The public catalogue and edition metadata are available as UTF-8 JSON. Full browser reading documents are distributed as gzip-compressed JSON and identified explicitly as application/gzip.
Endpoints
/catalog.json— complete edition catalogue./api/works/{edition-id}.json— bibliographic metadata, provenance, citation, divisions and format links./works/tlg…/tlg…/local….json.gz— compressed reading document./api/index.json— machine-readable API description.
Versioning
This publication uses corpus release 2.2.0, dated 2026-08-29. CTS identifiers are the stable edition keys. The API schema has its own integer schemaVersion.
Reuse
Metadata access does not create a global licence for the texts. Consult the rights statement attached to each edition and the sources and rights policy.