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Search OpenAlex, the open catalog of 300M+ scholarly works, and export works, authors, institutions, journals or topics as clean JSON: DOI, authors with ORCID and affiliations, citations, open access links, topics and abstracts. No API key needed to start; add your free key for big exports.

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You can access the OpenAlex Research Papers, Authors & Institutions Export 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.

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OpenAPI

HTTP

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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    "searchQuery": "large language models",
10    "maxItems": 50,
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("kingly_contest_7cb/openalex-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
18for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

OpenAlex Scraper: Papers, Authors, Citations & Abstracts API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use OpenAlex Research Papers, Authors & Institutions Export API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

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OpenAlex Research Papers, Authors & Institutions Export API in JavaScript

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