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OpenAlex Scraper - Scholarly Works, Authors & Citations Graph

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.

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You can access the OpenAlex Scraper - Scholarly Works, Authors & Citations Graph 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 Integrations settings in Apify Console.

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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    "sp_intended_usage": "Describe your intended use...",
10    "sp_improvement_suggestions": "Share your suggestions here...",
11    "sp_contact": "Share your email here...",
12    "entityType": "works",
13    "query": "machine learning",
14    "yearFrom": 0,
15    "yearTo": 0,
16    "openAccessOnly": False,
17    "workType": "",
18    "concept": "",
19    "institutionCountry": "",
20    "venueIssn": "",
21    "reconstructAbstract": True,
22    "politeEmail": "",
23    "maxItems": 100,
24}
25
26# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
27run = client.actor("jungle_synthesizer/openalex-works-crawler").call(run_input=run_input)
28
29# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
30print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
31for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
32    print(item)
33
34# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

OpenAlex Scraper - Scholarly Papers & Citation Data API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use OpenAlex Scraper - Scholarly Works, Authors & Citations Graph API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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OpenAlex Scraper - Scholarly Works, Authors & Citations Graph OpenAPI definition

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