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inspirehep.net

High Energy Physics info. system

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INSPIRE is a trusted community hub that helps researchers to share and find accurate scholarly information in high energy physics. In addition to a regular web interface for interactive access to its content, a REST API is provided for programmatic access. The present document explains how to use this REST API. If you use the API in a scholarly work, please cite it using the following metadata: If you have any issues using the API, would like some help, or have some suggestions for improving the API or its documentation, please open an issue or contact us. Usage of the API is governed by our terms of use. As explained there in more detail, most of the metadata is available under a CC0 license, but restrictions apply to some fields, and bulk collection of email addresses is not allowed. The API is generally RESTful and returns results in JSON by…

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  1. INSPIRE REST API
  2. Questions and comments
  3. Terms of use
  4. API Overview
  5. Rate limiting
  6. Obtaining a record
  7. Internal identifiers
  8. External identifiers
  9. Single-record response
  10. Links
  11. Metadata
  12. Changing formats

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  1. First observed: Sep 14, 2026
  2. Last directory-field change: Sep 14, 2026
  3. Current source observation: Oct 30, 2026

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