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GET
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search
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research
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papers
/
{id}
Inspect or read a paper
curl --request GET \
  --url https://api.firecrawl.dev/v2/search/research/papers/{id} \
  --header 'Authorization: Bearer <token>'
{
  "success": true,
  "paper": {
    "paperId": "2014215642691656232",
    "ids": {
      "arxiv": [
        "2105.05233"
      ]
    },
    "title": "Diffusion Models Beat GANs on Image Synthesis",
    "abstract": "We show that diffusion models can achieve image sample quality superior to the current state-of-the-art generative models...",
    "authors": "Prafulla Dhariwal, Alexander Nichol",
    "categories": [
      "cs.LG"
    ],
    "createdDate": "Wed, 11 May 2021 18:01:01 GMT",
    "updateDate": "2021-06-01"
  }
}
Inspect paper metadata by id, or add a query parameter to read the most relevant full-text passages for a question. Accepted ids include canonical paperId values and source-specific primaryId values (e.g. arxiv:1706.03762). For a workflow overview, see the Research Index guide.

Authorizations

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Authorization
string
header
required

Bearer authentication header of the form Bearer <token>, where <token> is your auth token.

Path Parameters

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id
string
required

Paper reference: a canonical paperId or source-specific primaryId.

Query Parameters

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query
string

When present, returns the top matching full-text passages for this question. Omit it to inspect metadata only.

Minimum string length: 1
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k
integer
default:4

Passage count for read mode. Only valid when query is present.

Required range: 1 <= x <= 50

Response

Paper metadata or read-mode passages.

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success
boolean
required
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paper
object
required