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 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Datasets API, Files API, Internal API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Research Data, Open Science, Research 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 15 more developer resources.

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44.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive open core · MIT Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 published contract

Research Data Open Science Research Repository Datasets Biology Ecology Open Access

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Research & Scholarship Management

BC-4780

datasets

POST /datasets PUT /datasets/{doi}

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 44.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.3 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 2.9 / 15

Access Clarity 7.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 10

Contract Governance 2.1 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 1.1 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 19.0 — up to +16.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 21.1 — up to +10.3 composite points
Access Clarity scores 52.6 — up to +9.5 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/dryad/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/dryad to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Higher Education and Research	standard	17.2 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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

OPEN COLLECTION

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Dryad API pricing

Not yet checked against Dryad's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Anonymous Access free	—
API Account (Authenticated) free	—
Institutional Partner API paid	—
Publisher / Journal Partner API paid	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

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

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Dryad

SLA

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 — jsonschema rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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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

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 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Releases

Releases

Contact

Contact

Commercial 6

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

FinOps

License

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Pricing

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

InstitutionalPartners

InstitutionalPartners

PublisherPartners

PublisherPartners

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

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.
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: MIT
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://datadryad.org/images/logo.png
tags:
- Research Data
- Open Science
- Research Repository
- Datasets
- Biology
- Ecology
- Open Access
tags_raw:
- Research Data
- Open Science
- Data Repository
- Datasets
- Biology
- Ecology
- Open Access
- Research Repository
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specificationVersion: '0.23'
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  baseURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2
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  name: Dryad Files API
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  baseURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2
  tags:
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  - type: APIAccounts
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  name: Dryad Internal API
  description: Internal APIs not of general interest to the public
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  baseURL: https://datadryad.org/api/v2
  tags:
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  - internal
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- 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
  tags_raw:
  - reports
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  - type: Documentation
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  - type: GitHubRepository
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- 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
  tags_raw:
  - root
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    url: openapi/dryad-root-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://datadryad.org/api/v2/docs
  - type: GitHubRepository
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  - type: SearchGuide
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  - type: APIAccounts
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- 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
  tags_raw:
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  properties:
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    url: openapi/dryad-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
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- 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
  tags_raw:
  - versions
  properties:
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    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
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  - type: APIAccounts
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common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/plans.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.datadryad.org/
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/dryad-capability-edges.yml
  name: Dryad Business Capability Map
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/releases
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/datadryad/dryad-app/blob/main/LICENSE
- 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

Dryad API — frequently asked questions

Does Dryad have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 7 APIs from Dryad, including Dryad Datasets API, Dryad Files API and Dryad Internal API, and 4 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Dryad API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 7 OpenAPI specifications for Dryad, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Dryad API?

Dryad uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Dryad Authentication.

How much does the Dryad API cost?

APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for Dryad, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Dryad API ready for AI agents?

Dryad has a Kin Score of 44.8 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 31.0 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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Tools for providers

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find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

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Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/dryad/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/dryad/evidence"

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