📄 Research Square Scraper

Want Research Square scientific preprints 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.

Research Square hosts over 480,000 public preprints across biology, medicine, physics, and engineering. This actor returns up to 2000 rows per run.

💡 Perfect for...

• Researchers: Track new preprints by title, author, abstract, subject area, or journal.
• Dashboards: Monitor peer-review status (under-review, in-revision, published-in-journal).
• Literature reviews: Slice preprints by date range and article type.
• Data analysts: Export structured rows with DOIs and public article links.
• 🤖 AI Agents: Power Claude, Cursor, Codex, the Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw workflows with live Research Square results.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Feed preprint titles, authors, journals, and DOIs 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 Research Square browse or article URL, or pick the same filters as the site. input_url always wins when set.
• 🎯 Website-Matched Filters: Title, author, abstract, keyword, publication status, article type, subject area, journal, and date range.
• 🌐 Preprint metadata: Title, author list, journal, review status, version, DOI, and subject areas.

📦 What's inside the data?

id, url, title, authors, author_list, posted, status, article_type, journal, journal_slug, version, doi, doi_url, subject_areas

🚀 Quick start

Option A: paste https://www.researchsquare.com/browse. Option B: enter a title keyword, subject area, or status and set max_results.

Input Example (filters):

{
  "title": "cancer",
  "status": "posted",
  "max_results": 100
}

Input Example (URL):

{
  "input_url": "https://www.researchsquare.com/browse?title=crispr",
  "max_results": 100
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "rs-11068462",
  "url": "https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-11068462/v1",
  "title": "When the wild type hits the ceiling: identifiability of mutation–lineage interactions in pharmacogenomic panels",
  "authors": "Jun Bao, Tianyu Wang, Chao Song",
  "author_list": ["Jun Bao", "Tianyu Wang", "Chao Song"],
  "posted": "2026-10-13T18:18:23Z",
  "status": "under-review",
  "article_type": "Research Article",
  "journal": "BMC Bioinformatics",
  "journal_slug": "bmc-bioinformatics",
  "version": 1,
  "doi": "10.21203/rs.3.rs-11068462/v1",
  "doi_url": "https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-11068462/v1",
  "subject_areas": ["Biological sciences/Cell biology"]
}

Output fields:

Field	Description
id	Research Square article identity (rs-...).
url	Public preprint page.
title	Preprint title.
authors	Comma-separated author names.
author_list	List of individual author names.
posted	Date and time the preprint was posted.
status	Review status (posted, under-review, in-revision, published-in-journal).
article_type	Article type such as Research Article or Systematic Review.
journal	Target or associated journal title.
journal_slug	Journal identifier slug.
version	Preprint version number.
doi	Digital Object Identifier.
doi_url	Full DOI resolver link.
subject_areas	Subject area classifications when shown.

📋 Input reference

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
input_url	string	No	—	Research Square browse or article URL. Overrides every filter.
title	string	No	—	Words in the preprint title.
author	string	No	—	Author name.
abstract	string	No	—	Words in the abstract.
keyword	string	No	—	Keyword filter.
status	dropdown	No	all	All, Posted, Under Review, Under Revision, Published.
article_type	dropdown	No	all	Research Article, Systematic Review, Case Report, Method Article, etc.
subject_area	string	No	—	Subject area name such as Cell Biology or Neuroscience.
journal	string	No	—	Journal slug such as scientific-reports.
posted_after	string	No	—	Earliest date (YYYY-MM-DD).
posted_before	string	No	—	Latest date (YYYY-MM-DD).
max_results	integer	No	50	Maximum rows (1–2000).