# Figshare

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/figshare/  
**Website:** https://figshare.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 10

Figshare is a research data repository platform that enables researchers, institutions, and organizations to upload, manage, and publicly share scientific outputs including datasets, figures, media, papers, posters, and software. The platform provides persistent DOI assignment for all published research outputs, enabling proper citation and long-term discoverability. Figshare's REST API v2 allows programmatic access to articles, collections, projects, file uploads, statistics, and administrative functions. The platform is built on AWS infrastructure and supports both individual researchers with a free 20GB tier and institutional deployments with custom storage configurations up to multiple terabytes.

## Kin Score — 52.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 52.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 74.1 |
| Contract Quality | 73.0 |
| Governance | 25.0 |
| Contract Governance | 25.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 50.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 21.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |
| Access Clarity | 50.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 50.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 38.9 (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 | partial |
| 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

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

## APIs (10)

- **Figshare altmetric API** — The altmetric API from Figshare — 1 operation(s) for altmetric.
- **Figshare articles API** — The articles API from Figshare — 34 operation(s) for articles.
- **Figshare authors API** — The authors API from Figshare — 2 operation(s) for authors.
- **Figshare collections API** — The collections API from Figshare — 21 operation(s) for collections.
- **Figshare institutions API** — The institutions API from Figshare — 20 operation(s) for institutions.
- **Figshare oauth API** — The oauth API from Figshare — 1 operation(s) for oauth.
- **Figshare other API** — The other API from Figshare — 7 operation(s) for other.
- **Figshare profiles API** — The profiles API from Figshare — 2 operation(s) for profiles.
- **Figshare projects API** — The projects API from Figshare — 17 operation(s) for projects.
- **Figshare symplectic API** — The symplectic API from Figshare — 5 operation(s) for symplectic.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Figshare Agentic Access** — 157 operations · 81 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

## Security (2)

- **Figshare Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Figshare Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Figshare Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Research Data, Data Repository, Open Science, DOI, Datasets, Academic, File Storage, Open Access

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