Overview
SHARE is an open dataset API that aggregates metadata from hundreds of research repositories and academic publishers worldwide. You can search and retrieve information about scholarly works, authors, funding, and more without any authentication. It is ideal for building research discovery tools or analyzing academic output trends.
Beginner Tip
Use the search endpoint with a simple keyword in the q parameter to quickly find research papers; add filters like source or date to narrow results. The API follows the JSON API specification, so responses come back in a consistent nested structure.
Measurement Record
What actually happened when we called this API from our own infrastructure. Every value below was recorded by the request, not copied from the provider's documentation.
- Request
- GET https://share.osf.io/api/v2/sources/
- Result
- HTTP 200 · application/vnd.api+json · 3,332 bytes · compressed
- Response time
- 251 ms (median of 3) · fastest 236 ms
- Transport
- TLSv1.3 · TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 · certificate issued by Let's Encrypt
- Browser CORS
- Allowed — Access-Control-Allow-Origin: https://apisscore.com
- Served by
- nginx
- Recorded
- 2026-08-10
Fields Returned
Top-level fields present in the response we captured, with the type and value we actually received.
| Field | Type | Value received |
|---|---|---|
| type | string | Source |
| id | string | 1 |
| attributes | object | {1 fields} |
| relationships | object | {1 fields} |
| links | object | {1 fields} |
Captured Response
Captured from a real request to https://share.osf.io/api/v2/sources/ on 2026-08-10. Long arrays and nested objects are truncated to keep the shape readable.
{
"links": {
"next": "https://share.osf.io/api/v2/sources/?page%5Bcursor%5D=cD0xMA%3D%3D",
"prev": null
},
"data": [
{
"type": "Source",
"id": "1",
"attributes": {
"…": "(3 more fields)"
},
"relationships": {
"…": "(1 more fields)"
},
"links": {
"…": "(1 more fields)"
}
}
]
} Field Reference
data List of creative work objects matching the search query. Implementation Example
Calls a real endpoint of this API. Replace any placeholder credentials with your own key.
const url = "https://share.osf.io/api/v2/creativeworks/?q=climate+change&page[size]=5";
const response = await fetch(url);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${response.status}`);
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data); What Can You Build?
Note: These code examples are AI-generated and unverified. Always refer to the official API documentation for accurate usage.
How This API Fails
We deliberately sent this API a broken request and recorded exactly what came back on 2026-08-10. Knowing the shape of an error before you hit it makes error handling much easier to write.
{
"errors": [
{
"detail": "Invalid ID",
"status": "400",
"source": {
"pointer": "/data"
},
"code": "invalid"
}
]
} Common Errors & Troubleshooting
Generated guidance based on this API's documentation, not observed by us. Treat it as a starting point and check against the provider's own error reference.
Measured Score Breakdown
Live HTTP request to the API endpoint
Fully tested on Aug 10, 2026
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