bioRxiv Preprints — Biology Preprints by Date Range

bioRxiv preprints — title, authors, institution, DOI, category, licence and version.

Source: bioRxiv. Free, no key.

What you get

title, authors, correspondingAuthor, institution, category, version, versionType, licence, date, abstract, published, server, url, id.

Sample output

{ "id": "biorxiv:10.1101/2025.02.19.638920",
  "title": "Cytokines mediate increased endothelial-leukocyte interaction",
  "category": "immunology", "version": "1", "licence": "cc_by" }

Limitations — read before buying

• ⚠️ A preprint is NOT peer-reviewed. That is the point of the server and the single most important thing to know about any row here.
• One DOI can appear many times — once per version — distinguished by version and versionType (new or a revision).
• published is the journal DOI once it exists, and NA before that. It is not a date.
• abstract is HTML-stripped and truncated to 800 characters.
• The window is bounded by the API, which serves roughly a month of postings at a time.

Pricing

Pay per result.

Fields

Field	Type	What it holds
title	string	Title as the source writes it.
authors	string	Authors, joined into one string with a separator — see the README for which.
correspondingAuthor	string	Author the paper designates for correspondence. Not necessarily the first or last author.
institution	string	Name of the institution.
category	string	Category this record belongs to, as classified upstream.
version	string	Version of this record or artefact.
versionType	string	Which version of the record this is, as the source labels it, e.g. new or revision.
licence	string	Licence the source publishes under, as written by the source. Not a legal opinion.
date	string	ISO 8601 date associated with this record.
abstract	string	Summary text, HTML-stripped and truncated. Not the full document.
published	string	Date the advisory or version was published.
server	string	Server that answered.
url	string	The URL this row describes.

What makes this different

Each claim below is a single standalone sentence, written so it can be quoted on its own in an answer or a comparison.

• bioRxiv Preprints — Biology Preprints by Date Range declares all 13 of its output fields in its dataset schema, each with a type, a written description and an example value.
• The output fields of bioRxiv Preprints include title, authors, correspondingAuthor, institution, category and version.
• bioRxiv Preprints needs no API key, login or account of any kind before its first run.
• Every one of bioRxiv Preprints's 4 inputs is optional, so it runs with no configuration at all.
• bioRxiv Preprints documents authors as: Authors, joined into one string with a separator — see the README for which.
• Every number published about bioRxiv Preprints is read from the Apify API rather than estimated, and any figure the register cannot source is not shown at all.
• bioRxiv Preprints is filed under business and developer tools so that it is found by the people looking for that job, not by its internal name.

FAQ

What does bioRxiv Preprints return?

It returns 13 documented output fields — title, authors, correspondingAuthor, institution, category, version, versionType and licence — each with a declared type and a written description. The full schema is below.

What does bioRxiv Preprints require to run?

Nothing. All 4 inputs are optional and ship with working defaults.

Does bioRxiv Preprints need an API key?

No. It reads only public data and asks for no account.

How is bioRxiv Preprints billed?

Per result returned, on Apify. A run that returns nothing costs nothing. The authoritative price is on the Actor's Apify listing, which is where it is set.