📚 SciELO Scraper

Want SciELO journal 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.

SciELO is a large open library of journals from Latin America, Spain, Portugal, South Africa, and more. This actor returns up to 2000 rows per run.

💡 Perfect for...

• Researchers: Export articles by keyword, country library, subject, or year.
• Dashboards: Track new papers without paging the site.
• Literature reviews: Slice results by language, article type, or newest first.
• Data analysts: Export structured rows with public article URLs.
• 🤖 AI Agents: Power Claude, Cursor, Codex, the Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw workflows with live SciELO 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 SciELO search URL, or pick the same filters as the site. input_url always wins when set.
• 🎯 Website-Matched Filters: Keyword, collection, language, subject, article type, year, and sort.
• 🌐 Article cards: Title, authors, journal, collection, year, language, and the public article URL.

📦 What's inside the data?

id, url, title, authors, journal, collection, year, language

🚀 Quick start

Option A: paste https://search.scielo.org/?q=covid. Option B: type a keyword, pick Brazil or another collection, and set max_results.

Input Example (filters):

{
  "query": "covid",
  "collection": "scl",
  "subject": "Health Sciences",
  "max_results": 100
}

Input Example (URL):

{
  "input_url": "https://search.scielo.org/?q=dengue",
  "max_results": 100
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "S0102-311X2020001205001",
  "url": "https://www.scielo.br/j/csp/a/example/",
  "title": "COVID-19 in Brazil: a public health challenge",
  "authors": "Silva, Ana; Souza, Pedro",
  "journal": "Cadernos de Saúde Pública",
  "collection": "Brazil",
  "year": 2020,
  "language": "English, Portuguese"
}

Output fields:

Field	Description
id	Article id on SciELO.
url	Public article page.
title	Article title.
authors	Author names when shown.
journal	Journal name.
collection	Country or thematic library.
year	Publication year when shown.
language	Languages listed on the card.

📋 Input reference

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
input_url	string	No	—	SciELO search URL. Overrides every filter.
query	string	No	covid	Same as the site search box. Use * for everything.
collection	string enum	No	all	Brazil, Mexico, and the other SciELO libraries.
language	string enum	No	any	Article language.
subject	string enum	No	all	Thematic area such as Health Sciences.
article_type	string enum	No	all	Article, review, editorial, and similar types.
sort	string enum	No	newest	Relevance, newest, oldest, most cited, or most accessed.
year	integer	No	—	Exact publication year.
max_results	integer	No	50	Maximum rows (1–2000).