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🇫🇷 BnF Gallica ~ digitized heritage & IIIF images API

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Search 7M+ digitised documents and fetch high-resolution IIIF images from France's national library; keyless.

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curl 'https://gallica.bnf.fr'

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API: BnF Gallica ~ digitized heritage & IIIF images API
Provider: Bibliothèque nationale de France
Endpoint: GET https://gallica.bnf.fr
It returns JSON.

Source: Bibliothèque nationale de France (https://api.bnf.fr/)
Source type: Official open-data catalogue
Endpoint type: Open-data catalogue JSON
Integration difficulty: Copy-paste ready
Last checked: 2026-07-05
Production caveat: Still handle empty rows, schema changes, pagination, stale coverage, and temporary upstream failures.

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