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OpenAlex Scholar Search & Research Metadata

Search 200M+ scholarly works, authors, concepts, institutions, and venues through OpenAlex's keyless public API. Export citations, open-access status, concepts, and normalized research metadata.

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OpenAlex Scholar Search

Search 200M+ scholarly works, authors, concepts, institutions, and venues from OpenAlex's keyless public API. Unified metadata schema with citations, open-access status, and concept scoring..

What it does

Extracts ITEM_TYPE from URL_LIST
Outputs structured JSON (SCHEMA_LINK)
Handles pagination, retries, proxy rotation out of the box

Input

Field	Required	Description
`startUrls`	yes	List of URLs to scrape
`maxRequestsPerRun`	no	Cap on total requests (default 100)
`proxyConfiguration`	no	Proxy settings (default: Apify Proxy)

Output

One record per source page:

{
  "url": "...",
  "title": "...",
  "items": [...],
  "scrapedAt": "ISO-8601"
}

Pricing

Free tier: 100 runs/month. Pro: $X/mo.

Limitations

Static HTML only (no JS rendering — use the playwright template for SPAs).
Single-domain by default. Set enqueueLinks globs to crawl.

Changelog

0.1.0 — initial release.

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