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Scholar

by search.openverbs.com in Search & web

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Scholarly search API - academic papers and research articles for a query, powered by OpenAlex. Returns ranked works with title, authors, year, venue, DOI, citation count and open-access status. A google-scholar-style research / scholarly articles search for agents. Data source: OpenAlex (CC0).

POST https://search.openverbs.com/v1/scholar

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Response time
564 ms typical, 649 ms slowest 5%
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How to call it

POST https://search.openverbs.com/v1/scholar

Each call costs $0.006 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

POST https://search.openverbs.com/v1/scholar
content-type: application/json

{
  "limit": 1,
  "q": "example"
}

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
limitintegerNoMaximum papers to return. Defaults to 10.
qstringYesSearch query (topic, title words, author).

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

{
  "results": [
    {
      "authors": [
        "Fabian Pedregosa",
        "Gaël Varoquaux",
        "Alexandre Gramfort"
      ],
      "citations": 78542,
      "doi": "https://doi.org/10.5555/1953048.2078195",
      "openAccess": true,
      "rank": 1,
      "title": "Scikit-learn: Machine Learning in Python",
      "type": "article",
      "url": "https://jmlr.org/papers/v12/pedregosa11a.html",
      "venue": "Journal of Machine Learning Research",
      "year": 2011
    }
  ],
  "total": 6058246
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.006.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://search.openverbs.com/v1/scholar' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"limit":1,"q":"example"}'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - -X POST 'https://search.openverbs.com/v1/scholar' \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  --data-raw '{"limit":1,"q":"example"}' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.006 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.006" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.006 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsearch.openverbs.com%2Fv1%2Fscholar&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://search.openverbs.com/v1/scholar", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    "limit": 1,
    "q": "example"
  }),
});
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.006 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.006"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.post(
        "https://search.openverbs.com/v1/scholar",
        json={
            "limit": 1,
            "q": "example",
        },
    )
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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