Crossref Scraper — Bulk Scholarly Works, DOIs, Citations & Metadata

Bulk-scrape scholarly metadata from Crossref, the DOI registry indexing 150M+ works across virtually every academic publisher. Get DOIs, titles, authors (with ORCID), journals, publishers, publication dates, citation counts, references, ISSNs, subjects and abstracts. Full-text search plus date and type filters. Thousands of results per run. No account, no API key.

Features

• 🔎 Full-text search — across titles, authors, journals and more
• 📅 Date filters — from/until publication date
• 🗂️ Type filter — journal-article, book-chapter, proceedings-article, dataset, preprint…
• 🔗 DOIs + citation counts — is-referenced-by-count per work, plus reference counts
• 👥 Authors with ORCID + affiliation
• 🧾 Abstracts — when the publisher deposits them (coverage varies)
• 📊 Bulk & deep-paginated — cursor paging scales to hundreds of thousands of records

What you get

One record per work:

{
  "doi": "10.1089/crispr.2018.29011.rba",
  "title": "Cultivating CRISPR",
  "type": "journal-article",
  "authors": [{ "name": "Rodolphe Barrangou", "given": "Rodolphe", "family": "Barrangou", "orcid": null, "affiliation": [] }],
  "journal": "The CRISPR Journal",
  "publisher": "SAGE Publications",
  "publishedYear": 2018,
  "citationCount": 12,
  "referenceCount": 0,
  "issn": "2573-1599",
  "subjects": [],
  "url": "https://doi.org/10.1089/crispr.2018.29011.rba",
  "abstract": null
}

Input

{
  "query": "crispr gene editing",
  "fromDate": "2020-01-01",
  "type": "journal-article",
  "maxResults": 5000
}

Field	Description
query	Free-text search (blank = browse by filters only).
fromDate / toDate	Publication date range.
type	Crossref work type filter.
hasAbstractOnly	Only works that include an abstract.
maxResults	Max works to return.
mailto	Your email — joins Crossref's faster "polite pool".

Use cases

• Literature reviews & bibliometrics — pull every work on a topic with citation counts
• Research databases — build DOI/metadata datasets at scale
• Citation analysis — rank works and authors by impact
• Publisher / journal monitoring — track new output by type and date

Pricing

Pay-per-event: a small amount per work scraped. See the Pricing tab for current rates.

FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. This Actor uses the public Crossref REST API — no account, login or API key needed. You can optionally add your email via mailto to join Crossref's faster "polite pool".

How many works can I scrape per run? Set maxResults as high as you need — cursor paging scales to hundreds of thousands of records per run, so you can pull an entire topic or date range in one go.

Is scraping Crossref legal? Yes. Crossref openly publishes DOI and citation metadata through its REST API, and this Actor reads only those public records and returns them as-is.

What format is the output? Structured JSON — one record per work — exportable as JSON, CSV or Excel. Each record includes DOI, title, authors with ORCID, journal, publisher, publication year, citation count, references and (where deposited) an abstract.

Can I filter by date or work type? Yes. Use fromDate/toDate for a publication date range, type to keep only journal-article, book-chapter, dataset, preprint etc., and hasAbstractOnly to return only works that include an abstract.

Related Actors

Building a citation or metadata dataset? These other hipersoft scrapers pair well with this one:

• OpenAlex Scraper — 250M+ scholarly works with citations, authors and abstracts
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• arXiv Papers Scraper — preprints with full abstracts and PDF links

Notes

Uses the public Crossref REST API. Returns Crossref's openly-available metadata as-is. This is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Crossref.