OpenAlex Academic Research Scraper - Papers and Citations
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Search 250M+ scholarly works in OpenAlex and export title, abstract, authors, institutions, venue, year, DOI, citation count and open access link as JSON or CSV. A free Google Scholar alternative for research and AI agents. Pay per work.
You can access the OpenAlex Academic Research Scraper - Papers and Citations programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = {9 "query": "large language models",10 "maxResults": 20,11}12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish14run = client.actor("arqlabs/openalex-works-search").call(run_input=run_input)15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():19 print(item)20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use OpenAlex Academic Research Scraper - Papers and Citations API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: