I'm no longer working at a Primo institution (yay!) but I did write this little tool when I was at UW that uses the PNX api to do an exact query search for MMS IDs. That might give you some insights to working with the API.
https://bitbucket.org/uwlib/mms_to_primo_permalink
My memory suggests that to work with the PNX api and others, you had to file a support request to activate them. I'd recommend doing that anyhow just in case you have any legacy hosted installation that never got shifted over.
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From: Code for Libraries [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brian Meuse
Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 9:44 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Experience with Primo API
Hi,
I have limited Primo knowledge, but I shared your post with a colleague who does and he suggested checking this:
https://knowledge.exlibrisgroup.com/Primo/Knowledge_Articles/Must_Workstation_IP_be_Added_to_WS_and_XS_IP_Mapping_Table_in_Order_to_Test_Primo_Web_Services%3F
On Fri, Dec 15, 2017 at 10:51 PM, Kluck, Chad L. <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> We're wondering if anyone has experience, and documentation, with the
> Primo API. We have so far developed with the Alma API and other APIs
> so I'm not asking about API GET/POST/PUT requests or CURL. However,
> since the Primo API for some of the search is listed as "Under
> Construction" it is harder to work our way around what we should expect for received data.
>
>
> We submitted a support case for some help from Ex Libris, but if
> anyone has a repository, or some docs that would help. We're basically
> trying to do regular search queries, like feed
> q=any,contains,immortality%20kundera
> (see below)
>
>
> We saw in the Code4Lib archive that the Primo API was IP restricted
> back in 2014, but was wondering if that is still the case.
>
>
> Submitted to Ex Libris Sales Force
>
> Case Title: API for Primo - known item searches
> Description:
> We need help getting a functioning query with the Primo API. Our use
> case is that we are working with a company to develop a chatbot which
> can take a natural language query, get a list of results from Primo
> via API (using author or title search), and check our holdings and
> availability and let the user know if it is available and make a
> request. The second part seems to be accomplished via the Bibs API,
> but getting the MMS IDs of a set of results from a Primo search seems
> to require the Primo API. We have not been able to get results from our test queries.
>
> We have the API key set up for our API application StthomasAI with
> permissions to use the Primo Search (under const.) API. We have tried
> using both Brief Search and Delivery Service Search but are not having luck.
>
> For example:
> https://api-eu.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/primo/v1/search?vid=STTHOMAS&t
> ab= default_tab&scope=stthomas&q=any%2Ccontains%2Cimmortality%
> 20kundera&lang=eng&offset=0&limit=10&sort=rank&pcAvailability=true&con
> Voc=
> true&apikey=[*************]
>
>
> Thanks!<https://na01.safelinks.protection.outlook.
> com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi-eu.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com%
> 2Fprimo%2Fv1%2Fsearch%3Fvid%3DSTTHOMAS%26tab%3Ddefault_
> tab%26scope%3Dstthomas%26q%3Dany%252Ccontains%252Cimmortality%2520kund
> era% 26lang%3Deng%26offset%3D0%26limit%3D10%26sort%3Drank%
> 26pcAvailability%3Dtrue%26conVoc%3Dtrue%26apikey%
> 3Dl7xx95e1392be88248b4938710ae279a414d&data=02%7C01%
> 7Cclkluck%40stthomas.edu%7C515ce934bafa40bfbef608d543104819%
> 7Ca081ff79318c45ec95f338ebc2801472%7C1%7C0%7C636488659564215396&sdata=
> 9hPnbkelNXwLgH7ASASrCbItNzWx%2F2cK3Hml0J9LjwI%3D&reserved=0>
>
>
> -Chad
>
> Chad L. Kluck
> Web Developer
> University of St. Thomas Libraries
> (651) 962-5416
>
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