# OpenAlex Scholarly Works Search

> OpenAlex Scholarly Works Search is a paid API for AI agents from clonecho.builda.company, paid per call via x402, $0.02/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Searches the OpenAlex database of scholarly works by keyword, returning titles and publication years as JSON.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://clonecho.builda.company/x402/s/openalex-works
- Price: $0.02/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/openalex-scholarly-works-search-c6132c38
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_6dAgSZJAe1mCia-vByMu7

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability openalex-scholarly-works-search-c6132c38 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Can you search OpenAlex for scholarly works about quantum computing and show me the titles and years they were published?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to quickly search open scholarly literature by keyword and retrieve titles with publication years. It is ideal for agents that need to discover relevant academic papers on a topic without needing full citation metadata or abstracts. It is backed by OpenAlex, a comprehensive open-access index of research works.

## Known failure modes

- Missing or empty q parameter returns an error or empty result set
- Very broad queries may return a large or truncated result set
- Highly specific or uncommon queries may return no results
- Network or upstream OpenAlex API outage causes 5xx error
- Payment not processed causes 402 response blocking the call

## How this service works

Searches OpenAlex scholarly works for q, returning titles and publication years. Query: ?q= Returns JSON.

## Output

A JSON array of scholarly works matching the query, each containing the paper title and its publication year, sourced from the OpenAlex open scholarly graph.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/openalex-scholarly-works-search-c6132c38/health.json
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