# IEEE Xplore Metadata Search API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/ieee/ieee-xplore-metadata-search-api/  
**Provider:** IEEE Xplore — https://apis.io/providers/ieee/  
**Base URL:** https://ieeexploreapi.ieee.org/api/v1/search/articles  
**Documentation:** https://developer.ieee.org/docs

IEEE Xplore Metadata Search API is one of 5 APIs that [IEEE Xplore](https://apis.io/providers/ieee/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include Science And Math, Scholarly Publishing, Engineering, Metadata, and Search. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation, a getting-started guide, and an API reference.

REST endpoint for querying and retrieving metadata records and abstracts for more than 6 million documents in IEEE Xplore, including journals, conference proceedings, standards, books, and courses. Supports simple text search, Boolean operators (AND, OR, NOT), and fielded searches across article title, author, abstract, affiliation, publication title, DOI, ISBN, ISSN, article number, index terms, and more. Results are returned as JSON (default) or XML with a maximum of 200 records per request and pagination via start_record. API key required in every request via the apikey query parameter.

## Machine-readable artifacts (7)

- **Documentation** — https://developer.ieee.org/docs
- **GettingStarted** — https://developer.ieee.org/getting_started
- **DeveloperPortal** — https://developer.ieee.org/
- **APIReference** — https://developer.ieee.org/docs/read/Searching_the_IEEE_Xplore_Metadata_API
- **SDKs** — https://developer.ieee.org/Python3_Software_Development_Kit
- **SDKs** — https://developer.ieee.org/Java_Software_Development_Kit
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ieee/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Other IEEE Xplore APIs (4)

- [IEEE Xplore DOI API](https://apis.io/apis/ieee/ieee-xplore-doi-api/)
- [IEEE Xplore Open Access API](https://apis.io/apis/ieee/ieee-xplore-open-access-api/)
- [IEEE Xplore Full-Text Access API](https://apis.io/apis/ieee/ieee-xplore-full-text-access-api/)
- [IEEE Xplore Metadata Search API](https://apis.io/apis/ieee/ieee-metadata-search-api/)

## Tags

Science And Math, Scholarly Publishing, Engineering, Metadata, Search

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