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Open Citations Scraper

Comprehensive OpenCitations scraper for extracting citation and reference data from OpenCitations API. Perfect for researchers, academics, and data scientists who need automated access to citation networks, bibliographic metadata, and citation analysis data.

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You can access the Open Citations 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 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    "maxItems": 10,
10    "doi": "10.1016/j.jmb.2005.08.075",
11}
12
13# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
14run = client.actor("parseforge/open-citations-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)
15
16# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
17print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
18for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
19    print(item)
20
21# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

OpenCitations Scraper - Citation and Reference Data API in Python

The Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use Open Citations Scraper API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$pip install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Open Citations Scraper API in JavaScript

Open Citations Scraper API through CLI

Open Citations Scraper OpenAPI definition

Open Citations Scraper API

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