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OpenAlex Scraper - Academic Papers & Citations

OpenAlex Scraper to search 250M+ academic papers via the free OpenAlex API. Extract title, authors, institutions, year, venue, DOI, citation count, open-access status, concepts and PDF links. Filter by year and open access. For literature reviews, citation analysis and AI/RAG datasets.

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OpenAlex Scraper — Academic Papers & Citations

Search OpenAlex — a free, open index of over 250 million scholarly works.

Built for literature reviews, research analytics, citation analysis, and academic databases. Keyless, fast and reliable — no proxy or browser needed.

What you get

Per work:

title, id, doi
publication_year, publication_date, type, language
authors, author_count, institutions
venue, venue_type
cited_by_count
is_open_access, open_access_url
landing_page_url, pdf_url
concepts (topics)
search_query, scraped_at

Why this Actor

	OpenAlex Scraper	Manual search	Paid databases
250M+ works, free data	Yes	—	$$$
Citations + open access	Yes	Slow	Varies
Filter by year / OA	Yes	Manual	Varies
Pay per result	Yes	—	Subscription

Input

Field	Type	Description
`searchQuery`	string	Topic or keyword
`fromYear` / `toYear`	integer	Publication year range
`openAccessOnly`	boolean	Only open-access works
`sortBy`	string	Relevance / Most Cited / Newest
`maxResults`	integer	Max works to return

Example input

{
  "searchQuery": "machine learning",
  "fromYear": 2018,
  "sortBy": "citations",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Sample output

{
  "title": "Random Forests",
  "authors": ["Leo Breiman"],
  "publication_year": 2001,
  "venue": "Machine Learning",
  "type": "article",
  "cited_by_count": 124485,
  "is_open_access": true,
  "doi": "https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1010933404324"
}

Use cases

Literature reviews — gather and rank relevant papers fast
Research analytics — analyse citations, venues and trends
Academic databases — build topic and author corpora
Bibliometrics — measure impact across fields and years

Pricing

Pay-per-result. You are charged only for the works returned — empty runs cost nothing.

Notes & legal

Uses the free OpenAlex API. A polite contact email is sent to use the fast pool.
Use data only for lawful purposes.

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