> ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://developers.openalex.org/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Get a single award > Retrieve a single award by its OpenAlex ID. ## OpenAPI ````yaml /api-reference/openapi.json get /awards/{id} openapi: 3.1.0 info: title: OpenAlex API description: >- The OpenAlex API provides access to a comprehensive catalog of scholarly works, authors, sources, institutions, topics, keywords, publishers, and funders. OpenAlex indexes over 250 million scholarly works. version: 1.0.0 contact: name: OpenAlex Support email: support@openalex.org url: https://openalex.org license: name: CC0 url: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ servers: - url: https://api.openalex.org description: OpenAlex Production API security: - apiKey: [] tags: - name: Works description: Scholarly documents like journal articles, books, datasets, and theses - name: Authors description: People who create scholarly works - name: Sources description: Journals, repositories, and other venues where works are hosted - name: Institutions description: Universities, research organizations, and other affiliations - name: Topics description: Research topics automatically assigned to works - name: Keywords description: Short phrases identified from works' topics - name: Publishers description: Companies and organizations that publish scholarly works - name: Funders description: Organizations that fund research - name: Autocomplete description: Fast typeahead search for any entity type - name: Domains description: Top-level categories in the topic hierarchy (4 total) - name: Fields description: Second-level categories in the topic hierarchy (26 total) - name: Subfields description: Third-level categories in the topic hierarchy (254 total) - name: SDGs description: UN Sustainable Development Goals (17 total) - name: Countries description: Geographic countries for filtering research by location - name: Continents description: Geographic continents (7 total) - name: Languages description: Languages of scholarly works - name: Awards description: Research grants and funding awards - name: Concepts description: Legacy taxonomy of research areas (deprecated - use Topics instead) - name: Work Types description: Types of scholarly works (article, book, dataset, etc.) - name: Source Types description: Types of sources (journal, repository, conference, etc.) - name: Institution Types description: Types of institutions (education, healthcare, company, etc.) - name: Licenses description: Open access licenses (CC BY, CC BY-SA, etc.) paths: /awards/{id}: get: tags: - Awards summary: Get a single award description: Retrieve a single award by its OpenAlex ID. operationId: getAward parameters: - name: id in: path required: true description: OpenAlex ID (e.g., G5859020988) schema: type: string - $ref: '#/components/parameters/select' - $ref: '#/components/parameters/api_key' responses: '200': description: Successful response content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/AwardFull' '404': $ref: '#/components/responses/NotFound' '429': $ref: '#/components/responses/RateLimited' components: parameters: select: name: select in: query description: >- Comma-separated list of fields to return. Reduces response size. Example: `select=id,display_name,cited_by_count` schema: type: string api_key: name: api_key in: query description: >- Your OpenAlex API key (required). Get a free key at https://openalex.org/settings/api required: true schema: type: string schemas: AwardFull: type: object description: Research grant or funding award properties: id: type: string example: https://openalex.org/G5859020988 description: The OpenAlex ID for this award. display_name: type: string nullable: true description: The name of the award, if available. description: type: string nullable: true description: A description of the award, if available. funder_award_id: type: string description: The funder's internal ID for this award. funder: type: object properties: id: type: string display_name: type: string doi: type: string nullable: true description: The [funder](/api-reference/funders) of this award funded_outputs: type: array items: type: string description: OpenAlex IDs of works funded by this award (first 100). funded_outputs_count: type: integer description: Total number of works funded by this award. amount: type: number nullable: true description: The funding amount, if available. currency: type: string nullable: true description: The currency of the funding amount, if available. funding_type: type: string nullable: true description: The type of funding, if available. funder_scheme: type: string nullable: true description: The funder's scheme or program, if available. start_date: type: string format: date nullable: true description: Start date of the award (ISO 8601), if available. end_date: type: string format: date nullable: true description: End date of the award (ISO 8601), if available. start_year: type: integer nullable: true description: Start year of the award, if available. end_year: type: integer nullable: true description: End year of the award, if available. landing_page_url: type: string nullable: true description: URL to the award's landing page, if available. doi: type: string nullable: true description: DOI for this award, if available. provenance: type: string description: The source of this award data. lead_investigator: type: object nullable: true description: The lead investigator for this award, if available. co_lead_investigator: type: object nullable: true description: The co-lead investigator, if available. investigators: type: array nullable: true description: List of investigators on this award, if available. works_api_url: type: string description: A URL that returns all works funded by this award. created_date: type: string format: date description: When this award was added to OpenAlex (ISO 8601 date). updated_date: type: string format: date-time description: When this award was last updated (ISO 8601 datetime). Error: type: object properties: error: type: string description: Error type message: type: string description: Human-readable error message responses: NotFound: description: Entity not found content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' RateLimited: description: Rate limit exceeded content: application/json: schema: $ref: '#/components/schemas/Error' securitySchemes: apiKey: type: apiKey in: query name: api_key description: >- Your OpenAlex API key. Get a free key at https://openalex.org/settings/api ````