---
search:
  tags:
    - Discovery
    - GET
seo:
  description: >-
    arXiv metadata and abstracts for papers whose v1 was submitted between from
    and to (UTC,… Reference for the GET /papers.json endpoint in the arXivv API.
sidebar:
  label: Papers by submission date
  badge: GET
title: Papers by submission date
type: openapi-operation
---
arXiv metadata and abstracts for papers whose v1 was submitted between `from` and `to` (UTC, inclusive), newest first. Served from the daily OAI-PMH harvest; never builds papers. `coverage.from` is the first date the listing is complete for.

`GET /papers.json`

**Responses**

- `200` — OK
- `400` — Invalid query parameter
- `429` — Rate limit exceeded
- `502` — arXiv (or another upstream) returned an error

Response example, 200:

```json
{
  "schema": 1,
  "from": "string",
  "to": "string",
  "category": "string",
  "coverage": {
    "from": "string"
  },
  "papers": [
    {
      "id": "string",
      "version": 1,
      "submittedAt": "string",
      "updatedAt": "string",
      "title": "string",
      "authors": "string",
      "abstract": "string",
      "categories": [
        "string"
      ],
      "primaryCategory": "string",
      "license": "string",
      "doi": "string",
      "journalRef": "string",
      "comments": "string",
      "withdrawn": true
    }
  ],
  "next": "string"
}
```

Response example, 400:

```json
{
  "type": "https://arxivv.org/errors/invalid-query",
  "title": "Invalid query",
  "status": 400,
  "detail": "Invalid query parameter",
  "instance": "/1706.03762v7.md",
  "code": "invalid-query"
}
```

Response example, 429:

```json
{
  "type": "https://arxivv.org/errors/rate-limited",
  "title": "Rate limit exceeded",
  "status": 429,
  "detail": "Rate limit exceeded",
  "instance": "/1706.03762v7.md",
  "code": "rate-limited"
}
```

Response example, 502:

```json
{
  "type": "https://arxivv.org/errors/upstream",
  "title": "Upstream error",
  "status": 502,
  "detail": "arXiv (or another upstream) returned an error",
  "instance": "/1706.03762v7.md",
  "code": "upstream"
}
```