API issues

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Casey Meyer

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Aug 24, 2026, 12:30:57 PMAug 24

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Hi All,

We're having some slowdowns / failures with the OpenAlex API and working to resolve it quickly.

Casey

Casey Meyer

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Aug 24, 2026, 5:36:52 PMAug 24

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Hi All,

We received heavy traffic from bots today. We fixed the near-term problem, and are improving our cloudflare rules to detect and stop this traffic long-term. Sorry to anybody that was inconvenienced.