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BASE (Bielefeld Academic Search Engine)

api.base-search.net · Science

Science No Auth Free & Open Academic Research Open Access

One of the world's most comprehensive search engines for academic web resources. Indexes 300+ million documents from 10,000+ content providers. Solr-based API, no key required.

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No authentication requiredFree to use with no key needed.

Sample Requests

GET Search academic documents

Search across 300M+ academic documents.

https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi?func=PerformSearch&hits=5&query=neural networks&format=json

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curl -X GET "https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi?func=PerformSearch&hits=5&query=neural%20networks&format=json"
import requests
params = {
    "func": "PerformSearch",
    "hits": "5",
    "query": "neural networks",
    "format": "json"
}
response = requests.get(
    "https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi",
    params=params,
)
print(response.json())
const url = new URL('https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi');
url.searchParams.set('func', 'PerformSearch');
url.searchParams.set('hits', '5');
url.searchParams.set('query', 'neural networks');
url.searchParams.set('format', 'json');

const response = await fetch(url); 
const data = await response.json();
console.log(data);
package main

import (
	"fmt"
	"io"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
)

func main() {
	baseURL, _ := url.Parse("https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi")
	q := baseURL.Query()
	q.Set("func", "PerformSearch")
	q.Set("hits", "5")
	q.Set("query", "neural networks")
	q.Set("format", "json")
	baseURL.RawQuery = q.Encode()
	targetURL := baseURL.String()
	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", targetURL, nil)

	client := &http.Client{}
	resp, _ := client.Do(req)
	defer resp.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(resp.Body)
	fmt.Println(string(body))
}
require "net/http"
require "json"

uri = URI("https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi")
uri.query = URI.encode_www_form({
  "func" => "PerformSearch",
  "hits" => "5",
  "query" => "neural networks",
  "format" => "json"
})

http = Net::HTTP.new(uri.host, uri.port)
http.use_ssl = uri.scheme == "https"

req = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri)

res = http.request(req)
puts JSON.parse(res.body)
<?php
$url = "https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi?" . http_build_query([
    "func" => "PerformSearch",
    "hits" => "5",
    "query" => "neural networks",
    "format" => "json"
]);
$opts = ["http" => [
    "method" => "GET",
]];
$ctx = stream_context_create($opts);
$res = file_get_contents($url, false, $ctx);
print_r(json_decode($res, true));

Postman Setup Guide

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  1. No API key needed
  2. Try GET https://api.base-search.net/cgi-bin/BaseHttpSearchInterface.fcgi?func=PerformSearch&query=quantum+computing&format=json&hits=5
  3. Add &dcterms_type=article to filter by article type
  4. Supports Solr query syntax for advanced searches

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