ORCID person API

One ORCID record outside the works list: name, biography, keywords, links, countries, emails and external ids.

Ask your agent

“Call orcid/person with id 0000-0002-1825-0097 and summarize what comes back.”

Works in any MCP client connected to https://data.openkrill.app/mcp. Install in one line.

Path: orcid/person
MCP tool: call_endpoint
Credits: 1
Cache: 15 min

Parameters

idstring, required	ORCID iD such as 0000-0002-1825-0097, or its orcid.org url

Response

data.resources[] uses the same keys as every other platform: author, engagement, metadata, with ORCID-only fields under extras. A failed upstream call is never billed.

More ORCID tools

MCP tool call

{
  "name": "call_endpoint",
  "arguments": {
    "path": "orcid/person",
    "params": {
      "id": "0000-0002-1825-0097"
    }
  }
}

curl

curl "https://data.openkrill.app/v1/orcid/person?id=0000-0002-1825-0097" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "platform": "orcid",
  "endpoint": "orcid/person",
  "data": {
    "resources": [
      { "id": …, "title": …, "text": …, "url": …,
        "author": {…}, "engagement": {…},
        "metadata": {…}, "extras": {…} }
    ]
  },
  "credits_used": 1,
  "cached": false
}