# Dryad

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/dryad/  
**APIs profiled:** 7

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.

## Kin Score — 47.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 47.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 65.3 |
| Governance | 9.8 |
| Contract Governance | 9.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 84.2 |
| Access Clarity | 84.2 |

## Agent readiness — 41.9 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | verified |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (7)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Dryad Agentic Access** — 25 operations · 9 acting

## Security (2)

- **Dryad Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Dryad Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Plans**

## Tags

Research Data, Open Science, Data Repository, Datasets, Biology, Ecology, Open Access

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/dryad/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.