unpaywall-api
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Audited by Gen Agent Trust Hub on Jun 22, 2026
Risk Level: SAFEEXTERNAL_DOWNLOADSCOMMAND_EXECUTION
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- [EXTERNAL_DOWNLOADS]: The skill fetches academic paper metadata from
api.unpaywall.org. This is a well-known non-profit service (OurResearch) used extensively in the research community for identifying open-access scholarly work. - [COMMAND_EXECUTION]: Documentation provides examples using standard command-line tools
curlandjq. These are used for network requests to official API endpoints and structured JSON parsing, respectively. - [SAFE]: The skill correctly manages user identification by requiring the
UNPAYWALL_EMAILenvironment variable, avoiding hardcoded credentials and adhering to standard API authentication practices.
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