bioRxiv

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory preprint server for biology providing a REST API for searching and accessing preprint metadata, full text, and category-filtered biological research. The API enables programmatic access to preprint and published article metadata from bioRxiv and medRxiv repositories.

bioRxiv publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Details API, Funder API, Pub API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Biology, Preprints, Research, Open Access, and Life Sciences.

The bioRxiv catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

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31.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessFree

7 APIs

BiologyPreprintsResearchOpen AccessLife SciencesScientific Publications

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 31.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.9 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 6.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.0 / 10

Discoverability 6.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

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APIs 7

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Examples 4

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Source (apis.yml)

name: bioRxiv
description: Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory preprint server for biology providing a REST API for searching and accessing preprint
  metadata, full text, and category-filtered biological research. The API enables programmatic access to preprint and published
  article metadata from bioRxiv and medRxiv repositories.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Free
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/biorxiv.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
version: '0.19'
created: '2026-06-13'
modified: '2026-06-13'
tags:
- Biology
- Preprints
- Research
- Open Access
- Life Sciences
- Scientific Publications
apis:
- aid: biorxiv:biorxiv-details-api
  name: bioRxiv Details API
  description: The Details API from bioRxiv — 2 operation(s) for details.
  humanURL: https://www.biorxiv.org/
  baseURL: https://api.biorxiv.org
  tags:
  - Details
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/biorxiv-details-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.biorxiv.org/
  - type: Plans
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  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: biorxiv:biorxiv-funder-api
  name: bioRxiv Funder API
  description: The Funder API from bioRxiv — 1 operation(s) for funder.
  humanURL: https://www.biorxiv.org/
  baseURL: https://api.biorxiv.org
  tags:
  - Funder
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/biorxiv-funder-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.biorxiv.org/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: biorxiv:biorxiv-pub-api
  name: bioRxiv Pub API
  description: The Pub API from bioRxiv — 1 operation(s) for pub.
  humanURL: https://www.biorxiv.org/
  baseURL: https://api.biorxiv.org
  tags:
  - Pub
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/biorxiv-pub-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.biorxiv.org/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: biorxiv:biorxiv-publisher-api
  name: bioRxiv Publisher API
  description: The Publisher API from bioRxiv — 1 operation(s) for publisher.
  humanURL: https://www.biorxiv.org/
  baseURL: https://api.biorxiv.org
  tags:
  - Publishers
  tags_raw:
  - Publisher
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/biorxiv-publisher-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.biorxiv.org/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: biorxiv:biorxiv-pubs-api
  name: bioRxiv Pubs API
  description: The Pubs API from bioRxiv — 2 operation(s) for pubs.
  humanURL: https://www.biorxiv.org/
  baseURL: https://api.biorxiv.org
  tags:
  - Pubs
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/biorxiv-pubs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.biorxiv.org/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: biorxiv:biorxiv-sum-api
  name: bioRxiv Sum API
  description: The Sum API from bioRxiv — 1 operation(s) for sum.
  humanURL: https://www.biorxiv.org/
  baseURL: https://api.biorxiv.org
  tags:
  - Sum
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/biorxiv-sum-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.biorxiv.org/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
- aid: biorxiv:biorxiv-usage-api
  name: bioRxiv Usage API
  description: The Usage API from bioRxiv — 1 operation(s) for usage.
  humanURL: https://www.biorxiv.org/
  baseURL: https://api.biorxiv.org
  tags:
  - Usage
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/biorxiv-usage-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.biorxiv.org/
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/biorxiv/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/biorxiv-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/biorxiv-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.biorxiv.org/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/about-biorxiv
- type: About
  url: https://www.biorxiv.org/about-biorxiv
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

bioRxiv

APIs 7

Open Collections 8

Pricing Plans 1

Rate Limits 1

FinOps 1

Semantic Vocabularies 1

Spectral Rules 1