Research brief on any topic in one call
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'.
Answeringour last check, 2026-10-18
1 of 1checks answered this week
2285 msmedian answer time
$0.05listed price per call
$0.05price it asked us
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Endpoint
POST https://api.ishob.com/v1/research-brief
| Category | Search and research |
|---|---|
| Provider host | api.ishob.com |
| Networks | eip155:8453 |
| Payment schemes | exact |
| Self-reported calls, 30 days | 1 from 1 payers (the provider's figure, not ours) |
Our checks, last 30 days
| Day | Result | HTTP | Asked | Time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-18 | valid payment request | 402 | $0.05 | 2285 ms |
Example input (from the provider)
{
"body": {
"max_papers": 5,
"query": "perovskite solar cell stability"
},
"bodyType": "json",
"method": "POST",
"type": "http"
}
Promised output schema (from the provider)
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"properties": {
"input": {
"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": {
"properties": {
"example": {
"type": "object"
},
"type": {
"type": "string"
}
},
"required": [
"type"
],
"type": "object"
}
},
"required": [
"input"
],
"type": "object"
}