/wikisource-api/v1/work",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

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

{
    "data": {
        "work": {
            "url": "https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Gettysburg_Address",
            "title": "Gettysburg Address",
            "preview": "Gettysburg Address (1863), Nicolay draft\nGettysburg Address (1863), Hay draft\nGettysburg Address (1864), Everett copy\nGettysburg Address (1864), Bancroft copy\nGettysburg Address (1864), Bliss copy\nGettysburg Address (1922), inscribed on the southern interior wall at the Lincoln Memorial\n\n\n== Works about the Gettysburg Address ==\nInauguration of the Gettysburg Cemetery (1863), report in the Daily Illinois State Journal\n\n\n== See also ==\nGettysburg Oration, a speech given the same day as Lincoln's",
            "characters": 499,
            "description": "speech by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln"
        }
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T16:23:35.959Z",
        "request_id": "627f9b54-b86d-4ca5-950d-e9d74ac702de"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Work retrieved",
    "success": true
}