# Royal Danish Library APIs

Cultural heritage REST and IIIF APIs for digitized books, historical newspapers, and images.

## Access profile

| Field | Value |
| --- | --- |
| Category | API |
| Sector | Media |
| Access type | Direct |
| Auth required | Public |
| Reliability | Stable |
| Official | Yes |
| Status | active |
| Agent can | read, search |

## Links

- Website: https://api.kb.dk
- Docs: https://api.kb.dk/data/
- Directory entry: https://agentaccess.dk/kb-api

## About

Det Kgl. Bibliotek (Royal Danish Library) offers programmable REST and IIIF image API interfaces for discovering Danish cultural heritage, digitized historical newspapers (Mediestream / Avisapi), manuscript archives, and bibliographical records.

## Agent use cases

- Search historical Danish newspaper articles and OCR text across centuries
- Retrieve high-resolution IIIF deep-zoom image tiles of cultural artifacts and maps
- Query the national bibliography (DanBib) metadata for Danish literary publications

## Notes

Public domain collections are openly accessible via REST/IIIF without authentication. Copyrighted materials in Mediestream require academic or institutional licensing.

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Source: [AgentAccess](https://agentaccess.dk/) — directory of agent interfaces for Denmark.