search.labs.crossref.org/dois used by cr_search() down

[sckott]

Karl says search.crossref.org/dois should work but it gives Internal server error

[sckott]

cr_search_free() is also down due to http://search.crossref.org/links 505ing

[sckott]

was a false alarm, forgotten that the base url 500's

also, a change in httr meant that some queries didn't work anymore, so tweaked internal parsing of query apram

[kjw]

Will eventually take down the API features at search.crossref.org for good (probably when we merge our search UI codebase with DataCite's fork.) Alternatives:

/links -> POST http://api.crossref.org/reverse where body is a citation

Except it doesn't do batch. One at a time.

/dois?q=test -> http://api.crossref.org/works?query=test

[sckott]

thanks for commenting here

Right, I've marked the functions for the old search.crossref.org as deprecated, and will remove those soon.

I didn't know about http://api.crossref.org/reverse - is that documented anywhere?