Google Scholar

Send a Google Scholar link to Scrape or Batch scrape and you get the page’s data as JSON: search results with citation counts, the papers citing a paper, a paper’s citations and BibTeX, an author’s profile and articles, or one article’s full record. Each link costs 1 credit, and links that can’t be read cost nothing.

Example

{ "urls": ["https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=attention+is+all+you+need"], "output": "json", "wait": true }

The item’s result, shortened to the first result:

{
  "type": "search",
  "query": "attention is all you need",
  "totalResultsText": "About 9,640,000 results",
  "resultCount": 10,
  "results": [
    {
      "position": 1,
      "title": "Attention is all you need",
      "year": 2017,
      "publication": "Advances in neural …",
      "citedByCount": 278015,
      "versionsCount": 26,
      "citedByUrl": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=...",
      "citeUrl": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=info:...:scholar.google.com/&output=cite"
    }
  ],
  "hasMore": true
}

Links that work

Link	Example	You get
Search	`scholar.google.com/scholar?q=...` (years with `as_ylo`/`as_yhi`, sort by date with `scisbd`, `start` for pages)	10 results per page, with profiles and related searches
Cited by	`scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=<id>`	The papers citing a paper
Versions	`scholar.google.com/scholar?cluster=<id>`	Every version of a paper
Related	`scholar.google.com/scholar?q=related:<resultId>:scholar.google.com/`	Related articles
Cite	`scholar.google.com/scholar?q=info:<resultId>:scholar.google.com/&output=cite`	MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard and Vancouver strings and export links. Add `&bibtex=1` for the BibTeX text and its fields
Author	`scholar.google.com/citations?user=<id>`	The profile, metrics and up to 500 articles. `&cstart=500` reads the next 500
Article	`scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&citation_for_view=...`	One article’s full record
Co-authors	`scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_colleagues&user=<id>`	Every co-author

Fields

Search result: position, resultId, title, url, type, snippet, authors, authorProfiles, publication, year, sourceHost, fileUrl and fileFormat (the PDF or HTML side link), citedByCount, citedByUrl, versionsCount, versionsUrl, relatedUrl, cachedUrl and citeUrl. Author: authorId, name, photoUrl, affiliation, verifiedEmailDomain, homepage, interests, citations, hIndex and i10Index (all time and since a year), citationsPerYear, publicAccess, coAuthors, articleCount and articles (each with title, authors, publication, year, citedByCount). Geoffrey Hinton’s profile, for example: 1,103,398 citations, h-index 196, the first 500 of his articles.

Limits

Scholar’s author search and organisation pages need a sign-in, so they fail and cost nothing, as do unknown ids and searches with no results.

Templates

Ready-made templates for Google Scholar: papers for a topic, author profiles and metrics, all articles by an author, papers citing a paper, and BibTeX and citations for papers.

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