Google Scholar Scraper: Papers, Authors, Citations, BibTeX
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$5.00 / 1,000 result items
Search Google Scholar at scale. Pulls paper metadata, author affiliations, h-index, cited by counts, citing paper lists, BibTeX, and PDF links. One row per paper. Pay per row.
You can access the Google Scholar Scraper: Papers, Authors, Citations, BibTeX 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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