Retrieving error message based on submission details

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Is there a way to programmatically, via an API, obtain the error message XML associated with a deposit?

The xml I am trying to get appears in the crossref admin portal when querying submissions.

I see the API has a /deposits endpoint but there is a not that they will be deprecated soon, and it is not returning results, so I assume it has already happened. I guess what I am looking for is an alternative to this.

I am looking to build an internal tool that can show a user details of a deposit with errors so relying on going to the crossref admin pages is not a good solution for us. I guess I could build something to scape the page from the admin portal and get the data that way, but I am assuming there is a better way.

Thank you.

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Hello, and thanks for your post.

The API /deposits endpoint was never intended or supported for public use. It was built for an internal purpose and accidentally documented publicly.

The only supported endpoint for programatic deposits is
https://0-doi-crossref-org.library.alliant.edu/servlet/deposit via the HTTPs POST method as described here

That said, there is a way to programmatically query for your submission logs using either the filename or the doi_batch_id value of the submitted file. For that to work, the file name or doi_batch_id must be unique per deposit. Both options are described on our documentation site here.

They query looks like this
https://0-doi-crossref-org.library.alliant.edu/servlet/submissionDownload?usr={username}&pwd={password}&doi_batch_id={batch_id_value}&file_name={filename}&type=result

As always for our queries that require a username, if you use an individual email-based username, your organization’s ‘role’ username must be appended to it with a forward slash.

You only need either the file name or the doi_batch_id, but not both.

Best,
Shayn

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This is EXACTLY what I was looking for.

Thank you!

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