List funders

Get a list of funders with optional filtering, searching, sorting, and pagination.

GET /funders

List funders

cURL

curl --request GET \
  --url 'https://api.openalex.org/funders?api_key='

import requests

url = "https://api.openalex.org/funders?api_key="

response = requests.get(url)

print(response.text)

const options = {method: 'GET'};

fetch('https://api.openalex.org/funders?api_key=', options)
  .then(res => res.json())
  .then(res => console.log(res))
  .catch(err => console.error(err));

<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://api.openalex.org/funders?api_key=",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}

package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://api.openalex.org/funders?api_key="

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := io.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(string(body))

}

HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://api.openalex.org/funders?api_key=")
  .asString();

require 'uri'
require 'net/http'

url = URI("https://api.openalex.org/funders?api_key=")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body

200

{
  "meta": {
    "count": 123,
    "db_response_time_ms": 123,
    "page": 123,
    "per_page": 123,
    "next_cursor": "<string>",
    "groups_count": 123,
    "cost_usd": 123
  },
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "https://openalex.org/F4320306076",
      "display_name": "<string>",
      "alternate_titles": [
        "<string>"
      ],
      "country_code": "<string>",
      "description": "<string>",
      "homepage_url": "<string>",
      "image_url": "<string>",
      "image_thumbnail_url": "<string>",
      "grants_count": 123,
      "works_count": 123,
      "cited_by_count": 123,
      "ids": {
        "openalex": "<string>",
        "ror": "<string>",
        "wikidata": "<string>",
        "crossref": "<string>",
        "doi": "<string>"
      },
      "counts_by_year": [
        {
          "year": 123,
          "works_count": 123,
          "cited_by_count": 123
        }
      ],
      "works_api_url": "<string>",
      "created_date": "2023-12-25",
      "updated_date": "2023-11-07T05:31:56Z"
    }
  ],
  "group_by": [
    {
      "key": "<string>",
      "key_display_name": "<string>",
      "count": 123
    }
  ]
}

{
  "error": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>"
}

{
  "error": "<string>",
  "message": "<string>"
}

Authorizations

api_key · string · query · required

Your OpenAlex API key. Get a free key at https://openalex.org/settings/api

Query Parameters

filter · string

Filter funders. Examples: country_code:US, is_global_south:true, continent:Q46 See all Funder fields.

sort · string

Sort by: works_count, cited_by_count, awards_count. Prefix with - for descending. See all Funder fields.

group_by · string

Group by: country_code, continent, is_global_south See all Funder fields.

search · string

Full-text search across titles, abstracts, and other text fields. Example: search=machine learning

per_page · integer · default: 25

Number of results per page (1-100, default 25)

Required range: 1 <= x <= 100

page · integer

Page number for pagination. Use cursor for deep pagination beyond 10,000 results.

Required range: x >= 1

cursor · string

Cursor for deep pagination. Use cursor=* to start, then use the next_cursor from the response.

sample · integer

Return a random sample of N results (max 10,000). Cannot be used with sort or page.

Required range: x <= 10000

select · string

Comma-separated list of fields to return. Reduces response size. Example: select=id,display_name,cited_by_count

api_key · string · required

Your OpenAlex API key (required). Get a free key at https://openalex.org/settings/api

Response

200

application/json

Successful response

meta · object

Metadata about the query results

Show child attributes

results · object[]

Show child attributes

group_by · object[]

Show child attributes