OpenAlex Scraper: Scholarly Works & Citations
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OpenAlex Scraper: Scholarly Works & Citations
Search scholarly works via the open OpenAlex catalogue: title, authors, institutions, citation counts, open-access status and reconstructed abstracts. No login, no proxy, no browser.
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Naimur Hasan
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OpenAlex Scraper
Searches scholarly works in OpenAlex, the open catalogue of papers, authors and institutions. No login, no proxy, no browser.
Input
| Field | Type | Notes |
|---|---|---|
query | string | Required. Full-text search. Default permafrost carbon feedback. |
fromYear | integer | Optional earliest publication year. |
openAccessOnly | boolean | Restrict to works with a free full text. Default false. |
includeAbstract | boolean | Rebuild the abstract. Default true. |
maxItems | integer | Cap on works. Default 50. |
Output
One row per work: title, doi, openAlexId, publicationYear,
publicationDate, type, firstAuthor, authors, authorCount,
institutions, venue, citedByCount, isOpenAccess, openAccessStatus,
openAccessUrl, isRetracted, topic, referencedWorksCount, and
abstract when requested.
Notes
- Abstracts are shipped as an inverted index, not as text. OpenAlex stores
{word: [positions]}for licensing reasons; this Actor rebuilds the prose from it. A word appearing at several positions is placed at each of them, and gaps in the index are skipped rather than becomingundefined. - DOIs come back as full
https://doi.org/…URLs. They are reduced to the bare DOI so the column joins against Crossref, DataCite and publisher exports without further cleaning. - Institutions are deduplicated across authorships — a paper with ten authors from one university lists that university once.
- Paging uses OpenAlex's cursor rather than page numbers, which is the only method that works past the 10,000th result.
