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api.kadec0.xyz v1 author-search
https://api.kadec0.xyz/v1/author-search
answers 402
Author and researcher profile search. An author name returns matching researchers with current affiliation, publication count, total citations, h-index and i10-index, and their most-cited papers — for author lookup, disambiguation, and citation-metrics. Keyless via OpenAlex.
We sent a real
GET request to this endpoint and it
answered 402 with payment requirements we could parse.
- Price
- $0.02
- Network
- base
- Pay to
- 0x4df66B6c140778fe0717880A7c6dDE5Ea53AcDeA
- Spec dialect
- v2 (declares x402Version 2)
- Transport
- PAYMENT-REQUIRED header
- HTTP method
- GET
- Response latency
- 71 ms
- Payment options
- 1 usable of 1
- Last checked
- 2026-09-06T01:08:25.342Z (2h ago)
- Category
- search
Re-check it yourself:
curl "https://api.the402.dev/validate?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.kadec0.xyz%2Fv1%2Fauthor-search"