Google Scholar Scraper — Papers, Authors, Cites

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What does Google Scholar Scraper do?

Scrape Google Scholar at scale — papers, author profiles, author citation charts, and citation format exports (MLA / APA / Chicago / BibTeX / RIS).

Why use Google Scholar Scraper?

• Five modes. Search Papers, Search Author Profiles, Get Author Profile (with articles), Get Author Citation Chart, Get Paper Citation Formats.
• Year range filter. as_ylo / as_yhi for date-bound literature reviews.
• Citation export. Direct MLA / APA / Chicago / Harvard / Vancouver + BibTeX / RIS.
• Author citation chart. Per-year citation counts for academic impact tracking.
• Cheapest scholar actor on Apify. $0.70 / 1k papers.

What data can Google Scholar Scraper extract?

How to scrape Google Scholar

1. Click Try for free.
2. Pick mode.
3. For Search Papers: enter q, optional as_ylo / as_yhi year range.
4. For Author Profile: enter author_id.
5. For Citation Formats: enter q (cluster_id).
6. Click Start — papers / authors stream into the dataset.

How much will it cost?

$0.007 per page (list modes) · $0.003 per single-shot call. ≈ $0.70 per 1,000 papers. Author chart / cite format = single-shot $0.003 each.

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Input

Configure the run in the Input tab above, or pass a JSON object matching the fields below when calling the Actor via the Apify API.

Output

Every successful run streams records into the run's dataset. Download as JSON, CSV, XML, Excel, or HTML from the Dataset tab; consume programmatically via the Apify API or webhooks.

Example record:

{
"record_type":"paper",
"title":"Attention Is All You Need",
"authors":"Vaswani, Ashish et al.",
"publication":"NeurIPS 2017",
"cited_by":98234,
"year":2017,
"link":"https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762",
"snippet":"The dominant sequence transduction models\u2026",
"cluster_id":"1234567890"
}

Tips / Advanced options

• Use as_ylo for literature reviews. Bound by date — e.g. as_ylo: 2020 for post-2020 ML papers.
• Citation chart for academic impact. Per-year citation counts — perfect for tenure-track impact reports.
• BibTeX export for reference managers. Get Paper Citation Formats → BibTeX → drop into Zotero / Mendeley.
• Dedupe by cluster_id. Same paper on arXiv + journal + preprint server — Google merges by cluster_id.

FAQ, Disclaimers, Support

What's cluster_id?

Google Scholar's internal paper identifier. All versions (arXiv, journal, preprint) of the same paper share a cluster_id.

How do I find author_id?

Run Search Author Profiles first — each returned author has an author_id. Or grab it from the author's profile URL (&user=…).

Does this include PDF text?

No — only Scholar's metadata (title, authors, snippet, link). Download the PDF from link separately.

What's the citation count source?

Google Scholar's own cited_by count. Differs from Web of Science / Scopus / OpenCitations.

Disclaimer

This Actor scrapes public Google data only. You're responsible for compliance with Google's Terms of Service and any applicable data-protection laws (GDPR, CCPA, etc.) in your jurisdiction. ScrapeBadger does not store the scraped results — they are delivered directly to your Apify dataset.

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Something not working? Open a ticket in the Issues tab above — we triage within one business day. Full API reference: docs.scrapebadger.com.

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