Open Science Framework
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Read and manage public research projects, preprints, files and metadata on the OSF repository.
Example request
curl -s 'https://api.osf.io/v2/nodes/?filter[public]=true&page[size]=1'
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Reading public projects, preprints and files needs no key or account at all. OSF doesn't publish a specific rate-limit number.
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