Usage notes

Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/orcid-api/v1/meta" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."

await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/orcid-api/v1/meta", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});

$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/orcid-api/v1/meta");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);

import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/orcid-api/v1/meta",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "note": "The global researcher identity registry. An ORCID iD (e.g. 0000-0002-1825-0097) uniquely and persistently identifies a researcher across journals, funders and institutions. /v1/search?q=family-name:Smith = search 15M+ researchers (Solr field syntax supported: family-name:, given-names:, affiliation-org-name:, keyword:, digital-object-ids:, ringgold-org-id:, or plain text) returning each match's ORCID iD, name, other names and institutions; /v1/researcher?orcid=0000-0002-1825-0097 = a researcher's public profile (name, credit name, other names, biography, research keywords, country, personal websites and external identifiers such as Scopus or ResearcherID); /v1/works?orcid=... = their published works (title, type, year, journal and DOI); /v1/affiliations?orcid=... = their employment and education history (organization, role, department and dates). ORCID iDs come from search results or are supplied by the researcher. Data from ORCID (public records only). For the scholarly works graph see the OpenAlex API, for DOIs the Crossref API.",
        "source": "ORCID Public API (pub.orcid.org)",
        "endpoints": [
            "/v1/search",
            "/v1/researcher",
            "/v1/works",
            "/v1/affiliations",
            "/v1/meta"
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-06-01T08:13:21.825Z",
        "request_id": "1e397f60-fecf-4943-9e45-8c5399ba1d3f"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Meta retrieved",
    "success": true
}