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Lens Scholarly API

Search and retrieve scholarly works.

Lens Scholarly API is one of 2 APIs that Lens publishes on the APIs.io network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification.

Tagged areas include Scholarly. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification and API documentation.

This API exposes 3 operations across 2 paths, and defines 6 schemas. It is described by OpenAPI 3.0.3, at version 1.0.

Requests are made against a single base URL, https://api.lens.org.

3 operations 2 paths 6 schemas 2 GET1 POST

Metadata

The identity and technical contract details declared by the specification.

Specification
OpenAPI 3.0.3
API Version
1.0
Base URL
https://api.lens.org
Authentication
HTTP Bearer
Resource Areas
1

Authentication & Security 1

Lens Scholarly API declares 1 security scheme for authenticating requests. It accepts HTTP bearer tokens (JWT) (bearerAuth). By default, every request must be authenticated.

  • bearerAuth — API token issued from the Lens user profile (Plans & Tokens).

Paths & Operations 3

Across 2 paths, the API surfaces 3 operations — 2 GET, 1 POST. Each is listed below with its method, path, parameters, and response codes.

Scholarly 3

Search and retrieve scholarly works.

GET
/scholarly/search
Search scholarly works (GET)
6 params → 200400401429
POST
/scholarly/search
Search scholarly works (POST)
body → 200400401429
GET
/scholarly/{lens_id}
Get a scholarly work by Lens ID
1 param → 200401404

Schemas 6

The contract defines 6 schemas that model the data the API accepts and returns. The most detailed are SearchRequestBase (11 properties), ScholarlyWork (10 properties), SearchResponseBase (4 properties), Error (2 properties). Each schema is shown below with its type and property counts.

SearchRequestBase
object
11 properties 1 required
ScholarlyWork
object
A scholarly work record (Lens scholarly schema v1.6.8).
10 properties
SearchResponseBase
object
4 properties
ScholarlyRequest
ScholarlyResponse
Error
object
2 properties

Specification

The full machine-readable OpenAPI contract behind this narrative.

Source

lens-scholarly-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑

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