Add OpenAlex API key configuration - #92
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New MCP tools, all key-less via OpenAlex: get_citing_papers forward snowballing (papers citing a paper) get_referenced_papers backward snowballing (papers a paper cites) find_open_access_pdf OA copy resolution without an Unpaywall email search_papers gains enrich_citations (default on): citation counts are backfilled from OpenAlex for sources that report none (arXiv, dblp, PubMed), one request per 100 papers, reported as citations_enriched. In the OpenAlex connector, the parsing inside search() is extracted into _parse_work() so the graph lookups share it; it now tolerates JSON null fields, falls back to best_oa_location for a PDF link, and records references plus is_oa / pdf_is_direct. All requests go through a _get() helper that retries 429/5xx with backoff and honours Retry-After, but does not retry an exhausted OpenAlex request budget. OpenAlex contact/key configuration is deliberately left alone here, so this does not collide with openags#92. Closes the "Citation graph & Paper relation context feature" TODO.
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Summary
PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_OPENALEX_API_KEY/OPENALEX_API_KEYsupport toOpenAlexSearcherand pass it as the OpenAlexapi_keyquery parameter.PAPER_SEARCH_MCP_OPENALEX_EMAIL/OPENALEX_EMAILsupport for the OpenAlexUser-Agentcontact string while preserving the existing default..env.example.Context
OpenAlex now documents API keys as the replacement for the old polite-pool approach and notes that free keys improve daily request limits. This complements #81 without changing arXiv pacing or venue handling.
Docs: https://docs.openalex.org/how-to-use-the-api/api-keys
Validation
python -m pytest tests\\test_openalex.pypython -m py_compile paper_search_mcp\\academic_platforms\\openalex.py tests\\test_openalex.py