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Openalex Search Authors

Search OpenAlex authors via the /authors endpoint. Use this to discover Author IDs (A...) and then fetch details with openalex_get_author.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 88msCortexa

Status

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

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 88ms

Schema

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

{
  "properties": {
    "mailto": {
      "description": "Optional contact email for OpenAlex polite pool.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "page": {
      "default": 1,
      "description": "Page number (1-indexed).",
      "minimum": 1,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "per_page": {
      "default": 5,
      "description": "Results per page (OpenAlex max 200).",
      "maximum": 200,
      "minimum": 1,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "search": {
      "description": "Author name search query. Example: \"Yann LeCun\".",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "search"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default Openalex Search Authors call

public-safeinput

{
  "page": 1,
  "per_page": 1,
  "search": ""
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_openalex_search_authors
Tool name: openalex_search_authors
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

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