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bioRxiv/medRxiv API Summary

Preprint published article detail for specified server (bioRxiv or medRxiv)

The format of the endpoint is https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/[server]/[interval]/[cursor] or https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/[server]/[DOI]/na/[format]. The help documentation is here: https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/help.

where 'server' can be either 'bioRxiv' or 'medRxiv' and 'interval' can be 1) two YYYY-MM-DD dates separted by '/' and 'cursor' is the start point which defaults to 0 if not supplied, or 2) a numeric value for the N most recent published articles, or 3) a numeric with the letter 'd' for the most recent N days of articles.

Results are paginated with 100 articles served in a call. The 'cursor' value can be used to iterate through the result.

For instance, https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/medrxiv/2020-03-01/2020-03-30/5 will output metadata for the published version of the 100 medRxiv papers (if that many remain) published within the date range of 2020-03-01 to 2020-03-30 beginning from article 5. https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/biorxiv/2020-03-01/2020-03-30/5 will do the same for bioRxiv papers for that period.

https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/[server]/[DOI]/na/[format] returns detail for a single manuscript. For instance, https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/medrxiv/10.1101/2021.04.29.21256344 will output publication metadata for the biorxiv paper with DOI 10.1101/2021.04.29.21256344. Conversely, https://api.biorxiv.org/pubs/medrxiv/10.1371/journal.pone.0256482 will output publication metadata for the biorxiv paper with published DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0256482.

The 'messages' array in the output provides information about what is being displayed, including cursor value and count of items for the requested interval.

The following metadata elements are returned: