Academic Literature Search

research

Serving

Search scholarly literature via OpenAlex: works with metadata and abstracts. POST /v1/literature with a {query} and optional limit and get matching works as one JSON object. Deterministic per index vintage. Pay per request in USDC; no account, no API key.

Endpoint: POST https://test.agent.pocket.network/v1/literature-search
Price per call: $0.005 USD
Networks payable on: Base Sepolia (eip155:84532)
Protocol: rest

Calling it

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Example request

Derived from the published request schema.

curl -X POST https://test.agent.pocket.network/v1/literature-search \
  -H 'content-type: application/json' \
  -d '{"query":"aspirin","limit":0}'

Example response

This service declares its response shape in prose rather than as fields, so there is nothing more specific to sample.

{}

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EndpointRequest body

Supported methods

Methods the registry lists for this service. The portal forwards any call as sent; the supplier decides what it answers, and a delivered answer is settled.

Methods Academic Literature Search accepts, and whether each reads or writes.
Method	Effect
`GET /v1/health`	read
`GET /v1/version`	read
`POST /v1/literature`	read

Schemas

Published by the service itself. The example above is generated from these.

Request schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "A search over scholarly works.",
  "properties": {
    "query": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Search terms, e.g. aspirin."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "Maximum works to return."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "query"
  ]
}

Response schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "For POST /v1/literature, a JSON object with a `works` array (metadata and abstracts). The exact shape is the service's own and is not pinned here; errors return a JSON object with an `error` field, and the GET routes return their own small JSON documents."
}

Request body used in the example: { "query": "aspirin", "limit": 0 }