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OpenAlex on looot

OpenAlex gives your agent 4 jobs through looot: search research works openalex, search research authors openalex, get research works openalex and 1 more job. 4 endpoints run today, some of them free.

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Category: Other
Access: No key needed: these endpoints are open, looot calls them for you
Price: some of them free
Jobs: 4 jobs, 4 endpoints

Choose OpenAlex when

You need to search research works openalex: OpenAlex is the only provider on looot that runs this job today.
You need to search research authors openalex: OpenAlex is the only provider on looot that runs this job today.
You need to get research works openalex: OpenAlex is the only provider on looot that runs this job today.
You need to search research institutions openalex: OpenAlex is the only provider on looot that runs this job today.
You want to start without any key: some of its endpoints are open and looot calls them for you.

Endpoints and jobs

Each endpoint runs through looot today. Where a job has a benchmark page, its link compares every provider on that job.

Search scholarly works
research.works.openalex.search
free
92.9% of 14 runs without an error, median 645 ms
Search authors (researchers)
research.authors.openalex.search
free
72.7% of 11 runs without an error, median 735 ms
One work by OpenAlex id or DOI
research.works.openalex.get
free
not enough runs to rank
Search research institutions
research.institutions.openalex.search
free
not enough runs to rank

A minimal request

For Search scholarly works (openalex-works-search), free. Replace each <placeholder> with your value and send a new idempotency key per run.

MCP

Call the looot MCP tool "run" with:
{
  "endpointId": "openalex-works-search",
  "input": {},
  "idempotencyKey": "<a new id per run>"
}

REST

curl -X POST https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"openalex-works-search","input":{},"idempotencyKey":"<a new id per run>"}'

CLI

looot run openalex-works-search --input '{}'

Response shape

looot has no stored output format for this endpoint yet, so no response shape is shown here. Run it once and read the answer.

How we measure

Run numbers are looot's own runs of each endpoint over the last 30 days: the share that completed without an error, and the median time to answer. An endpoint with fewer than 10 runs in that window shows "not enough runs to rank" and is never ranked. Prices are what looot charges per call or per result, fee included, read from the live catalog; you prepay credit and each call is charged when it runs.

Read 2026-11-10 23:06 UTC.

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