OpenAlex Scraper | 20 Fields, Citations & OA, No API Key
Pricing
from $0.60 / 1,000 work scrapeds
Scrape 250M+ scholarly papers from OpenAlex as clean JSON. Filter by topic, year, citations, open access & type. Get authors, venues, abstracts. No API key. Use in Claude, ChatGPT & any MCP agent for literature reviews & RAG.
You can access the OpenAlex Scraper | 20 Fields, Citations & OA, No API Key programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token5const client = new ApifyClient({6 token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',7});8
9// Prepare Actor input10const input = {11 "searchTerm": "large language models",12 "workType": "article",13 "maxResults": 2514};15
16// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish17const run = await client.actor("themineworks/openalex-scholarly-works").call(input);18
19// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)20console.log('Results from dataset');21console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);22const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();23items.forEach((item) => {24 console.dir(item);25});26
27// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docsThe Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use OpenAlex Scraper | 20 Fields, Citations & OA, No API Key API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Install the apify-client
$npm install apify-clientOther API clients include: