You can access the Research Corpus & Citation Graph Builder 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.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "buyerQuery": "buyer-ready records with source evidence",
12    "taskIntent": "buyer-ready-product-run",
13    "sourceMode": "sample",
14    "outputMode": "sample-records",
15    "startUrls": [],
16    "requestTimeoutSecs": 30,
17    "maxRequestRetries": 2,
18    "sinceLastRun": false,
19    "deltaMode": true
20};
21
22// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
23const run = await client.actor("zentrafoundry/openalex-research-graph-builder").call(input);
24
25// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
26console.log('Results from dataset');
27console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
28const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
29items.forEach((item) => {
30    console.dir(item);
31});
32
33// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

Build Research Datasets from OpenAlex, Crossref, Semantic Sc API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use Research Corpus & Citation Graph Builder API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

Research Corpus & Citation Graph Builder API in Python

Research Corpus & Citation Graph Builder API through CLI

Research Corpus & Citation Graph Builder OpenAPI definition

Research Corpus & Citation Graph Builder API

Common Crawl Corpus Builder

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Ai Citation Auditor

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Darren S

Citation Generator API

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dev00

Website Links Graph Generator

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Crawler Bros

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Academic Paper Scraper

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Search MILLIONS of academic papers from Semantic Scholar and arXiv by keyword, DOI, or citation graph. Returns titles, authors, abstracts, citation counts, and open access PDFs as clean JSON. Works as an MCP tool for AI agents.

mick_

OpenAlex Research Graph Scraper API - Works & Authors

pink_comic/openalex-research-graph

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Open Citations Scraper

parseforge/open-citations-scraper

Comprehensive OpenCitations scraper for extracting citation and reference data from OpenCitations API. Perfect for researchers, academics, and data scientists who need automated access to citation networks, bibliographic metadata, and citation analysis data.

ParseForge

Google Knowledge Graph

seemuapps/google-knowledge-graph

Enrich a list of entity names (people, companies, places, things) with metadata from the Google Knowledge Graph.

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Open Graph & Link Preview Extractor

mighty_monk/open-graph-extractor

Extract Open Graph, Twitter Card, and meta tags from any URL in bulk. Build link previews, social cards, and unfurl data for your apps and automation workflows.

Harsh

Pubmed Citation Scraper

parseforge/pubmed-citation-scraper

Automate collection of detailed citation information from the world's largest biomedical literature database. Extract complete citation data including titles, authors, abstracts, publication dates, journals, DOIs, MeSH terms, and more from NCBI's PubMed database.

ParseForge

5.0