Crossref MCP — Academic DOI & Literature Metadata

https://red-cars--crossref-mcp.apify.actor

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AI agent access to 120M+ academic papers, books, and conference proceedings via Crossref API. Search works, get detailed metadata, fetch references, and export BibTeX.

Transport

streamable-http

Auth

apify_token

Cost

free

How to connect

MCP endpoint (streamable-http)

https://red-cars--crossref-mcp.apify.actor

JSON-RPC initialize probe

curl -X POST https://red-cars--crossref-mcp.apify.actor \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -H 'Accept: application/json, text/event-stream' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"initialize","params":{}}'

Homepage

https://apify.com/red.cars/crossref-mcp

Source code

https://apify.com/red.cars/crossref-mcp

Listed at (apify)

https://apify.com/store/categories/mcp-servers