Get a publication’s details

Get a specific publication’s summary details.

The URL for this endpoint is:

GET https://dev.statistics.api.education.gov.uk/api/v{version}/publications/{publicationId}

Parameters

Path parameters

The following parameters will need to be substituted into the URL path.

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
publicationId	string	true	The ID of the publication.
version	string	true	The requested API version Defaults to: 1.0

Example request

To illustrate how to use this API endpoint, we have provided some samples below in various languages.

cURL

curl -X GET https://dev.statistics.api.education.gov.uk/api/v{version}/publications/{publicationId}

JavaScript

const url = 'https://dev.statistics.api.education.gov.uk/api/v{version}/publications/{publicationId}';

const response = await fetch(url, {
  method: 'GET',
});

console.log(response.json());

Python

import requests

url = 'https://dev.statistics.api.education.gov.uk/api/v{version}/publications/{publicationId}'

response = requests.get(url)

print(response.text)

R

library(httr)

url <- "https://dev.statistics.api.education.gov.uk/api/v{version}/publications/{publicationId}"

response <- GET(url)

output <- content(response)

Responses

Status	Description	Media Type	Schema
200	The requested publication summary.	application/json	PublicationSummaryViewModel
404	Not Found	application/json	ProblemDetailsViewModel

Example successful response

{
  "id": "d851c09e-7f5a-4750-9191-ed67ba5e8f8b",
  "title": "Pupil absence in schools in England",
  "slug": "pupil-absence-in-schools-in-england",
  "summary": "Summary of the publication.",
  "lastPublished": "2024-06-01T09:30:00+00:00"
}