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Dryad

Dryad is a nonprofit open data publishing platform and repository that enables researchers to publish, preserve, and access research datasets. It provides a REST API for submitting, updating, and retrieving datasets associated with peer-reviewed publications in biology, ecology, and related disciplines.

Dryad publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including datasets API, files API, internal API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Research Data, Open Science, Data Repository, Datasets, and Biology.

The Dryad catalog on APIs.io includes 2 JSON-LD contexts and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Dryad’s developer surface includes authentication, pricing, engineering blog, GitHub presence, signup flow, and 8 more developer resources.

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48.9/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 44/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
AccessSelf serve
7 APIs
Research DataOpen ScienceData RepositoryDatasetsBiologyEcologyOpen Access

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6
Composite quality — 48.9/100 · developing
Contract Quality 17.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.6 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 7.0 / 12
Discoverability 7.4 / 10
Agent readiness — 44/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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 0 / 4
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APIs 7

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

Dryad datasets API

Dataset operations

Dryad files API

Operations on individual files of a dataset

Dryad internal API

Internal APIs not of general interest to the public

Dryad reports API

Reports on content in Dryad

Dryad root API

Root-level API calls

Dryad search API

Searching datasets

Dryad versions API

Operations on individual versions of a dataset

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Plans

4 plans

PLANS

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.

Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 2

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Api Context

29 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

context Context

29 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Dryad API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 44

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

Error

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Admin Values

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Author

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dataset

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dataset Links

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dataset Submission

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Datasets

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Dc Metadata

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Embargo

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Embedded Datasets

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Embedded Files

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Embedded Versions

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

File

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

File Links

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Files

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Funder

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Geolocation

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Geolocationbox

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Geolocationpoint

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hal Curie

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hal Dataset Links

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hal File Links

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hal Link

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hal Links

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hal Page Links

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hal Paged Response

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hal Self Link

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Hal Version Links

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Paging Counts

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Processor Result

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Processor Results

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Relatedwork

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Related Type

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Reports

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Root

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Root Links

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Simple Author

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Simple Version

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tenant

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Url

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Url Json

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Version

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Version Links

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Versions

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Examples 6

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

Delete Files Id Response 403

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Reports Name Response 404

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Reports Name Response 500

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Search Response 400

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Get Versions Id Download Response 404

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Patch Datasets Doi Response 403

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Dryad Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Dryad Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Dryad Agentic Access

25 operations · 9 acting

25 operations · 9 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Signup
Signup

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHub
GitHub

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 Authentication
Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact
Contact

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Pricing
Pricing

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog
 InstitutionalPartners
InstitutionalPartners
 PublisherPartners
PublisherPartners

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
name: Dryad
description: Dryad is a nonprofit open data publishing platform and repository that enables researchers to publish, preserve,
  and access research datasets. It provides a REST API for submitting, updating, and retrieving datasets associated with peer-reviewed
  publications in biology, ecology, and related disciplines.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://datadryad.org/images/logo.png
tags:
- Research Data
- Open Science
- Data Repository
- Datasets
- Biology
- Ecology
- Open Access
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specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: dryad:dryad-datasets-api
  name: Dryad datasets API
  description: Dataset operations
  humanURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  baseURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2
  tags:
  - datasets
  properties:
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    url: openapi/dryad-datasets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  - type: GitHubRepository
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  - type: SubmissionGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/submission.md
  - type: SearchGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/search.md
  - type: APIAccounts
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  - type: DatasetMetadata
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  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
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  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: Vocabulary
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- aid: dryad:dryad-files-api
  name: Dryad files API
  description: Operations on individual files of a dataset
  humanURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  baseURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2
  tags:
  - files
  properties:
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    url: openapi/dryad-files-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  - type: GitHubRepository
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  - type: SubmissionGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/submission.md
  - type: SearchGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/search.md
  - type: APIAccounts
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/api_accounts.md
  - type: DatasetMetadata
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/dataset_metadata.md
  - type: Plans
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  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
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  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONLDContext
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  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.json
- aid: dryad:dryad-internal-api
  name: Dryad internal API
  description: Internal APIs not of general interest to the public
  humanURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  baseURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2
  tags:
  - internal
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dryad-internal-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app
  - type: SubmissionGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/submission.md
  - type: SearchGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/search.md
  - type: APIAccounts
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/api_accounts.md
  - type: DatasetMetadata
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/dataset_metadata.md
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/json-schema/
  - type: JSONLDContext
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  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.json
- aid: dryad:dryad-reports-api
  name: Dryad reports API
  description: Reports on content in Dryad
  humanURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  baseURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2
  tags:
  - reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dryad-reports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app
  - type: SubmissionGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/submission.md
  - type: SearchGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/search.md
  - type: APIAccounts
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/api_accounts.md
  - type: DatasetMetadata
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/dataset_metadata.md
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONLDContext
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  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.json
- aid: dryad:dryad-root-api
  name: Dryad root API
  description: Root-level API calls
  humanURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  baseURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2
  tags:
  - root
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dryad-root-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app
  - type: SubmissionGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/submission.md
  - type: SearchGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/search.md
  - type: APIAccounts
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/api_accounts.md
  - type: DatasetMetadata
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/dataset_metadata.md
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
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  - type: JSONLDContext
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  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.json
- aid: dryad:dryad-search-api
  name: Dryad search API
  description: Searching datasets
  humanURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  baseURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2
  tags:
  - search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dryad-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app
  - type: SubmissionGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/submission.md
  - type: SearchGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/search.md
  - type: APIAccounts
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/api_accounts.md
  - type: DatasetMetadata
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/dataset_metadata.md
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/json-schema/
  - type: JSONLDContext
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/json-ld/context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.json
- aid: dryad:dryad-versions-api
  name: Dryad versions API
  description: Operations on individual versions of a dataset
  humanURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  baseURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2
  tags:
  - versions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/dryad-versions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  - type: GitHubRepository
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app
  - type: SubmissionGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/submission.md
  - type: SearchGuide
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/search.md
  - type: APIAccounts
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/api_accounts.md
  - type: DatasetMetadata
    url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/dataset_metadata.md
  - type: Plans
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/plans/plans.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/finops/finops.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/json-schema/
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    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/json-ld/context.jsonld
  - type: Vocabulary
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dryad/refs/heads/main/vocabulary/vocabulary.json
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/dryad-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dryad-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/dryad-authentication.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/documentation/apis/api_accounts.md
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://datadryad.org/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://datadryad.org/privacy
- type: Pricing
  url: https://datadryad.org/help/requirements/costs
- type: Contact
  url: https://datadryad.org/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.datadryad.org
- type: GitHub
  url: https://github.com/datadryad
- type: Signup
  url: https://datadryad.org/account
- type: InstitutionalPartners
  url: https://datadryad.org/institutions
- type: PublisherPartners
  url: https://datadryad.org/publishers
modified: '2026-06-13'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com