Open Alex API

Name: Open Alex API
Availability: InStock

Open catalog of scholarly works and citations

🔑 Auth: None 🔒 HTTPS: Yes 🌐 CORS: Enabled View Documentation

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Server-measured technical metrics for the Open Alex API
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Server Latency	N/A
Hosting Server	Not disclosed
Content-Type	Not disclosed
Cache-Control	Not set
CORS Support	✅ Enabled — safe for browser fetch()
Authentication	✅ None required — call the API directly without a key
Category	Science & Math

Endpoint:: https://docs.openalex.org/

Quick Integration Code

✅ No API key needed

fetch("https://docs.openalex.org/")
  .then(response => {
    if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`HTTP ${response.status}`);
    return response.json();
  })
  .then(data => console.log(data))
  .catch(error => console.error("Request failed:", error));

import requests

url = "https://docs.openalex.org/"
headers = {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    # "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_TOKEN_HERE",
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=10)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()
print(data)

curl -X GET "https://docs.openalex.org/" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "User-Agent: MyApp/1.0" \
  --max-time 10 \
  --silent | python3 -m json.tool

Sample JSON Response — Science & Math

Science & Math

{
  "object": "near_earth_object",
  "id": "3542519",
  "name": "2010 PK9",
  "nasa_jpl_url": "https://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/tools/sbdb_lookup.html#/?sstr=3542519",
  "absolute_magnitude_h": 20.5,
  "is_potentially_hazardous_asteroid": false,
  "estimated_diameter": {
    "kilometers": {
      "min": 0.265,
      "max": 0.593
    }
  },
  "close_approach_data": [
    {
      "close_approach_date": "2025-03-10",
      "relative_velocity_kph": "42381.5",
      "miss_distance_km": "14520000"
    }
  ]
}