GET /patrons – REST API

List Patrons: GET /patrons

Retrieve a list of all existing patrons on your site. Returns 50 patrons at a time.

URL Parameters

  • page: The page number we want to return. If there are 500 patrons, there would be 10 pages (500/50 = 10).

JSON Result Details

  • total: Total number of patrons on the account.
  • pages: Total number of pages.
  • max_per_page: How many patrons are displayed per page – currently this is hard set at 50.
  • patrons: A list of each patron’s data.
<?php
$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, array(
  // We can paginate by using the ?page=X option
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.libib.com/patrons?page=1",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT => 5,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 15,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
  CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER => array(
    "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY",
    "x-api-user: YOUR_API_USER"
  ),
));

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  $obj = json_decode($response);
}
{
    "total": 2, // Total number of patrons found
    "pages": 1, // How may pages of patrons exist         
    "max_per_page": 50 // Number of patrons displayed per page
    "patrons": [
        {
            "barcode": "2020000000013",
            "first_name": "Mary",
            "last_name": "Shelley",
            "email": "frankenstein@example.com",
            "notification_emails": null,
            "tags": null,
            "patron_id": "mshelley",
            "phone": "555-123-4567",
            "address1": null,
            "address2": null,
            "city": "Augusta",
            "state": "KS",
            "country": "US",
            "zip": null,
            "freeze": null
        },
        {
            "barcode": "2020000000037",
            "first_name": "Marcus",
            "last_name": "Aurelius",
            "email": "meditiations@example.com",
            "notification_emails": null,
            "tags": null,
            "patron_id": null,
            "phone": null,
            "address1": null,
            "address2": null,
            "city": null,
            "state": null,
            "country": "US",
            "zip": null,
            "freeze": 1
        }
    ]
}
Updated on March 10, 2024
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