You can access the Openalex 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1from apify_client import ApifyClient
2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
6
7# Prepare the Actor input
8run_input = {}
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("fortuitous_pirate/openalex-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
16    print(item)
17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

Openalex Scraper API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Openalex Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Openalex Scraper API in JavaScript

Openalex Scraper API through CLI

Openalex Scraper OpenAPI definition

Openalex Scraper API

OpenAlex Academic Research Scraper

cynix_dev/openalex-research

Search 250M+ scholarly works, authors, institutions, and concepts from the OpenAlex API. Get titles, authors, citations, open access status, PDFs, and concepts. No API key required.

Cynix Dev

OpenAlex Scraper

crawlerbros/openalex-scraper

Scrape OpenAlex the free, open catalog of 250M+ scholarly works, authors, institutions, and concepts. Search papers, authors, or fetch by OpenAlex ID / DOI. Pulls citations, open-access status, abstracts, authorships, journals, topics, and more.

Crawler Bros

Scholarly Works Scraper — OpenAlex Research Papers

thriftykiwi/scholarly-works-scraper

Search 250M+ scholarly works from OpenAlex: titles, authors, citations, DOI, open access status, journals. Free API, no API key required. JSON output.

Thrifty Kiwi

OpenAlex Scholar Scraper

leorochasantos/openalex-scholar

Scrape scholarly works from OpenAlex's 250M+ open research graph. Search by keyword, filter by open access, and get authors, institutions, journal, year, citations, and DOI as clean typed JSON — no API key required.

Leonardo Santos

OpenAlex Scraper - Scholarly Works & Citations

scrapesage/openalex-scraper

Scrape scholarly works from OpenAlex (250M+ papers): title, DOI, authors, institutions, journal/venue, year, citation count, open-access status, topics and PDF link. Search any topic. No key, no browser. Independent tool, not affiliated with OpenAlex.

Scrape Sage

OpenAlex Works Scraper

neuton/openalex-works-scraper

Search OpenAlex works by query, DOI, or OpenAlex ID. Extract scholarly titles, authorships, concepts, institutions, venues, publication dates, citations, and open-access metadata.

Neuton Scripts

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper

parseforge/openalex-scraper

Scrapes OpenAlex scholarly works, authors, institutions, sources, concepts, publishers, and funders. Returns each record as a flat row with metadata, citations, and open access links.

ParseForge

5.0

OpenAlex — Academic Papers & Citations Search

omao/openalex

Search 250M+ scholarly works via OpenAlex into clean JSON: title, authors, venue, year, citation count, open-access status, PDF URL, concepts and reconstructed abstract. Powered by the public OpenAlex API. No API key.

Marouane Oulabass

OpenAlex Scraper

gio21/openalex-scraper

Scrape OpenAlex - the free open catalog of scholarly works (250M+ papers, 100M+ authors, 100K institutions). Search across works, authors, institutions, concepts, journals. Returns title, abstract, authors, citations, DOI, OA status, and more.

Gio

OpenAlex Scraper - Scholarly Works, Authors & Citations Graph

jungle_synthesizer/openalex-works-crawler

Scrape OpenAlex, the open scholarly graph with 250M+ works, 100M+ authors, and 120K+ institutions. Extract titles, abstracts, authors, ORCIDs, institutions, concepts, citations, open-access flags, and grants.