OpenAlex Scraper – Cheap 📚🪄✨

📚 OpenAlex Scraper – Research & Scholarly Data Extraction 🔍📊

Easily extract scholarly and research data from OpenAlex — one of the largest open catalogs of academic works, authors, institutions, sources, and funding data worldwide.

This Apify actor allows you to collect structured OpenAlex data with no coding required. Ideal for academic research, bibliometric analysis, funding intelligence, institutional analytics, and science mapping.

🔍 What This Scraper Does

Provide an entity type or search query, and the actor automatically handles the rest:

✅ Scrapes data from OpenAlex API and search results

✅ Supports multiple entity types: Works, Authors, Institutions, Sources, Funders

✅ Extracts publications, authorship, citations, affiliations, and funding data

✅ Handles pagination automatically

✅ Outputs structured, analysis-ready datasets

✅ Limits results to a defined maximum number of records

📦 Field Descriptions

Field	Description
🏷️ entityType	Entity type (Work, Author, Institution, Source, Funder)
📘 title	Title of the work or entity
🔗 entityUrl	Direct OpenAlex entity URL
📅 year	Publication or reference year
✍️ authors	Author names
📰 source	Journal, conference, or publisher
🌍 location	Geographic location
🧩 entitySubtype	Subtype (journal, conference, grant, etc.)
💰 fundingAmount	Funding amount (if available)
🏦 funderName	Funding organization name
🏫 institutionName	Affiliated institution
📈 countText	Citations count or works count
📝 subtitle	Full subtitle or extended description

🛠 How to Use the Scraper

Getting started is simple:

1️⃣ Deploy the actor on Apify

2️⃣ Choose an entity type (Works, Authors, Institutions, Funders…)

3️⃣ Optionally set Bulk search filters or keywords

4️⃣ Define the maximum number of results

5️⃣ Run the actor

6️⃣ Export the dataset in your preferred format

Supported export formats:

✅ JSON

✅ CSV

✅ Excel

✅ XML

✅ HTML

Use Cases 💡 Why Use This Scraper?

📚 Academic Research – Explore publications and citation networks

📊 Bibliometric Analysis – Analyze authors, journals, and institutions

🏫 Institutional Intelligence – Track research output and affiliations

💰 Funding Analysis – Monitor grants, funders, and funding trends

🧠 Science Mapping – Understand research domains and impact

📈 Data & BI Integration – Feed dashboards and analytics tools

💸 Pricing

This scraper operates on a monthly subscription model — you only pay for successful results.

💳 Price: $19.89 / month

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✏️ Input Schema Example

Use the following configuration to start scraping:

{
  "keywords": [
    "artificial intelligence",
    "machine learning",
    "climate change",
    "cancer research",
    "quantum computing",
    "renewable energy"
  ],
  "entity_type": "works",
  "max_items": 1000
}

Field	Description
keywords	List of search keywords
entity_type	works, authors, institutions, sources, funders
max_items	Maximum records to collect

📤 Output Example

{
  "entityType": "Work",
  "title": "Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare",
  "entityUrl": "https://openalex.org/W123456789",
  "year": 2024,
  "authors": [
    "John Smith",
    "Sarah Johnson"
  ],
  "source": "Nature Medicine",
  "location": "United States",
  "entitySubtype": "Journal Article",
  "institutionName": "Stanford University",
  "countText": "432 citations",
  "subtitle": "Applications and Future Directions"
}

📫 Support

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