OpenAlex Scraper - Scholarly Works & Citations
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from $1.10 / 1,000 work scrapeds
OpenAlex Scraper - Scholarly Works & Citations
Scrape scholarly works from OpenAlex (250M+ papers): title, DOI, authors, institutions, journal/venue, year, citation count, open-access status, topics and PDF link. Search any topic. No key, no browser.
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OpenAlex Scraper - Scholarly Works & Citations
Search OpenAlex - an open catalog of 250M+ scholarly works - and get clean rows for every paper: title, DOI, authors, institutions, venue/journal, year, citation count, open-access status, topics and a PDF link where available. Search any topic, or use OpenAlex filter syntax. Built on the official API - no key, no browser.
What you get per work
| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
title / doi / openAlexUrl | Title, DOI, and the OpenAlex record |
authors / authorCount / institutions | Authors and their institutions |
venue / venueType | Journal / repository / conference |
publicationYear / publicationDate / workType | Dates and type (article, preprint, dataset…) |
citedByCount / referencedWorksCount | Citations received and references made |
isOpenAccess / oaStatus / pdfUrl | Open-access status and free full-text link |
topics / language | Concepts/topics and language |
Input
- Search queries - one per line (searches titles, abstracts and full text).
- Filter - or use an OpenAlex filter expression, e.g.
publication_year:2024,is_oa:true. - Import from a file - paste a list, or link a public
.txt/.csv, a Google Sheet/Drive link, or an Apify key-value-store record. - Sort by relevance, most cited, or newest. Max works bound the run. Output fields trim it.
Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.
Reliability
Reads the official OpenAlex API - public, no key, no proxy, no anti-bot, cursor-paginated for deep result sets. A run that returns nothing bills $0.
Honest limits
- Metadata and links, not full text. You get the record and (for open-access works) a
pdfUrl; closed-access works have alandingPageUrlat the publisher instead. pdfUrlis present only for open-access works - it reflects the work's OA status, not a scraping gap.
Pricing
$0.002 per work on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only works actually saved are billed; an empty run costs nothing.
Output views
- Works - title, authors, venue, year, citations, OA status, DOI and the PDF link.
Use with AI assistants (MCP)
Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can pull the most-cited or newest works on a topic (with DOIs and citation counts) for a review or a RAG index.
Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)
This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:
- x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
- Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.
Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.
