📚 Redalyc Scraper

Want Redalyc open-access articles in a spreadsheet? This scraper makes it easy.

Use structured filters — better for AI agents — or paste an input_url. When input_url is set it overrides the filters.

Redalyc hosts Latin American scientific journals. Journal 140 (Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa) has 106 issues. This actor walks those issues, then other homepage journals if you need more rows, and returns up to 2000 articles per run.

💡 Perfect for...

• Researchers: Export articles, authors, and years from Redalyc journals.
• Dashboards: Track new issues without paging the site.
• Literature reviews: Pull titles and PDF links from a journal collection.
• Data analysts: Export structured rows with public article URLs.
• 🤖 AI Agents: Power Claude, Cursor, Codex, the Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw workflows with live Redalyc results.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Feed titles, authors, and journals into retrieval pipelines.
• 🔗 AI Workflows: Plug into LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, and similar stacks.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🔗 Input URL or Filters: Paste a journal, issue, or article URL, or type a journal id. input_url always wins when set.
• 🎯 Website-Matched Browse: Starts at the journal you pick (default 140), walks every issue on the collection page, then continues through other journals from the homepage.
• 🌐 Article cards: Title, authors, journal, year, PDF link when shown, and public URL.

📦 What's inside the data?

id, url, title, authors, journal, year, pdf_url

🚀 Quick start

Option A: paste https://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=140. Option B: set journal_id to 140 and max_results.

Input Example (filters):

{
  "journal_id": "140",
  "max_results": 100
}

Input Example (URL):

{
  "input_url": "https://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=140&tipo=coleccion",
  "max_results": 100
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "14084884001",
  "url": "https://www.redalyc.org/journal/140/14084884001/",
  "title": "LA RMIE: Producto de un trabajo de la comunidad de investigadores educativos",
  "authors": "Yazmín Cuevas Cajiga",
  "journal": "Revista Mexicana de Investigación Educativa",
  "year": 2026,
  "pdf_url": "https://www.redalyc.org/journal/140/14084884001/14084884001.pdf"
}

Output fields:

Field	Description
id	Redalyc article id.
url	Public article page.
title	Article title.
authors	Author names when shown.
journal	Journal title.
year	Publication year when shown.
pdf_url	PDF link when the issue lists one.

📋 Input reference

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
input_url	string	No	—	Journal (revista.oa?id=), issue, or article (journal/ / articulo.oa?id=) URL. Overrides every filter.
journal_id	string	No	140	Journal number from the Redalyc journal page.
discipline	string enum	No	all	Subject area label (Administration … Multidisciplinary). Area pages do not list journals, so the actor still crawls the journal id and homepage journals.
max_results	integer	No	50	Maximum rows (1–2000).