Unpaywall Scraper
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Unpaywall Scraper
Discover open access research articles with our powerful Unpaywall scraper! Search through millions of articles in the Unpaywall database to find free-to-read scholarly publications. Perfect for researchers, librarians, and academics who need to find and access open access articles efficiently.
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📚 Unpaywall Scraper
🚀 Find open-access versions of academic papers in minutes. Search by keyword or DOI. Export paper titles, authors, DOIs, and free PDF links. No coding, no API key required.
The Unpaywall Scraper finds free, legal, open-access versions of academic papers using the Unpaywall database. Search by keyword or DOI and get back paper metadata plus direct links to open-access PDFs when available. Filter for open-access papers only.
Unpaywall tracks over 30 million free-to-read scholarly articles. This Actor exports structured open-access paper data for research, library services, and academic workflows.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Academic researchers, librarians, data scientists, science journalists, open-access advocates | Open access paper discovery, PDF sourcing, literature reviews, institutional repository enrichment |
📋 What the Unpaywall Scraper does
- 🔍 Keyword search. Free-text search for papers.
- 🆔 DOI lookup. Search by specific DOI.
- 📄 Open access filter. Return only papers with free PDFs.
💡 Why it matters: finding free legal versions of paywalled papers means checking multiple repositories. This Actor queries Unpaywall's index and returns direct PDF links when available.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: authors, bestOaLocation, citedByCount, dataStandard, doi, doiUrl, firstOaLocation, genre, hasRepositoryCopy, isOa, journalIsInDoaj, journalIsOa, journalName, oaLocations, oaStatus, publisher, referencedWorks, score, scrapedTimestamp, snippet, title, updated, year. All 23 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit.
- 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Unpaywall Scraper page.
- 🎯 Set input. Enter keywords or DOIs, toggle OA filter.
- 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
- 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab.
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⚠️ Disclaimer: Independent tool, not affiliated with Unpaywall or Our Research. Only publicly available open-access metadata is collected.
🆘 Need Help?
If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.
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