OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper
Pricing
$0.40 / 1,000 records
Scrape 250M+ scholarly works from OpenAlex by search query. Returns title, authors, institutions, journal, year, citations and DOI. No API key. Pay per paper; empty or failed runs cost nothing.
You can access the OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in Integrations settings in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "searchQueries": [12 "machine learning"13 ],14 "proxyConfiguration": {15 "useApifyProxy": false16 }17};18
19// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish20const run = await client.actor("chrisp1211/openalex-scraper-max").call(input);21
22// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)23console.log('Results from dataset');24console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);25const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();26items.forEach((item) => {27 console.dir(item);28});29
30// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: