Verified Sourcepaths · REST API

CORE works search API

degraded

Publisher
CORE / Open University
Human landing
https://core.ac.uk/documentation/api
Artifact URL
https://api.core.ac.uk/v3/search/works?q=test&limit=1
Auth
API key required
Rate limit
Keyless requests are rate-limited to HTTP 429. A free API key is required for usable access. The key is not held.

Evidence

open-access · scholarly-metadata

Publisher identity: CORE / Open University Artifact relationship: official domain Automated access: access unknown Integrity hash: not yet hashed Parseability: not applicable Effects: read Licensing: CORE API terms as published; index the URL, do not mirror full texts. Freshness: Sep 17, 2026, 7:10 PM PDT

Notes

Teaching case: anonymous GET returns a bare 429, not 401. Under classifyResponse that is degraded with automated_access inherited as unknown. No CORE key is stored. A stuck degraded row is the measured keyless reality, not a checker bug.

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