Hal Open Archive Scraper
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Pay per usage
Search and extract French research paper records from the HAL Open Archive by title, author, year, and URI. Save clean metadata rows without manual browsing, and export your results directly to JSON, CSV, or Excel format.
You can access the Hal Open Archive Scraper 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 "mode": "search",10 "query": "climate",11 "fields": "docid,halId_s,title_s,authFullName_s,abstract_s,docType_s,doiId_s,journalTitle_s,producedDateY_i,publicationDate_s,language_s,domain_s,openAccess_bool,uri_s,fileMain_s",12 "maxItems": 100,13 "timeoutSecs": 300,14 "requestTimeoutSecs": 60,15 "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True },16}17
18# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish19run = client.actor("bigibyte/hal-open-archive-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)20
21# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)22print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")23for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():24 print(item)25
26# 📚 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 Hal Open Archive Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: