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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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ParseForge

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You can access the OpenAlex Scholarly Works 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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OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "maxItems": 10,
12    "entity": "works",
13    "search": "machine learning"
14};
15
16// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
17const run = await client.actor("parseforge/openalex-scraper").call(input);
18
19// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
20console.log('Results from dataset');
21console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
22const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
23items.forEach((item) => {
24    console.dir(item);
25});
26
27// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

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OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API in Python

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API through CLI

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper OpenAPI definition

OpenAlex Scholarly Works Scraper API

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