RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) API

Overview

RePEc is the largest decentralized bibliographic database for economics, indexing 4.4M+ items (working papers, journal articles, books, software) from 2,600+ publishers. It powers IDEAS and EconPapers — the two most-used economics paper search engines. The API provides metadata access and citation data. Free, no authentication required for basic access.

Access Methods

IDEAS Search API

# Search economics papers
curl "https://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?q=monetary+policy+inflation&cmd=Search&fmt=json"

# Search specific types
# Working papers
curl "https://ideas.repec.org/cgi-bin/htsearch?q=fiscal+stimulus&ul=%%2Fp%%2F&fmt=json"

# Journal articles