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BnF Library Catalogue Search (France)

Search the French National Library (BnF) catalogue via the official SRU API. Get title, author, publisher, date, subjects and ARK identifiers. Free bibliographic data actor.

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Input

Field	Type	Description
`queries`	array of strings	Search terms, e.g. `"Albert Camus"`. One dataset item per matching record.
`searchField`	select	`title`, `author` or `anywhere`.
`maxRecords`	integer	Max records per query (default 20, max 200).

Output (example)

{
  "status": "found",
  "query": "Albert Camus",
  "title": "La Peste",
  "creator": "Camus, Albert (1913-1960)",
  "publisher": "Gallimard (Paris)",
  "date": "1947",
  "subjects": ["Roman"],
  "ark": "http://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb123456"
}

Each row carries a status field: found, not_found or error.

Use cases

Enrich a book database with authoritative BnF metadata and ARK permalinks.
Bibliographic and academic research on French publications.
Library catalogue reconciliation and authority matching.
Discover editions and holdings for a given author or title.

Limitations & fair use

Results come live from the public BnF SRU service; heavy use is rate-limited by a polite delay between requests. Metadata belongs to the BnF (open reuse under its conditions). This actor is free: you only pay your Apify platform usage.

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