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Crossref DOI & Academic Metadata Scraper

Crossref DOI & Academic Metadata Scraper

Look up DOIs and search 150M+ scholarly works via the official Crossref API: titles, authors, publishers, journals, open-access, funders.

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Look up DOIs and search 150M+ scholarly works via the official Crossref API: titles, authors, publishers, journals, open-access, funders. Keyless.

Crossref

What it does

Crossref is the official DOI registration agency for scholarly publishing — the authoritative metadata registry behind almost every academic citation. This actor reads it for clean, reliable, keyless academic metadata.

Modes

ModeWhat it returns
searchSearch 150M+ works by keyword, get rich metadata
doiLook up a single work by full DOI

Example Inputs

Search machine-learning papers

{ "mode": "search", "query": "machine learning", "maxResults": 20 }

Look up a specific DOI

{ "mode": "doi", "query": "10.1038/nature14539" }

Output

Per work: doi, title, type, authors, publisher, journal, published_year, volume, issue, pages, url, references_count, open_access, license_url, funder, scraped_at.

Use Cases

  • Citation resolution: DOI → full metadata
  • Bibliography building: structured reference data
  • Publisher / journal analysis: output by venue
  • Open-access tracking: license and OA status

Data Source

Crossref API — free, keyless, authoritative.

Limitations

  • Metadata completeness varies by publisher
  • Some select fields (license/funder) missing on older records