ERIC API (Institute of Education Sciences)

Use in your agent

Search the ERIC API for education literature records. Checked against the provider's documentation on Nov 6, 2026.

Access

• No key for the public api.ies.ed.gov/eric search endpoint.

Request

curl 'https://api.ies.ed.gov/eric/?search=maritime&rows=1&format=json'

Format

JSON with a response object carrying numFound and a docs array of ERIC records (numFound 387 for a 2026-11-05 query of "maritime").

Load into pandas and Parquet

Needs Python 3 with requests, pandas and pyarrow.

"""ERIC API search -> pandas -> Parquet. No key needed."""
import requests
import pandas as pd

URL = "https://api.ies.ed.gov/eric/"
params = {"search": "maritime", "rows": 100, "format": "json"}
r = requests.get(URL, params=params, timeout=60)
r.raise_for_status()
data = r.json()
docs = data.get("response", {}).get("docs", [])
df = pd.json_normalize(docs)
df.to_parquet("eric_maritime.parquet", index=False)
print(data.get("response", {}).get("numFound"), "total matches; saved", len(df), "records")

Run by us on 2026-11-05 (python 3 | pandas | pyarrow | requests). Result: ERIC API search for "maritime" returned HTTP 200 without a key on 2026-11-06: numFound 387 (JSON response.numFound).

Limits

• Not stated numeric rate limit on the checked pages.

Quirks

• Full texts, where linked, stay under their own authors'/publishers' copyright unless the work is a U.S. government public-domain document.

Terms and attribution

• ERIC copyright policy: "The authors or publishers retain copyright to these works, which are used by ERIC with permission."
• "ERIC does not retain copyright to the works indexed in the database and cannot grant permission to use indexed works under copyright protection."
• "Certain works, including documents, reports, and other materials authored by the U.S. government, reside in the public domain and may be freely distributed and copied."

Sources

• https://api.ies.ed.gov/eric/?search=maritime&rows=1&format=json: “"numFound": 387”
• https://eric.ed.gov/?copyright: “The authors or publishers retain copyright to these works, which are used by ERIC with permission.”
• https://eric.ed.gov/?copyright: “ERIC does not retain copyright to the works indexed in the database and cannot grant permission to use indexed works under copyright protection.”