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eLife Sciences API

eLife Sciences API — The eLife Sciences API provides access to various resou…

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eLife Sciences API exposes the eLife Sciences API provides access to various resources related to scientific articles, annotations, reports, and more. It allows users to retrieve, search, and manage scholarly content, emphasizing open access and public data sharing. We verified a keyless GET endpoint returning JSON (Development). Check the provider docs for rate limits and terms before production use.

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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
GET https://api.elifesciences.org/search

{
  "total": 21840,
  "items": [
    {
      "id": "f39cfcf5",
      "title": "Enabling the Contributor Roles Taxonomy for author contributions",
      "published": "2017-01-04T10:52:57Z",
      "type": "blog-article",
      "updated": "2017-04-26T12:46:06Z",
      "impactStatement": "We are pleased to announce the introduction of the Contributor Roles Taxonomy (CRediT) for author contributions at eLife."
    },
    {
      "id": "7ccd9e42",
      "title": "In technology: A summary of the Libero Community Sprint",
      "published": "2018-09-20T15:11:20Z",
      "type": "blog-article",
      "impactStatement": "Paul Shannon, eLife Head of Technology, reports on the outcomes from the Libero Community Sprint held in August 2018."
    }
  ],
  "types": {
    "correction": 367,
    "editorial": 38,
    "expression-concern": 0,
    "feature": 337,
    "insight": 1198,
    "research-advance": 505,
    "research-article": 14930,
    "research-communication": 68
  },
  "subjects": [
    {
      "id": "neuroscience",
      "name": "Neuroscience",
      "results": 6576
    },
    {
      "id": "cell-biology",
      "name": "Cell Biology",
      "results": 3383
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://api.elifesciences.org/search"
const res = await fetch("https://api.elifesciences.org/search");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://api.elifesciences.org/search")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 2On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /search awaits first probe
GET/searchPROBED

eLife Sciences API — The eLife Sciences API provides access to various resou…

GET/search?limit=5

Paginated variant with limit parameter.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

eLife Sciences API: common questions

Is eLife Sciences API free to use?

Yes — eLife Sciences API is a free developer tools API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does eLife Sciences API need an API key?

No — eLife Sciences API needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call eLife Sciences API from the browser?

Yes — eLife Sciences API returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is eLife Sciences API up right now?

eLife Sciences API is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.