{ "openapi": "3.1.0", "info": { "title": "Public library branch statistics, Queensland query API", "version": "2026-07-21", "summary": "Filter, page and aggregate Public library branch statistics, Queensland from State Library of Queensland.", "description": "The query API returns only the rows you ask for, as JSON, NDJSON or CSV, from the same typed rows as the files. It needs no key. The API allows 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Above that it answers 429 for 10 seconds with a `Retry-After` header, a `RateLimit-Policy` header and a JSON body that gives the limit. Every API answer carries the same `RateLimit-Policy`. A client should wait the `Retry-After` seconds, or read the files, which have no limit. Every JSON answer carries the version, licence and attribution. CSV and NDJSON answers carry them in response headers. State Library of Queensland has not endorsed this site. The whole site is described in https://publicdata.au/openapi.json.", "license": { "name": "CC BY 4.0", "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" } }, "servers": [ { "url": "https://publicdata.au" } ], "externalDocs": { "url": "https://publicdata.au/d/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/#query" }, "tags": [ { "name": "query" } ], "paths": { "/api/v1/datasets/qld-public-library-branch-statistics/rows": { "get": { "tags": [ "query" ], "summary": "Query Public library branch statistics, Queensland", "operationId": "queryRows_qld_public_library_branch_statistics", "description": "Rows of Public library branch statistics, Queensland in the newest loaded version, filtered and paged. Each filter is `field=operator.value` in the query string, and every filter must match. A number or date field compares as a number or date, and a text field compares as text. Values are case-sensitive except with `ilike`. Prefix `not.` to negate a filter, as `not.eq.value`. Operators: `eq.value`, `neq.value`, `gt.value`, `gte.value`, `lt.value`, `lte.value`, `like.*text*`, `ilike.*text*`, `in.(a,b,c)`, `is.null`.", "parameters": [ { "name": "council", "in": "query", "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "string.", "examples": [ "eq.Yarrabah Aboriginal Shire Council" ] }, { "name": "service", "in": "query", "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "string. IND is an independent council library service, RLQ a Rural Libraries Queensland council and IKC an Indigenous Knowledge Centre. Values: IKC, IND, RLQ.", "examples": [ "eq.RLQ" ] }, { "name": "branch_name", "in": "query", "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "string." }, { "name": "branch_year_of_opening", "in": "query", "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "integer. From 1929 to 2023.", "examples": [ "eq.2023" ] }, { "name": "branch_opening_hours_per_week", "in": "query", "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "string. Hours per week. 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Wait `Retry-After` seconds.", "headers": { "Retry-After": { "schema": { "type": "integer" }, "description": "Seconds until the block lifts." }, "RateLimit-Policy": { "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "The limit, as \"fair-use\";q=60;w=10." } }, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "error": { "type": "string" }, "status": { "type": "integer", "const": 429 }, "limit": { "type": "integer" }, "window_seconds": { "type": "integer" }, "block_seconds": { "type": "integer" }, "docs": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" }, "files": { "type": "string" } } } } } } } } }, "/api/v1/datasets/{slug}/versions/{version}/aggregate": { "get": { "tags": [ "query" ], "summary": "Counts, sums, averages, minimums and maximums by group", "operationId": "aggregateVersion", "description": "Groups and totals of any dataset in one dated version. Filters work as they do on rows. 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Values: IKC, IND, RLQ.", "examples": [ "eq.RLQ" ] }, { "name": "branch_name", "in": "query", "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "string." }, { "name": "branch_year_of_opening", "in": "query", "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "integer. From 1929 to 2023.", "examples": [ "eq.2023" ] }, { "name": "branch_opening_hours_per_week", "in": "query", "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "string. Hours per week. Kept as text because one row in the 2024/2025 file reads 50.5. with a trailing full stop.", "examples": [ "eq.9" ] }, { "name": "mobile_operating_hours_per_week", "in": "query", "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "number. Values: 12.65, 14.0, 16.0, 16.5, 22.0, 22.25, 25.0, 25.5, 26.25, 27.5, 29.5.", "examples": [ "eq.29.5" ] }, { "name": "mobile_stops_per_week", "in": "query", "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "number. 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Wait `Retry-After` seconds.", "headers": { "Retry-After": { "schema": { "type": "integer" }, "description": "Seconds until the block lifts." }, "RateLimit-Policy": { "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "The limit, as \"fair-use\";q=60;w=10." } }, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "error": { "type": "string" }, "status": { "type": "integer", "const": 429 }, "limit": { "type": "integer" }, "window_seconds": { "type": "integer" }, "block_seconds": { "type": "integer" }, "docs": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" }, "files": { "type": "string" } } } } } } } } }, "/api/v1/datasets/{slug}/versions": { "get": { "tags": [ "query" ], "summary": "The versions loaded for queries, newest first, with the URLs to query each", "operationId": "queryVersions", "parameters": [ { "name": "slug", "in": "path", "required": true, "schema": { "type": "string", "enum": [ "qld-public-library-branch-statistics" ] }, "description": "The dataset's slug, as in its page URL `/d//`." } ], "responses": { "200": { "description": "Loaded versions with row counts and URLs." }, "404": { "description": "The dataset or version is not loaded for queries." }, "429": { "description": "More than 60 requests in 10 seconds from one address. Blocked for 10 seconds. Wait `Retry-After` seconds.", "headers": { "Retry-After": { "schema": { "type": "integer" }, "description": "Seconds until the block lifts." }, "RateLimit-Policy": { "schema": { "type": "string" }, "description": "The limit, as \"fair-use\";q=60;w=10." } }, "content": { "application/json": { "schema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "error": { "type": "string" }, "status": { "type": "integer", "const": 429 }, "limit": { "type": "integer" }, "window_seconds": { "type": "integer" }, "block_seconds": { "type": "integer" }, "docs": { "type": "string", "format": "uri" }, "files": { "type": "string" } } } } } } } } } } }