/dblp/authors

POST /api/dblp/authors

Price: 10 credits

Get one dblp author profile by author id: the name dblp uses, earlier spellings of it, ORCID, stated affiliations and awards, external profile links, the complete list of that author's records, and the coauthors dblp has recorded

How to use it

This returns the author's whole bibliography in one call, so do not page through /dblp/publications/search by author to assemble it. dblp splits people who share a name, and `homonyms` lists the other profiles that share this one's name — check it before treating the bibliography as complete for a person, because works may sit under a namesake's id. An id ending in a dash and a digit is one of those split profiles, while `is_disambiguation_page` marks a placeholder that holds no bibliography of its own.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• pid string required — dblp author id, or the address of the author's dblp page (examples: "10/3248", "c/EFCodd", "https://dblp.org/pid/167/1261-9"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "DblpAuthor")
• pid string required
• url string required
• name string required
• aliases array (default: [])
• orcid string nullable
• key string nullable
• modified_date string nullable
• is_disambiguation_page boolean (default: false)
• notes array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DblpNote")
  • type string required
  • text string required
  • label string nullable
• profile_urls array (default: [])
• publication_count integer nullable
• coauthor_count integer nullable
• coauthors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DblpCoauthor")
  • name string required
  • pid string nullable
  • aliases array (default: [])
  • community integer nullable
• homonyms array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DblpHomonym")
  • pid string nullable
  • name string required
  • url string nullable
  • key string nullable
  • modified_date string nullable
  • is_disambiguation_page boolean (default: false)
  • notes array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DblpNote")
    • type string required
    • text string required
    • label string nullable
  • profile_urls array (default: [])
• publications array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "DblpPublication")
  • key string required
  • url string required
  • record_type string required
  • publication_type string nullable
  • modified_date string nullable
  • authors array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DblpAuthorRef")
    • name string required
    • pid string nullable
    • orcid string nullable
  • editors array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DblpAuthorRef")
    • name string required
    • pid string nullable
    • orcid string nullable
  • year integer nullable
  • month string nullable
  • pages string nullable
  • volume string nullable
  • number string nullable
  • journal string nullable
  • booktitle string nullable
  • series string nullable
  • series_url string nullable
  • publisher string nullable
  • school string nullable
  • isbns array (default: [])
  • notes array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DblpNote")
    • type string required
    • text string required
    • label string nullable
  • links array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DblpLink")
    • url string required
    • type string nullable
  • listing_url string nullable
  • stream_id string nullable
  • crossref_key string nullable
  • reference_keys array (default: [])
  • archive_paths array (default: [])
  • related_records array (default: [])
    • @type string (default: "DblpRelatedRecord")
    • type string nullable
    • label string nullable
    • key string nullable
    • url string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — No dblp author with this id Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.