OpenAlex

📸 Real response, captured by us

Not a mockup — this is what OpenAlex actually returned when we verified it on 23 Oct 2026 (in 691 ms).

{
  "id": "https://openalex.org/W4289253527",
  "doi": "https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170",
  "title": "Measured measurement",
  "display_name": "Measured measurement",
  "publication_year": 2009,
  "publication_date": "2009-01-01",
  "ids": {
    "openalex": "https://openalex.org/W4289253527",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170"
  },
  "language": "en",
  "primary_location": {
    "id": "doi:10.1038/nphys1170",
    "doi": "https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170",
    "is_oa": false,
    "landing_page_url": "https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170",
    "pdf_url": null,
    "source": {
      "id": "https://openalex.org/S156274416",
      "display_name": "Nature Physics",
      "issn_l": "174

💻 Copy-paste code

Three ways to call OpenAlex — pick your weapon.

// OpenAlex — no build step, no library. Just fetch.
const res = await fetch("https://api.openalex.org/works/https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

# OpenAlex with Python requests
import requests

r = requests.get("https://api.openalex.org/works/https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170")
print(r.status_code)
print(r.json())

# OpenAlex from your terminal
curl "https://api.openalex.org/works/https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1170"

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