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DBLP API Guide

Overview

DBLP (Digital Bibliography and Library Project) is the most comprehensive open bibliographic database for computer science. Maintained by Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz Center for Informatics, DBLP indexes over 6.5 million publications from thousands of journals, conference proceedings, and informal publication venues in computer science and related fields.

DBLP is widely regarded as the authoritative source for computer science bibliographic data. It is used by researchers for tracking publication records, by hiring committees for evaluating academic productivity, and by bibliometric tools for analyzing the computer science research landscape. Each author in DBLP has a unique profile page with a complete, disambiguated publication list.

The API is entirely free and open, requiring no authentication. There are no published rate limits, though users are expected to be respectful and avoid excessive load on the servers. All data is available under the ODC-BY license.

Authentication

No authentication required. The DBLP API is fully open and free to use. No API key, registration, or email is needed. Users should include a descriptive User-Agent header and avoid sending excessive concurrent requests.

Core Endpoints

Publication Search: Find Computer Science Papers

URL: GET https://dblp.org/search/publ/api

Parameters:

Param	Type	Required	Description
q	string	Yes	Search query (supports author:, venue:, year: prefixes)
format	string	No	Response format: json, xml (default: xml)
h	integer	No	Number of results (default: 30, max: 1000)
f	integer	No

URL: GET https://dblp.org/search/author/api
Parameters:
Param Type Required Description
q string Yes Author name query
format string No Response format: json, xml
h integer No Number of results (default: 30)
f integer No Starting offset

Param	Type	Required	Description
q	string	Yes	Author name query
format	string	No	Response format: json, xml
h	integer	No	Number of results (default: 30)
f	integer	No	Starting offset

Example:

curl "https://dblp.org/search/author/api?q=Yann+LeCun&format=json&h=5"

Response: JSON with matched author profiles including author name, url (DBLP profile URL), and optional notes with affiliation information.

URL: GET https://dblp.org/search/venue/api
Parameters:
Param Type Required Description
q string Yes Venue name query
format string No Response format: json, xml
h integer No Number of results
f integer No Starting offset

Param	Type	Required	Description
q	string	Yes	Venue name query
format	string	No	Response format: json, xml
h	integer	No	Number of results
f	integer	No	Starting offset

Example:

curl "https://dblp.org/search/venue/api?q=NeurIPS&format=json&h=5"

Response: JSON with matched venue names, acronyms, and DBLP venue URLs.

URL: GET https://dblp.org/pid/{pid}.json
Parameters:
Param Type Required Description
pid string Yes DBLP person ID (e.g., h/GeoffreyEHinton) from author search results

Param	Type	Required	Description
pid	string	Yes	DBLP person ID (e.g., h/GeoffreyEHinton) from author search results

Example:

curl "https://dblp.org/pid/h/GeoffreyEHinton.json"

Response: JSON with full author profile including name variants, affiliation, and complete publication list with metadata.

# Step 1: Find the author's DBLP PID
curl "https://dblp.org/search/author/api?q=Jure+Leskovec&format=json&h=1"

# Step 2: Fetch their full profile
curl "https://dblp.org/pid/l/JureLeskovec.json"

curl "https://dblp.org/search/publ/api?q=venue:ICML+year:2024&format=json&h=50"

curl "https://dblp.org/search/publ/api?q=attention+is+all+you+need&format=json&h=1" | jq '.result.hits.hit[0].info.doi'

43-wentorai-research-plugins-skills-domains-cs-dblp-api

Summary

SKILL.md

DBLP API Guide

Overview

Authentication

Core Endpoints

Publication Search: Find Computer Science Papers

Author Search: Find Researchers

Venue Search: Find Journals and Conferences

Author Profile: Full Publication List

Rate Limits

Common Patterns

Track an Author's Publication Record

Find Top Papers at a Conference

Cross-Reference with DOI

References

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