General research
Find datasets
Search research data in DataCite, Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse and Hugging Face.
1 credit / call|search_datasets
Once connected, say this to your agent
Find open datasets of urban tree canopy with a CC BY licence.
Or try it free on the web, no connection needed →Works withClaude · ChatGPT · Codex · Cursor · Gemini CLI · REST API
Toolssearch_datasets
Example
YOU SAY TO YOUR AGENT
Find open datasets on urban tree canopy.
On the right: the call your agent makes and the reply it got on 2026-10-13, shortened to the first records and a few of their fields.
search_datasets({
"query": "urban tree canopy",
"limit": 5
})
{
"summary": "5 datasets for \"urban tree canopy\" from zenodo, dryad, dataverse, huggingface, datacite. data.license is the dataset's own licence when the repository states one (the record-level license covers the metadata).",
"records": [
{
"title": "Diverging conditions of current and potential future urban forest patches",
"url": "https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.sn02v6x3k",
"source": "dryad",
"license": "CC0-1.0",
"data": {
"doi": "10.5061/dryad.sn02v6x3k",
"creators": [
"Danica Doroski"
],
"year": 2021,
"repository": "Dryad"
}
}
],
"credits_used": 1
}What you get
- Dataset, size, format, licence and DOI
Good fit
- Replication and secondary analysis
Not for
- Restricted or registration-only data
Similar capabilities
Frequently asked questions
Your agent calls search_datasets over MCP. ScholarMuse queries DataCite, Zenodo, Dryad, Harvard Dataverse, Hugging Face Datasets and returns records, each with its source, licence and a link you can check.
No. It costs 1 credit per call, charged only when the call succeeds. A new account gets 50 credits once, valid for 30 days. The web version, Dataset finder, is free without an account, 5 runs a day.
Claude, ChatGPT, Codex, Cursor, Gemini CLI and any other client that supports MCP.
Yes. The same tools (search_datasets) are available over the REST API.




