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ISHOB

Research brief on any topic in one call: the best papers from ISHOB's open-licence archive, filled with a live search of 250M+ scholarly works, each with authors, year, venue, DOI and citations; abstracts only for openly licensed papers (CC0 / public domain / CC BY / CC BY-SA), metadata and link for the rest; plus a short AI synthesis citing the papers as [n]. Checked before payment: if nothing is found anywhere the answer is a free 404 'not_covered'.

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Offering

Provider
api.ishob.com
Method
POST
Offering type
Api Endpoint
Transport type
http
Category
Science And Education
Delivery
Not provided
Pricing model
Not provided
x402 version
2

Endpoint context

URL
https://api.ishob.com/v1/research-brief
MIME type
Not provided
First seen
2026-10-16T01:50:32.458Z
Last seen
Tags
Research, scientific-literature, open-access, dataset, JSON

Website

Payment pricing

x402 payment terms are the authoritative price for calling this endpoint.

Payment option 1
0.05 USDC
Atomic price: 50000 · Network: eip155:8453 · Asset: USDC · Scheme: exact
Raw x402 terms
[
  {
    "scheme": "exact",
    "network": "eip155:8453",
    "asset": "0x833589fCD6eDb6E08f4c7C32D4f71b54bdA02913",
    "amount": "50000",
    "payTo": "0x906F87F107B4675dD890b3f8EB2d51885E50e09d"
  }
]

Observed health

Status
Healthy
Latest latency
201 ms
Average latency
699 ms
HTTP status
204
Last checked
Reachability
100% over 15 checks

Latency is measured to the first response headers. A reachable result does not verify response accuracy or merchant identity.

Input schema

{
  "additionalProperties": false,
  "properties": {
    "body": {
      "properties": {
        "include_live": {
          "default": true,
          "description": "Fill with live results from open scholarly sources when the archive has fewer papers",
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "max_papers": {
          "default": 5,
          "maximum": 8,
          "minimum": 1,
          "type": "integer"
        },
        "query": {
          "description": "Research question or topic",
          "maxLength": 200,
          "minLength": 3,
          "type": "string"
        },
        "synthesize": {
          "default": true,
          "description": "Add the AI-written brief",
          "type": "boolean"
        },
        "year_from": {
          "description": "Only papers published in or after this year",
          "minimum": 1900,
          "type": "integer"
        }
      },
      "required": [
        "query"
      ],
      "type": "object"
    },
    "bodyType": {
      "enum": [
        "json",
        "form-data",
        "text"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "method": {
      "enum": [
        "POST"
      ],
      "type": "string"
    },
    "type": {
      "const": "http",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type",
    "method",
    "bodyType",
    "body"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}

Output schema

{
  "properties": {
    "example": {
      "type": "object"
    },
    "type": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "type"
  ],
  "type": "object"
}