---
title: "Is Crossref Public REST API down? Crossref Public REST API status"
url: "https://www.openstatus.dev/status/crossref/public-rest-api"
description: "Live Crossref Public REST API status, uptime over the last 45 days and recent incidents, tracked by openstatus."
---

# Is Crossref Public REST API down?

**Answer:** No, Crossref Public REST API is not down. All Crossref Public REST API systems are operational.

- Status: operational
- Checked: 2026-11-07T05:10:04Z
- User reports in the last 15 minutes: 0
- Part of: [Crossref](/status/crossref.md) / APIs
- Official status page: https://status.crossref.org
- About: The REST API enables flexible programmatic access to search and filter our metadata and/or match references. The Public REST API is a public, open, and free API for all anonymous users. Note that we recommend you be "polite" and self-identify as described in the "Etiquette" section of the API documentation: https://api.crossref.org

## Last 45 days

2 of 2 tracked days without issues.

## Incidents affecting Public REST API

| Started | Incident | Impact | Duration |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2026-07-07 | [Degraded performance in the REST API public and polite pools](https://stspg.io/lp5z421p16q2) | minor | 23h 8m |
| 2026-07-02 | [Cursor requests not returning all results in the REST API](https://stspg.io/y8xfmzkmlzj9) | minor | 3d 21h |
| 2026-06-22 | [Degraded performance on Public and Polite REST API](https://stspg.io/h5tdh92ppzjd) | minor | 1d 23h |
| 2026-05-29 | [Degraded service on REST API](https://stspg.io/3l58rnw5zqfk) | minor | 7d 5h |
| 2026-05-02 | [REST API Indexing Stalled since April 29th. Impacts on downstream services.](https://stspg.io/vxy5vtfcs2z8) | minor | 2d 20h |

## Links

- HTML page: /status/crossref/public-rest-api
- Service: /status/crossref.md