OpenAlex
OpenAlex is an open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and related research metadata.
14 actionsAPI key
What your bot can do in OpenAlex
Looks up
- Autocomplete EntitiesResolve a partial name or title to likely OpenAlex entity IDs before filtering or retrieving metadata.
- Download Work ContentDownload an OpenAlex-cached PDF or gzipped GROBID TEI file for a work.
- Get CollectionGet metadata for one private OpenAlex collection owned by the connected user.
- Get Metadata EntityRetrieve one OpenAlex work, author, source, institution, topic, keyword, publisher, funder, award, taxonomy item, country, continent, or…
- Get Rate Limit StatusValidate the connected OpenAlex API key and inspect daily budget, prepaid balance, reset timing, and current endpoint costs before…
- List Collection EntitiesList one page of entity IDs in an owned private collection together with collection metadata and page totals.
- List My CollectionsList private OpenAlex collections owned by the connected API-key user, optionally finding collections that contain an entity.
- Query Metadata EntitiesSearch, filter, sort, sample, select, or group one OpenAlex metadata resource other than works, including authors, venues, organizations,…
- Query WorksSearch, filter, sort, sample, select, or group scholarly works.
Takes action
- Add Collection EntitiesBulk-add one or more matching OpenAlex entity IDs to an owned collection without duplicating existing memberships.
- Create CollectionCreate a private, single-entity-type OpenAlex collection, optionally with an initial bounded set of entity IDs.
- Delete CollectionPermanently delete exactly one owned private OpenAlex collection and all of its collection memberships.
- Remove Collection EntitiesBulk-remove one or more entity memberships from an owned private OpenAlex collection without deleting the underlying OpenAlex entities.
- Update CollectionUpdate a private collection's name or description, or change its entity type while the collection is empty.
