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from $2.00 / 1,000 work returneds

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper

Searches OpenAlex (250M+ scholarly works) by keyword and returns structured records: title, authors, institutions, venue, year, citation count, concepts, open-access link, and the full reconstructed abstract for literature reviews.

Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 work returneds

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Dami's Studio

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Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
`query`	string	— (required)	Keywords to search (title, abstract, fulltext), e.g. `machine learning`.
`sort`	string	`relevance`	`relevance`, `citations` (most cited first), or `date` (newest first).
`fromDate`	string	—	Optional `YYYY-MM-DD`; only works published on/after this date.
`filter`	string	—	Optional raw OpenAlex filter, e.g. `type:article,is_oa:true`. Merged with `fromDate`.
`maxItems`	integer	`100`	Max works to return (50 fetched per page via cursor).
`proxyConfiguration`	object	`{ "useApifyProxy": false }`	Optional. Not needed — OpenAlex is a clean public API.

Example input

{
  "query": "crispr",
  "sort": "citations",
  "fromDate": "2020-01-01",
  "maxItems": 120
}

Output

One row per work:

{
  "ok": true,
  "openalexId": "https://openalex.org/W...",
  "doi": "https://doi.org/10....",
  "title": "…",
  "authors": ["Jane Doe", "John Roe"],
  "institutions": ["Some University"],
  "year": 2021,
  "publicationDate": "2021-05-03",
  "type": "article",
  "venue": "Nature",
  "citations": 1234,
  "concepts": ["Biology", "Genetics"],
  "isOpenAccess": true,
  "oaUrl": "https://…pdf",
  "abstract": "Reconstructed abstract text…",
  "url": "https://openalex.org/W..."
}

abstract is rebuilt from OpenAlex's abstract_inverted_index; when no abstract is indexed it is null. Results are deduplicated by openalexId.

Diagnostics & billing

On failure or no results, the actor pushes a single diagnostic row (ok:false) with an errorCode (BAD_INPUT, NO_RESULTS, RATE_LIMITED, SERVER_ERROR, NETWORK) instead of failing silently. Only successful work rows are charged (one work unit each) — diagnostics and empty results are never billed.

Data source

Data comes from OpenAlex, released under CC0. Please cite OpenAlex when you use it.

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