Publication document

Fetch the details of the original publication document for a work.

The original publication document is available for most works. This is the primary source document for the work, such as the official government gazette. It is always a PDF.

The original publication document is different to the PDF version of a work expression.

• The PDF version is a PDF version of the XML content of the document that is generated automatically.

• The publication document PDF is a copy of the original publication document, which may be a scanned PDF. It is usually only the original version of the document and does not contain amendment information.

Download the publication document for a work

The full URL to download the publication document is part of the publication_document field in the details of the work.

Download the media publication file for a work.

GET/v3/{frbr_uri}/media/publication/{filename}

Authorization

cookieAuthtokenAuth

Path parameters

filename*string

Pattern: ^.*$

frbr_uri*string

The FRBR URI of the work or work expression, without the first slash, such as akn/za/act/1994/2/

Response

200

Body

application/json

url*string (uri)

filenamestring

mime_type*string

size*integer

Request

JavaScriptCurlPython

const response = await fetch('/v3/{frbr_uri}/media/publication/{filename}', {
    method: 'GET',
    headers: {},
});
const data = await response.json();

Response

200

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "filename": "text",
  "mime_type": "text",
  "size": 0
}