A number of ORCID API users have made their code publicly available for your reference as you work on your own integration. See the list below for examples in a variety of languages.
Don’t see a example in the language that you’re using? Reach out to other developers via the ORCID API Users Group
| App Name | Creator | Language | DESCRIPTION | RESOURCES |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CrossRef Metadata Search | CrossRef | Ruby | CrossRef search interface | Live app Code (Github) |
| Datacite Search & Claim | ORCID EU Labs | Ruby | Tool for searching for works in the DataCite metadata catalogue and adding them to an ORCID record | Live app Code (Github) |
| FlexiGrant | Fluent Technologies | ASP.NET | Get an authenticated ORCID iD | Download code snippet (.txt file) |
| GoAuth2 ORCID | CrossRef | Go | Fork of goauth2 with extra bits to work with ORCID’s OAuth2 authentication. | Code (Github) |
| Invenio | CERN | Python | ORCID OAuth 2.0 Sign in/up for Invenio | Live app Code (Github) Documentation |
| ISNI to ORCID | ORCID EU Labs | Ruby | Tool for searching the ISNI registry by name and adding one or more ISNIs to an ORCID record as external identifiers. | Live app Code |
| Laravel Socialite Provider for ORCID | Miguel Piedrafita (Repository Maintainer) Ben Cornwell (Contributor) | Laravel / PHP | ORCID oAuth provider for use with the Laravel application framework. Based on Socialite, this components allows Laravel app developers to quickly including support for ORCID oAuth authentication alongside more than 100 other oAuth providers. | Socialite Providers Repository ORCID provider documentation and config examples (Github) General documention for Laravel Socialite |
| MVC.net example of ORCID OAuth2 | Aminur Rouf | C# | C# example of how to conduct a 3 legged OAuth2 sign in and retrieve read-limited data from ORCID. | Live app Code and documentation (Github) |
| Node.js Authentication Example Configuration | o2r project | JavaScript | Example configuration for three legged OAuth 2.0 by ORCID using passport.js and passport-oauth2 in node.js. | Code (Github) |
| OmniAuth ORCID | Ruby | ORCID OAuth 2.0 Strategy for the OmniAuth Ruby authentication framework; provides basic support for connecting a client app to ORCID | Code (Github) | |
| OmniAuth ORCID (fork) | GrowKudos | Ruby | A maintained fork of OmniAuth ORCID (see above) | Live app Code (Github) |
| ORCID.js | Mike Crabb | Javascript | Very simple javascript library for including ORCID information. Built using fetch(). | Code (Github) |
| ORCID Example Client App | Java | ORCID Example Client Application (JOPMTS) | Code (Github) | |
| ORCID Example Client App | Ruby (on Rails) | Simple web app built with Rails and Twitter Bootstrap which demonstrates a basic integration with the ORCID API. | Code (Github) | |
| ORCID Feed ORCID Feed is no longer supported; ORCID Javascript Client is recommended instead | ORCID EU Labs | Ruby | RSS feeds for ORCID records | Code (Github) |
| ORCID iD to GDocs | ORCID | Javascript | Simple node.js app that collects authenticated ORCID iDs and uploads them to a Google document. | Code (Github) |
| ORCID Java Client | Java | Simple client written in Java; supports the Pulic and Member APIs with OAuth. | Live app (ORCID Thesis import) Code (Github) | |
| ORCID Javascript Client | Javascript | A general purpose ORCID Javascript client and reference list generator, supporting CSL, citeproc-JSON and BibTeX. | Code (Github) | |
| ORCID record updater | Java | Logs users in via ORCID OAuth and pushes new works to their ORCID records. | Code (Github) | |
| ORCID PHP Client | Théophane Kouchoanou (CNRS) | PHP | PHP client to authenticate iDs and push works to ORCID records. | Code (Github) |
| ORCID Python | Python | Simple Python wrapper around the ORCID API | Code (Github) | |
| ORCID Rails Engine | ProjectHydra | Ruby | Rails Engine for integrating with ORCID; leverages the Devise MultiAuth plugin for negotiating the interaction with ORCID | Code (Github) |
| ORCID Researcher Lookup Widget | Australian National Data Service (ANDS) | JavaScript | Enhances web forms to include the ability to lookup/search for an ORCID iD. | Live app Code |
| OWIN OAuth Providers | Original library author: Tommy Parnell ORCID provider contributor: Rick Zakharov | C# | Provides a set of extra authentication providers for OWIN (Project Katana) | Nuget Package Code (Github) |
| Prototype ORCID Updater | Australian National Data Service (ANDS) | Java | ANU DataCommons | Live app Code (Github) Documentation |
| Qrorcid | ORCID | Java | Enables you to create a QR code based on your ORCID record | Live app Code (Github) |
| rORCID | rOpenSci | R | R programmatic interface to the ORCID Public API. | Code (Github) |
| Share my iD | ORCID | JavaScript | Simple node.js app that collects authenticated ORCID iDs and uploads them to a Google document. | Code (Github) |
| Spring Social ORCID project | Yuci Gou | Spring | An extension to Spring Social that enables integration with ORCID. | Code (Github) Example web application |
| Vue.js ORCID Integration | Simon Goring | Vue.js | Tool to get an authenticated ORCID iD using openid |