🔍 Google Scholar Scraper
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You can access the 🔍 Google Scholar Scraper 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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One per line. Required.", "items": { "type": "string" } }, "maxItems": { "title": "📊 Max items per query", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 10000, "type": "integer", "description": "Maximum number of papers to fetch per query.", "default": 10 }, "filter": { "title": "🧰 Result filter", "enum": [ "all", "has_pdf", "open_access", "recent_5_years" ], "type": "string", "description": "Restrict results by availability or recency.", "default": "all" }, "newerThan": { "title": "🕐 Newer than (year)", "minimum": 1800, "maximum": 2100, "type": "integer", "description": "Scrape only articles from this year on. Effective only when not sorting by date. Example: 2020 keeps everything published in 2020 or later." }, "olderThan": { "title": "🕒 Older than (year)", "minimum": 1800, "maximum": 2100, "type": "integer", "description": "Scrape articles up to this year. Effective only when not sorting by date. Example: 2024 keeps everything published in 2024 or earlier." }, "sortBy": { "title": "🔃 Sort results by", "enum": [ "relevance", "cited_by_count" ], "type": "string", "description": "How to order the final results.", "default": "relevance" }, "articleType": { "title": "📑 Article type", "enum": [ "any", "journal", "conference", "book", "preprint" ], "type": "string", "description": "Restrict to a specific article type.", "default": "any" }, "enableDebugDumps": { "title": "🐞 Enable debug dumps", "type": "boolean", "description": "Store a dump of every API response (OpenAlex + Semantic Scholar) into the default key-value store so you can inspect what was fetched. Useful for troubleshooting.", "default": false }, "proxyConfiguration": { "title": "🌐 Proxy Configuration", "type": "object", "description": "By default the actor connects directly. If a request is blocked or rate-limited, it auto-escalates to a Datacenter proxy, then to a Residential proxy (with 3 retries). 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