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Research & Academic

Scholarly and technical research data: academic paper search (OpenAlex with Crossref fallback — both free and keyless) and domain intelligence (RDAP WHOIS + crt.sh Certificate Transparency). Built for research pipelines that need ground-truth citations, publication metadata, or domain vetting before scraping.

What it scrapes​

SourceData
OpenAlex (CC0, keyless)250M+ scholarly works: papers by keyword, single-paper lookup, citation counts
Crossref (fallback)DOI registration metadata when OpenAlex fails or returns nothing
RDAP (rdap.org)Registration/expiration dates, registrar, status codes, nameservers
crt.shCertificate Transparency logs — every cert ever issued for a domain

Endpoints​

Router: routers/research_data.py · tag: Research Data

MethodPathSummary
GET/v1/research/papersAcademic paper / preprint search
GET/v1/research/domainDomain intelligence report (WHOIS / SSL / hosting / tech)

GET /v1/research/papers​

Query params: query (required), author (filter), year_from (earliest publication year), limit (1–100, default 20).

curl -X GET "http://localhost:8005/v1/research/papers?query=attention+is+all+you+need&limit=2" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <key>"

Response (200):

{
  "success": true,
  "query": "attention is all you need",
  "author": "",
  "limit": 2,
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "https://openalex.org/W2741809807",
      "title": "Attention Is All You Need",
      "authors": ["Ashish Vaswani", "Noam Shazeer"],
      "year": 2017,
      "citations": 62342,
      "doi": "10.48550/arXiv.1706.03762",
      "url": "https://openalex.org/W2741809807",
      "source": "openalex"
    }
  ]
}

GET /v1/research/domain​

Query params: domain (required), include_tech (bool, default true — include technology fingerprint).

curl -X GET "http://localhost:8005/v1/research/domain?domain=example.com" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer <key>"

Response (200):

{
  "success": true,
  "domain": "example.com",
  "data": {
    "domain": "example.com",
    "registrar": "RESERVED-Internet Assigned Numbers Authority",
    "created": "1992-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "expires": "2027-01-01T00:00:00Z",
    "status": ["client delete prohibited", "client transfer prohibited"],
    "nameservers": ["a.iana-servers.net", "b.iana-servers.net"],
    "source": "rdap"
  }
}

MCP tools​

The Pry MCP server exposes both endpoints as tools:

ToolBacking endpoint
pry_papersGET /v1/research/papers
pry_domainGET /v1/research/domain
{
  "jsonrpc": "2.0",
  "id": 1,
  "method": "tools/call",
  "params": {
    "name": "pry_papers",
    "arguments": {"query": "attention is all you need", "limit": 5}
  }
}

Who uses this​

  • Research pipelines — scholarly grounding with real citation counts, no API key, CC0 data.
  • Lead enrichment — vet a domain before scraping it (registrar, expiry, cert history).
  • Competitor mapping — SSL/hosting/tech fingerprint of competitor sites.

Next steps​