Data & Analytics16 toolsPaste one API key
OpenAlex integration for AI agents
OpenAlex is an open catalog of scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, topics, and related research metadata.
Use it from your agent
One ClawLink account serves every agent you run. Pick the guide for yours, or connect OpenAlex once and call the same tools from all of them.
OpenAlex for OpenClawInstall, pair, connect, first prompt
OpenAlex for Hermes AgentInstall, pair, connect, first promptMCPClaude Code, Cursor, any MCP clientCLI login or the remote MCP serverSetup
Connect OpenAlex through ClawLink's hosted setup.
- Auth: Paste one API key. The credential stays on the ClawLink server; your agent holds only a ClawLink key you can revoke.
- Where: the ClawLink dashboard, or ask your agent to connect it.
What your agent can do
OpenAlex exposes 16 tools through ClawLink. The 15 most used are listed here; your agent sees all of them.
| Tool | What it does | Kind |
|---|---|---|
openalex_autocomplete_entities | Resolve a partial name or title to likely OpenAlex entity IDs before filtering or retrieving | Read |
openalex_download_work_content | Download an OpenAlex-cached PDF or GROBID TEI file for a work, choosing the format matching its | Read |
openalex_get_changefile | Retrieve changed entity counts and JSONL/Parquet download details for one OpenAlex changefile | Read |
openalex_get_collection | Get metadata for one private OpenAlex collection owned by the connected user | Read |
openalex_get_entity | Retrieve one OpenAlex work, author, source, institution, topic, keyword, publisher, funder | Read |
openalex_get_rate_limit_status | Validate the connected OpenAlex API key and inspect daily budget, prepaid balance, reset | Read |
openalex_list_changefiles | List all available OpenAlex changefile dates and detail URLs | Read |
openalex_list_collection_entities | List one page of entity IDs in an owned private collection together with collection metadata | Read |
openalex_list_my_collections | List private OpenAlex collections owned by the connected API-key user, optionally finding | Read |
openalex_query_entities | Search, filter, sort, sample, select, or group one OpenAlex metadata resource other than works | Read |
openalex_query_works | Search, filter, sort, sample, select, or group scholarly works, returning one cursor-controlled | Read |
openalex_add_collection_entities | Bulk-add one or more matching OpenAlex entity IDs to an owned collection without duplicating | Write |
openalex_create_collection | Create a private, single-entity-type OpenAlex collection, optionally with an initial bounded | Write |
openalex_remove_collection_entities | Bulk-remove one or more entity memberships from an owned private OpenAlex collection without | Write |
openalex_update_collection | Update a private collection's name or description, or change its entity type while the | Write |
