# OpenAlex

OpenAlex is an open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and related research metadata.

Category: Data. Connect from any Rakazo bot at https://rakazo.com/integrations/openalex/.

## Actions

- **Add Collection Entities**: Bulk-add one or more matching OpenAlex entity IDs to an owned collection without duplicating existing memberships.
- **Autocomplete Entities** (read-only): Resolve a partial name or title to likely OpenAlex entity IDs before filtering or retrieving metadata.
- **Create Collection**: Create a private, single-entity-type OpenAlex collection, optionally with an initial bounded set of entity IDs.
- **Delete Collection**: Permanently delete exactly one owned private OpenAlex collection and all of its collection memberships.
- **Download Work Content** (read-only): Download an OpenAlex-cached PDF or gzipped GROBID TEI file for a work.
- **Get Collection** (read-only): Get metadata for one private OpenAlex collection owned by the connected user.
- **Get Metadata Entity** (read-only): Retrieve one OpenAlex work, author, source, institution, topic, keyword, publisher, funder, award, taxonomy item, country, continent, or…
- **Get Rate Limit Status** (read-only): Validate the connected OpenAlex API key and inspect daily budget, prepaid balance, reset timing, and current endpoint costs before…
- **List Collection Entities** (read-only): List one page of entity IDs in an owned private collection together with collection metadata and page totals.
- **List My Collections** (read-only): List private OpenAlex collections owned by the connected API-key user, optionally finding collections that contain an entity.
- **Query Metadata Entities** (read-only): Search, filter, sort, sample, select, or group one OpenAlex metadata resource other than works, including authors, venues, organizations,…
- **Query Works** (read-only): Search, filter, sort, sample, select, or group scholarly works.
- **Remove Collection Entities**: Bulk-remove one or more entity memberships from an owned private OpenAlex collection without deleting the underlying OpenAlex entities.
- **Update Collection**: Update a private collection's name or description, or change its entity type while the collection is empty.