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OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper

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Export academic works, authors, institutions, sources, and concepts from OpenAlexs open catalog of 250M+ scholarly records. Successor to Microsoft Academic Graph. Filter by author, concept, year, open access status, or affiliation.

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OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

Other API clients include:

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API in Python

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API in JavaScript

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper OpenAPI definition

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API

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