OpenAlex
Let AI connect your sources for you
Skip the manual setup — run this in your project and the wizard auto-detects your databases and APIs and connects them to PostHog.
Connect OpenAlex to PostHog to sync your data into the PostHog data warehouse for analysis and modeling.
Enter your OpenAlex API key to pull scholarly metadata into the PostHog Data warehouse.
Keys are free and take about a minute to create at openalex.org/settings/api.
OpenAlex indexes over 300 million works and 120 million authors, which is more than a free key's daily allowance covers. Use the filter fields to narrow the works, authors and awards tables to the records you care about, for example authorships.institutions.lineage:i27837315 for one institution's papers. The filtering guide lists the available filter fields. Leave a filter blank to sync the whole entity.
Configuration
| Option | Type | Required |
|---|---|---|
API key | password | Yes |
Works filter (optional) | text | No |
Authors filter (optional) | text | No |
Awards filter (optional) | text | No |
Linking OpenAlex to PostHog
- Go to the Data pipeline page in PostHog
- Click New source and select OpenAlex
- Fill in the required configuration fields
- Click Next, select the tables you want to sync, and then press Import