OpenAlex Works REST API
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- Publisher
- OurResearch (OpenAlex)
- Human landing
- https://help.openalex.org/
- Artifact URL
https://api.openalex.org/works
- Auth
- API key optional
- Rate limit
- Usage-based daily budget: $0.10/day keyless, $1/day with a free key; more than 100 requests per second, or exhausting the daily budget, returns 429. The key is optional and may be passed as ?api_key= or a Bearer token.
Evidence
Publisher identity: OurResearch (OpenAlex) Artifact relationship: official domain Automated access: plain GET succeeded Integrity hash: not yet hashed Parseability: valid Effects: read Licensing: CC0 for OpenAlex data; text fields passed through from external sources. Freshness: Sep 17, 2026, 7:10 PM PDT
Notes
Keyless GET /works returns 200. A key raises the daily budget; it is not required for a plain GET. No OpenAlex key is stored. Result sets change every fetch, so the checker omits content_hash.
Tasks this artifact can answer
- find scholarly works by topic, author, institution, or year
- resolve a DOI to open-access status and metadata
- page through large result sets with cursor paging
Change history
- healthy · HTTP 200 · content_hash omitted: live query endpoint
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- healthy · HTTP 200 · content_hash omitted: live query endpoint
- healthy · HTTP 200 · content_hash omitted: live query endpoint
- healthy · HTTP 200 · content_hash omitted: live query endpoint
- healthy · HTTP 200 · content_hash omitted: live query endpoint
- healthy · HTTP 200 · content_hash omitted: live query endpoint
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- healthy · HTTP 200