Dryad Search Datasets

Overview

Search the Dryad open research data repository for published datasets. Dryad is a curated, general-purpose repository that makes research data discoverable, freely reusable, and citable. It hosts datasets across all scientific disciplines, with strong coverage in ecology, evolutionary biology, genetics, and life sciences. Returns dataset identifiers, titles, authors, abstracts, storage sizes, and related publication ISSNs. Use this to find openly available research datasets by keyword, then use Dryad_get_dataset for full metadata.

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed

1d ago

Last success

1d ago

Last latency

102ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "properties": {
    "page": {
      "description": "Page number for pagination (starts at 1)",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "per_page": {
      "description": "Number of results per page (default 10, max 100)",
      "type": [
        "integer",
        "null"
      ]
    },
    "q": {
      "description": "Search query string for dataset title, abstract, or author (e.g., 'climate change', 'CRISPR gene editing', 'protein structure')",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "q"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

{
  "q": ""
}

Identifiers

Catalog ID

tu_Dryad_search_datasets

Tool name

Dryad_search_datasets

Added

2026-04-30 22:47Z

Tags

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