🔬 OpenAIRE Research Publications Scraper

🚀 Export open access research papers from OpenAIRE with abstracts, DOIs, and author data in seconds. No login required. No API key. Pure open science.

The OpenAIRE Research Publications Scraper extracts structured metadata from OpenAIRE Explore, the European Open Science platform aggregating research outputs from thousands of repositories, journals, and data sources worldwide. All data is pulled in real time from the OpenAIRE public API.

OpenAIRE indexes over 100 million research objects from PubMed, arXiv, Crossref, DBLP, Zenodo, and institutional repositories across 180+ countries. This Actor lets you query by keyword and year range to pull down publication metadata at scale, covering academic papers, conference proceedings, books, preprints, and datasets.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Academic researchers, data scientists, science journalists, grant managers, librarians, startups	Literature reviews, NLP training corpora, publication trend tracking, grant compliance reporting, discovery system feeds, research landscape mapping

📋 What the OpenAIRE Scraper does

• 🔎 Keyword search. Full-text search across titles, abstracts, and metadata.
• 📅 Year filtering. Narrow to exact publication date ranges with fromYear / toYear.
• 🧾 Rich metadata. Title, DOI, authors, abstract, publisher, year, access type, language.
• 🔁 Auto pagination. 25 results per request, paginated up to your maxItems target.
• 🔗 Source link back. Every record points to the OpenAIRE Explore page for full detail.
• 🛑 Clean free tier. Free users get a 10-record preview before upgrading.

💡 Why it matters: OpenAIRE is the most comprehensive open science aggregator in the world, mandated by the European Commission. No other source indexes this breadth of research in a single queryable API.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: abstract, accessType, authors, doi, language, openAireId, publisher, results, scrapedAt, title, url, year. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the OpenAIRE Research Publications Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter your searchQuery, optional year range, and maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by OpenAIRE or the European Commission. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data from the OpenAIRE public API is collected. Data accuracy depends on what depositors provide to OpenAIRE.

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