OpenAlex Paper Search
Pricing
from $1.50 / 1,000 paper results
Search 250M+ scholarly works via the official OpenAlex API (CC0 data). Filter by year, open access, citations; get DOI, venue, citation counts and open-access PDF links as clean rows.
You can access the OpenAlex Paper Search 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 API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1from apify_client import ApifyClient2
3# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.5client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")6
7# Prepare the Actor input8run_input = { "query": "\"large language models\" education" }9
10# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish11run = client.actor("petipeti/openalex-paper-search").call(run_input=run_input)12
13# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)14print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")15for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():16 print(item)17
18# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-startThe Apify API client for Python is the official library that allows you to use OpenAlex Paper Search API in Python, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$pip install apify-clientOther API clients include: