Request Types

Overview

FAST has four request types you can use to access the API

• Linking by FAST Identifier
• AutoSuggest
• OpenSearch
• SRU

Linking by FAST Identifier

To link to a resource using the FAST identifier, a call should use the following URL pattern:

http://id.worldcat.org/fast/{identifier}/{format}.xml

where identifier is the requested identifier and format is either HTML, RDF, or MARC21.

AutoSuggest

To complete an autosuggest search, plese use the following URL pattern:

http://fast.oclc.org/searchfast/fastsuggest?query={query}&fl={facet}&rows={rows}&wt=json&json.wrf={callback}

where each query parameter is defined as follows:

Facets that can be searched

OpenSearch

To complete an open search call against the API, please use the following URL pattern:

http://fast.oclc.org/fast/search?query=cql.any+all+%22{query}%22&httpAccept={httpAccept}&maximumRecords={rows}&startRecord={startRecord}&sortKey={sortKey}

where each query parameter is defined as follows:

SRU

To complete a SRU call against the API, please use the following URL pattern:

http://id.worldcat.org/fast/search?query=cql.any+all+%22{query}%22&httpAccept={httpAccept}&maximumRecords={rows}&startRecord={startRecord}&sortKey={sortKey}

Where the query parameter are the same as above except that {query} is a SRU query as part of the OpenSearch query. SRU offers the following indexes (for a complete listing consult http://id.worldcat.org/fast/search):