CORE API

by core.ac.uk

Overview

Access the world's Open Access research papers

CORE is a science & math API from core.ac.uk. Requests are authenticated with an API key. It is served over HTTPS. Its OpenAPI description documents 18 endpoints.

At a glance

Authentication: API key
HTTPS: Yes
CORS: Unknown
Category: Science & Math
Base URL: http://core.ac.uk/api-v2
Version: 2.0
Endpoints: 18
OpenAPI: Specification ↗
Spec updated: 2019-07-22

Make a first request

Replace the placeholders; the documentation says exactly where credentials go.

cURL

curl -X GET "http://core.ac.uk/api-v2/articles/get/COREID" \
  -H "Accept: application/json" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

JavaScript

const response = await fetch("http://core.ac.uk/api-v2/articles/get/COREID", {
  method: "GET",
  headers: {
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
  },
});
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);

Python

import requests

response = requests.request(
    "GET",
    "http://core.ac.uk/api-v2/articles/get/COREID",
    headers={
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "X-API-Key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    },
    timeout=30,
)
print(response.json())

Endpoints

Method	Path	What it does
POST	`/articles/dedup`	Get all near duplicate articles
POST	`/articles/get`	Batch operation for retrieving articles by CORE ID
GET	`/articles/get/{coreId}`	Get article by CORE ID
GET	`/articles/get/{coreId}/download/pdf`	Get fulltext PDF by CORE ID
GET	`/articles/get/{coreId}/history`	Get article history by CORE ID
POST	`/articles/search`	Batch operation for search through articles
GET	`/articles/search/{query}`	Search through all documents
POST	`/articles/similar`	Get articles by similarity to a text
POST	`/journals/get`	Batch operation for retrieving journals by ISSN
GET	`/journals/get/{issn}`	Find journal by ISSN
POST	`/journals/search`	Batch operation for search through journals
GET	`/journals/search/{query}`	Search through journals
POST	`/repositories/get`	Batch operation for retrieving repositories by CORE repository ID
GET	`/repositories/get/{repositoryId}`	Get repository by CORE repository ID
POST	`/repositories/search`	Batch operation for searching through repositories
GET	`/repositories/search/{query}`	Search through all repositories
POST	`/search`	Batch operation for search through all resources
GET	`/search/{query}`	Search through all resources