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Scrape research articles, datasets, code, figures, and more from Figshare using its public REST API — no authentication or proxy required.

What It Does

This actor extracts metadata and content information from Figshare, one of the world's largest open research data repositories. It supports full-text keyword search, direct article ID lookup, and institution-specific article browsing across all Figshare content types.

Key Features

• No authentication required — uses the public Figshare API
• Three modes: keyword search, fetch by ID, or browse by institution
• Filter by content type: datasets, papers, theses, code, figures, presentations, and more
• Full detail extraction: authors, categories, tags, license, files, DOI
• HTML description stripping — descriptions are returned as clean plain text
• Automatic pagination — retrieves up to 1,000 results per run

Input Fields

Item Types

Output Fields

Each item in the dataset contains:

Example Output

{
"articleId":32513898,
"title":"Perspectives of Allied Health Professionals on Digital Health Services in South Australia",
"description":"This research project explores the perspectives of allied health professionals on digital health services in South Australia.",
"doi":"10.25909/32513898.v1",
"publishedDate":"2026-05-30T02:03:44Z",
"modifiedDate":"2026-05-30T02:03:44Z",
"authors":["Muhammad Khan"],
"tags":["digital health activism"],
"categories":["Audiology","Occupational therapy","Physiotherapy","Speech pathology"],
"license":"CC BY 4.0",
"figshareUrl":"https://adelaide.figshare.com/articles/poster/...",
"sourceUrl":"https://adelaide.figshare.com/articles/poster/...",
"thumbUrl":"https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/ppreviews-adelaide-.../thumb.png",
"downloadUrl":"https://ndownloader.figshare.com/files/65104542",
"itemType":"poster",
"citation":"Khan, Muhammad (2026). Perspectives of Allied Health...",
"recordType":"article",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-30T10:00:00.000000+00:00"
}

Use Cases

• Research discovery: Find datasets or papers by keyword across all disciplines
• Data science: Collect open datasets for analysis and modeling
• Literature reviews: Gather papers, theses, and preprints by topic
• Institution profiling: Browse all public outputs from a specific university
• Open science auditing: Track open data and code availability by subject
• Citation analysis: Collect DOIs for downstream citation graph work

FAQs

Q: Does this require an API key? A: No. The Figshare public API is freely accessible without authentication.

Q: How many results can I get? A: Up to 1,000 per run. Figshare hosts millions of items.

Q: What does searchByInstitution mode do? A: It retrieves all public articles published by a specific institution on Figshare. You need the institution's numeric ID (e.g., University of Manchester = 2).

Q: Are descriptions HTML-free? A: Yes. The actor strips all HTML tags from descriptions, returning clean plain text.

Q: Why is viewCount sometimes absent? A: The Figshare public API does not always return view/citation statistics in the article detail endpoint. The field is only included when the data is available.

Q: Can I search for code repositories? A: Yes — set itemType to 8 (Code) and use any keyword in searchQuery.

Q: How fresh is the data? A: The Figshare API returns live data. New uploads appear within minutes of publication.