openalex.org API: get_work
openalex.org via Parse · education
Retrieve full metadata for a single academic work by its OpenAlex ID. Returns the reconstructed abstract, topics, concepts, referenced and related works, citation counts by year, bibliographic details, and open-access information. Accepts either a bare ID (W2741809807) or a full URL (https://openalex.org/W2741809807). Search and retrieve academic works (papers, articles, books, etc.) from OpenAlex, an open catalog of the global research system with over 250 million works. Fulfilled by Parse from openalex.org.
- education
- government-public
- news-media
- openalex-org
- parse
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Price and execution
- Price
- $0.02 USD credits / call
- Trust tier
- Verified
- Execution
- Managed call
- Capability group
- education
Interface snapshot
- Protocol
- HTTP operation
- Operation
- GET /scraper/937ce615-9fb8-4b29-9107-8348a1d9f1fe/get_work
- Interface artifact
- sha256:cdfb8f2a2916b6902ed7afc9200ad00bbf7a00b2a1004392a5f421c07d0ec884
- Manifest digest
- sha256:76b4e0f75162dbc1662fa0e81609a4fbf84eafc87ebf6295fc5fa265427dcae5
Request fields
- work_id (string, required): OpenAlex work ID (e.g., 'W2741809807' or full URL 'https://openalex.org/W2741809807').
Example queries
- {"work_id":"https://openalex.org/W3118608800"}