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from $0.0005 / work scraped

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper

Search 250M+ academic papers via OpenAlex: title, abstract, authors, institutions, venue, citation count, DOI, open-access status and topics. Filter by year, type and open access. For research, R&D and lit reviews. No key.

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from $0.0005 / work scraped

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hiper soft

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You can access the OpenAlex Scholarly Works 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 = { "searchTerms": ["machine learning"] }
9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
11run = client.actor("hipersoft/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 — Papers, Citations & Abstracts API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use OpenAlex Scholarly Works 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 Scholarly Works Scraper API in JavaScript

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API through CLI

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper OpenAPI definition

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API

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