OSF Preprints Scraper

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Scrape preprints from the Open Science Framework (OSF) using its public REST API — no authentication or proxy required.

What It Does

This actor extracts preprint metadata from OSF's preprint archive, which hosts over 190,000 open-access scholarly works across disciplines including psychology, medicine, social sciences, engineering, and more. It supports filtering by tags, subjects, and provider, as well as direct ID-based lookup.

Key Features

• No authentication required — uses the public OSF API
• Two modes: search/browse preprints or fetch specific ones by ID
• Filter by tags, subjects, or provider (e.g., PsyArXiv, SocArXiv, MedArXiv)
• Pagination handled automatically — retrieves up to 1,000 records per run
• Clean structured output with camelCase field names

Input Fields

Provider Examples

Popular OSF preprint providers you can filter by:

Output Fields

Each item in the dataset contains:

Example Output

{
"preprintId":"snveb_v2",
"title":"Beyond the Resume: Comparing the Predictive Power of Personality Assessments",
"description":"This study examines employee turnover prediction using machine learning...",
"doi":"10.31234/osf.io/snveb_v2",
"datePublished":"2026-05-26T13:58:36.783000Z",
"dateCreated":"2026-05-25T09:31:34.214181Z",
"dateModified":"2026-05-26T13:58:36.814700Z",
"tags":["Machine learning","Employee turnover","Explainable AI"],
"isPublished":true,
"provider":"psyarxiv",
"subjects":["Industrial and Organizational Psychology","Quantitative Methods"],
"sourceUrl":"https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/snveb_v2/",
"recordType":"preprint",
"scrapedAt":"2026-05-30T10:00:00.000000+00:00"
}

Use Cases

• Academic research: Track preprints in specific fields
• Literature reviews: Collect papers by subject or tag for systematic reviews
• Trend analysis: Monitor publication rates by subject over time
• Citation tracking: Gather DOIs for downstream citation analysis
• Content aggregation: Build databases of open-access scholarly works

FAQs

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

Q: How many results can I get? A: Up to 1,000 per run. OSF has 190,000+ preprints total.

Q: Can I filter by date? A: Not directly via this actor's inputs. You can filter by tag and subject, then sort results by datePublished in post-processing.

Q: What's the difference between providers? A: Different academic communities host preprint servers on OSF (e.g., PsyArXiv for psychology). Using the provider filter restricts results to that community.

Q: Are all preprints peer-reviewed? A: No — preprints are pre-peer-review. The isPublished field indicates OSF server acceptance, not journal peer review.

Q: How current is the data? A: The OSF API returns live data. New preprints appear within hours of submission.