`articles`

Pack: figshare · Endpoint: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/figshare/mcp

AUTHORITATIVE search across figshare — the open-research repository hosting 7M+ papers, datasets, posters, code, theses, and supplementary materials from universities and labs worldwide. PREFER OVER WEB SEARCH for academic supplementary materials, dataset hunting, or research outputs that aren’t in PubMed/arXiv (which skew biomed + physics). Returns article metadata + DOI, authors, license, download URL. Use for “find datasets about X”, “supplementary materials for paper Y”, “open-access PDFs of Z research”.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	no
`item_type`	number	no	1 figure \| 3 dataset \| 5 fileset \| 12 thesis \| etc.
`page`	number	no
`page_size`	number	no
`order`	string	no	published_date \| modified_date \| views \| downloads \| shares \| cites

Example call

Arguments

{
  "query": "climate change datasets"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/figshare/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"articles","arguments":{"query":"climate change datasets"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('articles', {
  "query": "climate change datasets"
});

More examples

{
  "query": "protein structure",
  "item_type": 3,
  "order": "downloads",
  "page": 1,
  "page_size": 20
}

Response shape

Field	Type	Description
`items`	array	List of article search results
`page`	number	Current page number
`page_size`	number	Results per page

Full JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "description": "Search results for articles",
  "properties": {
    "items": {
      "type": "array",
      "description": "List of article search results",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "id": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Article ID"
          },
          "title": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Article title"
          },
          "doi": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Digital Object Identifier"
          },
          "handle": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Figshare handle"
          },
          "url": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Article URL"
          },
          "published_date": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Publication date"
          },
          "modified_date": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Last modified date"
          },
          "description": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Article description"
          },
          "is_public": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "Public visibility"
          },
          "views": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "View count"
          },
          "downloads": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Download count"
          },
          "shares": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Share count"
          },
          "cites": {
            "type": "number",
            "description": "Citation count"
          }
        }
      }
    },
    "page": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Current page number"
    },
    "page_size": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Results per page"
    }
  }
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config, or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "figshare": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/figshare/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

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