Google Scholar Scraper — Papers, Authors, Cites

What does Google Scholar Scraper do?

Scrape Google Scholar at scale — papers, author profiles, author citation charts, and citation format exports (MLA / APA / Chicago / BibTeX / RIS).

Why use Google Scholar Scraper?

• Five modes. Search Papers, Search Author Profiles, Get Author Profile (with articles), Get Author Citation Chart, Get Paper Citation Formats.
• Year range filter. as_ylo / as_yhi for date-bound literature reviews.
• Citation export. Direct MLA / APA / Chicago / Harvard / Vancouver + BibTeX / RIS.
• Author citation chart. Per-year citation counts for academic impact tracking.
• Cheapest scholar actor on Apify. $0.70 / 1k papers.

What data can Google Scholar Scraper extract?

Field	Type	Description
record_type	string	paper / author / article / citation_chart_point / citation_format
title	string	Paper / author name
authors	string	Author list
publication	string	Journal / venue
cited_by	number	Citation count
year	number	Publication year
link	string	Paper URL
snippet	string	Abstract preview
cluster_id	string	Google Scholar's paper ID
author_id	string	Google Scholar's author ID

How to scrape Google Scholar

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick mode.
3. For Search Papers: enter q, optional as_ylo / as_yhi year range.
4. For Author Profile: enter author_id.
5. For Citation Formats: enter q (cluster_id).
6. Click Start — papers / authors stream into the dataset.

How much will it cost?

$0.007 per page (list modes) · $0.003 per single-shot call. ≈ $0.70 per 1,000 papers. Author chart / cite format = single-shot $0.003 each.

Competitor benchmark

Actor	Author	Price	Notes
easyapi/google-scholar-scraper	easyapi	~$10 / 1k papers	Search-only
scrapestorm/google-scholar-scraper	ScrapeStorm	~$8.99 / 1k	Search-only
marco_gullo/google-scholar	Marco Gullo	Variable	Per-run
scrape-badger/google-scholar-scraper	ScrapeBadger	$0.70 / 1k papers	5 modes in one actor

Input

Configure the run in the Input tab above, or pass a JSON object matching the fields below when calling the Actor via the Apify API.

Field	Required	Description
mode	✅	One of 5 modes.
q	Search modes	Query (keyword / cluster_id / author name).
author_id	Author modes	Google Scholar author ID.
as_ylo / as_yhi	—	Year range filter.
as_sdt	—	Article type filter.
num / page	—	Pagination.
mauthors	Search Author Profiles	Author name query.
cstart / pagesize	Get Author Profile articles	Pagination.

Output

Every successful run streams records into the run's dataset. Download as JSON, CSV, XML, Excel, or HTML from the Dataset tab; consume programmatically via the Apify API or webhooks.

Example record:

{
  "record_type": "paper",
  "title": "Attention Is All You Need",
  "authors": "Vaswani, Ashish et al.",
  "publication": "NeurIPS 2017",
  "cited_by": 98234,
  "year": 2017,
  "link": "https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762",
  "snippet": "The dominant sequence transduction models\u2026",
  "cluster_id": "1234567890"
}

Tips / Advanced options

• Use as_ylo for literature reviews. Bound by date — e.g. as_ylo: 2020 for post-2020 ML papers.
• Citation chart for academic impact. Per-year citation counts — perfect for tenure-track impact reports.
• BibTeX export for reference managers. Get Paper Citation Formats → BibTeX → drop into Zotero / Mendeley.
• Dedupe by cluster_id. Same paper on arXiv + journal + preprint server — Google merges by cluster_id.

FAQ, Disclaimers, Support

What's cluster_id?

Google Scholar's internal paper identifier. All versions (arXiv, journal, preprint) of the same paper share a cluster_id.

How do I find author_id?

Run Search Author Profiles first — each returned author has an author_id. Or grab it from the author's profile URL (&user=…).

Does this include PDF text?

No — only Scholar's metadata (title, authors, snippet, link). Download the PDF from link separately.

What's the citation count source?

Google Scholar's own cited_by count. Differs from Web of Science / Scopus / OpenCitations.

Disclaimer

This Actor scrapes public Google data only. You're responsible for compliance with Google's Terms of Service and any applicable data-protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) in your jurisdiction. ScrapeBadger does not store the scraped results — they are delivered directly to your Apify dataset.

Support

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