# OSF **Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/osf/ **Website:** https://osf.io **APIs profiled:** 1 OSF (Open Science Framework) is a free, open-source platform that supports the entire research lifecycle, enabling collaboration, data sharing, and reproducible workflows. Researchers can register projects, collect data, manage materials, and publish results, all while integrating with tools like Dropbox, GitHub, and more. The platform emphasizes openness, inclusivity, and long-term preservation of scholarly outputs. ## Kin Score — 33.1 / 100 (thin) Scored 2026-11-06 under rubric 0.27.0. Trend: falling (-9.0 from 42.1). | Facet | Score | |---|---| | Discoverability | 62.5 | | Contract Quality | 48.4 | | Contract Governance | 35.6 | | Operational Transparency | 5.3 | | Developer Ergonomics | 30.2 | | Access Clarity | 22.4 | Regulatory layer — **Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform)**: 14.7 (matched via fallback). ## Agent readiness — 21.8 (agent-aware) | Dimension | Value | |---|---| | Spec Presence | yes | | Agentic Access | no | | Reversibility Documented | no | | MCP Server | no | | Auth Clarity | no | | Idempotency | no | | Error Semantics | derived | | OpenAPI Examples | verified | | Rate Limit Signal | no | | Event Surface Described | no | | Agent Skills | unknown | | Well Known Catalog | no | | Consent Identity | no | | Agent Card | no | | Dry Run Mode | no | | Delegated Identity | no | | Protected Resource Metadata | no | | Dynamic Client Registration | no | | Agentic Commerce | no | | Pagination Ratio | no | | Operation Distinctiveness | mostly | | MCP Tool Quality | na | ## Access Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low). ## APIs (41) - **OSF API** — Open Science Framework API v2 provides programmatic access to projects, registrations, files, and other research resources. - **OSF Actions API** — Actions represent state transitions or comments performed on reviewable or request-related resources within the OSF platform, such as Preprints, Nodes, Preprint Requests, Node R... - **OSF Applications API** — **OAuth2 Applications** allow external services to securely authenticate and interact with OSF resources via OAuth2. Registered applications manage OAuth2 flows, client credenti... - **OSF Base API** — This is the "home page" of the API you can get important autentication information for the user making the request and get links to other resources. - **OSF CEDAR Metadata API** — CEDAR Metadata endpoints allow you to create, read, update, and manage metadata records based on CEDAR templates. These templates enable users to apply structured, standardized ... - **OSF Citations API** — The Citations API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for citations. - **OSF Collection Providers API** — A Collection Submissions Provider represents the data for moderators and admins for a group of collections. It acts as a central hub for managing all collection submissions with... - **OSF Collection Submission Actions API** — The Collection Submission Actions API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for collection submission actions. - **OSF Collection Submissions API** — A Collection Submission is an object that allows a user to add a resource, either a project, preprint, or registration to a collection. Once created, a Collection Submission may... - **OSF Collections API** — The Collections API from OSF — 11 operation(s) for collections. - **OSF Comments API** — The Comments API from OSF — 1 operation(s) for comments. - **OSF Contributors API** — The Contributors API from OSF — 1 operation(s) for contributors. - **OSF Custom Metadata API** — Custom Metadata endpoints allow users to manage freeform or structured metadata associated with OSF nodes and files. Unlike CEDAR metadata, Custom Metadata provides more flexibl... - **OSF Draft Registrations API** — A Draft Registration is a object that allows a user to edit and revise a registration before it is registered. Draft Registrations allow contributors to coordinate on a single r... - **OSF Files API** — The Files API from OSF — 5 operation(s) for files. - **OSF GUIDs API** — The GUIDs API from OSF — 1 operation(s) for guids. - **OSF Identifiers API** — Identifiers are unique strings associated with various entities in the OSF system, such as project nodes, registrations or preprints. Identifiers serve as a means to distinctly ... - **OSF Institutions API** — The Institutions API from OSF — 8 operation(s) for institutions. - **OSF Licenses API** — The Licenses API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for licenses. - **OSF Logs API** — The Logs API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for logs. - **OSF Nodes API** — The Nodes API from OSF — 37 operation(s) for nodes. - **OSF Notification Subscriptions API** — **Notification Subscriptions** allow users to manage how they receive alerts about activities and events related to OSF resources, such as projects, preprints, registrations, an... - **OSF OAuth Scopes API** — OAuth scopes define specific permissions for OAuth applications and personal access tokens. Each scope indicates the permission level granted to perform actions via the OSF API,... - **OSF Preprint Providers API** — Preprint Providers are entities that manage and moderate groups of preprints on the OSF platform. Each Preprint Provider oversees its own preprint service, which can include bra... - **OSF Preprints API** — The Preprints API from OSF — 17 operation(s) for preprints. - **OSF Regions API** — Storage Regions are predefined geographical or cloud-storage areas where files are stored within OSF Storage. Each region provides isolation of data in compliance with geographi... - **OSF Registration Providers API** — Registration Providers are entities that manage and moderate groups of registrations on the OSF platform. Each Registration Provider defines workflows, review policies, and cust... - **OSF Registration Schema Blocks API** — Registration Schema Blocks are read-only entities, they represent question prompts and form inputs known as "blocks" that make up a Registration Schemas. Each block has a design... - **OSF Registration Schemas API** — A Registration Schemas defines the range of valid responses to a registration. Each Registration Schema is composed of "blocks" tha... - **OSF Registrations API** — The Registrations API from OSF — 38 operation(s) for registrations. - **OSF Requests API** — Manage user-initiated requests related to nodes and preprints, including access requests, withdrawal requests, and institutional affiliation requests. Requests are actions initi... - **OSF Resources API** — Resources are structured data artifacts associated with a Registration. These can include datasets, analytic code, materials, papers, or supplementary files that contribute to t... - **OSF Schema Response Actions API** — Schema Response Actions are objects that when created cause state transitions for Schema Responses. Users use state transitions to submit, approve, and revise new Schema Respons... - **OSF Schema Responses API** — Schema Responses contain user supplied responses to a Registration Schema. A Schema Response aggregates all of the the responses for a given version of a Registration's Registra... - **OSF Subjects API** — Subjects endpoints provide access to the taxonomy used for categorizing OSF resources such as nodes, preprints, and registrations. Subjects can be hierarchical, with parent and ... - **OSF Taxonomies API** — The Taxonomies API from OSF — 4 operation(s) for taxonomies. - **OSF Tokens API** — **Personal Access Tokens** allow users to authenticate API requests without credentials. Tokens support fine-grained permissions (scopes) to control API access levels. - **OSF Users API** — Users represent individual accounts within the OSF (Open Science Framework) platform. Each user account includes identifying information such as names, email addresses, profile ... - **OSF View Only Links API** — The View Only Links API from OSF — 2 operation(s) for view only links. - **OSF Wikis API** — The Wikis endpoints allow users to create, update, retrieve, and manage wiki pages and their versions for OSF projects and registrations. Wikis are collaborative documents that ... - …and 1 more, listed in full on the page. ## Security (1) - **Osf Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC ## Tags Company, Open Science, Research, Collaboration, Platform, Open Source --- Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/osf/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.