Academic Paper Search (OpenAlex)

Search 240M+ scholarly works using the OpenAlex API -- completely free, no API key required, no SDK needed. Just curl or bash with URL construction.

Full docs: https://docs.openalex.org

Quick Start

OpenAlex is a REST API. You query it by constructing URLs and fetching them with curl. All responses are JSON.

# Search for papers about "transformer architecture"
curl -s "https://api.openalex.org/works?search=transformer+architecture&per_page=5&mailto=agent@kortix.ai" | python3 -m json.tool

Important: Always include mailto=agent@kortix.ai (or any valid email) in every request. Without it, you're limited to 1 request/second. With it, you get 10 requests/second (the "polite pool").

Core Concepts