Google Scholar Author Scraper API

Search Query

Name

author_id

Required

Required

Description
The parameter specifies the author_id for your search. Locate these values in:
- The URL of a Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=author_id.
Name

citation_id

Required

Optional

Description
The parameter is essential for retrieving individual article citation. It's required when either:
- view_op=view_citation
- view_op=view_mandate
You can identify these values in the JSON responses from the current engine when:
- Using author_id without any view_op parameter.
- Using author_id with the view_op=list_mandates parameter.
Furthermore, these values are also available in the URL of a Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&citation_for_view=citation_id.
Note: The parameter can also be used independently, without the author_id.

Localization

Name

hl

Required

Optional

Description

The default parameter en defines the interface language of the search. Check the full list of supported Google hl languages.

Filters

Name

sortby

Required

Optional

Description
Articles are sorted by the number of citations by default. If you wish to:
- Sort by date, use: sortby=pubdate.
- Sort by title, use: sortby=title.
Name

view_op

Required

Optional

Description
The parameter specifies the search type. By default, it provides detailed information about an author. Here are the available options::
- view_citation - Provides in-depth citation details. A citation_id is required.
- list_mandates - Displays a list of author mandates.
- view_mandate - Offers detailed information on a mandate. A citation_id is required.
- list_colleagues - Enumerates all co-authors.
Name

agencyid

Required

Optional

Description

Use this parameter to sort mandates by agency, using the unique agencyid. To find these values, refer to the JSON responses when employing the view_op=list_mandates parameter.

Pagination

Name

page

Required

Optional

Description

Parameter indicates which page of results to return. By default, it is set to 1. Parameter is only used while view_op parameter is empty or is set to list_mandates

Engine

Name

engine

Required

Required

Description

Parameter defines an engine that will be used to retrieve real-time data. It must be set to google_scholar_author.

API key

Name

api_key

Required

Required

Description

The api_key authenticates your requests. Use it as a query parameter (https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY) or in the Authorization header (Bearer YOUR_API_KEY).

Zero Data Retention

Name

zero_retention

Enterprise Only

Enterprise Only

Required

Optional

Description

Set this parameter to true to disable all logging and persistent storage. No request parameters, HTML, or JSON responses are stored or logged. Suitable for high-compliance use cases. Debugging and support may be limited while enabled.

Full Response

GET

https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?author_id=JicYPdAAAAAJ&engine=google_scholar_author

Request

import requests

url = "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search"
params = {
  "engine": "google_scholar_author",
  "author_id": "JicYPdAAAAAJ"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)
print(response.text)

Response

{
  "search_metadata": {
    "id": "search_Rz4KNQmOp60YHVyQoyWl8DBv",
    "status": "Success",
    "created_at": "2023-09-05T15:54:55Z",
    "request_time_taken": 1.39,
    "parsing_time_taken": 0.05,
    "total_time_taken": 1.44,
    "request_url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JicYPdAAAAAJ&hl=en",
    "html_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_Rz4KNQmOp60YHVyQoyWl8DBv.html",
    "json_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_Rz4KNQmOp60YHVyQoyWl8DBv"
  },
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "google_scholar_author",
    "author_id": "JicYPdAAAAAJ",
    "hl": "en"
  },
  "author": {
    "name": "Geoffrey Hinton",
    "affiliations": "Emeritus Prof. Computer Science, University of Toronto",
    "university": "University of Toronto",
    "university_authors_link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=8515235176732148308",
    "email": "Verified email at cs.toronto.edu",
    "interests": [
      {
        "title": "machine learning",
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:machine_learning"
      },
      ...
    ],
    "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=view_photo&user=JicYPdAAAAAJ&citpid=2"
  },
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "Imagenet classification with deep convolutional neural networks",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=JicYPdAAAAAJ&citation_for_view=JicYPdAAAAAJ:VN7nJs4JPk0C",
      "citation_id": "JicYPdAAAAAJ:VN7nJs4JPk0C",
      "authors": "A Krizhevsky, I Sutskever, GE Hinton",
      "publication": "Advances in neural information processing systems 25, 2012",
      "cited_by": {
        "cites_id": "2071317309766942398,1036029811429977192,13351982974043817797",
        "total": 140721,
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=2071317309766942398,1036029811429977192,13351982974043817797"
      },
      "year": 2012
    },
    ...
  ],
  "cited_by": {
    "table": {
      "headers": [
        "",
        "All",
        "Since 2018"
      ],
      "rows": [
        [
          "Citations",
          "703582",
          "498359"
        ],
        ...
      ]
    },
    "histogram": [
      {
        "year": 1989,
        "cites": 2125
      },
      ...
    ]
  },
  "public_access": {
    "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_mandates&hl=en&user=JicYPdAAAAAJ",
    "available": 7,
    "not_available": 1
  },
  "co_authors": [
    {
      "author_id": "m1qAiOUAAAAJ",
      "name": "Terrence Sejnowski",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m1qAiOUAAAAJ&hl=en",
      "affiliations": "Francis Crick Professor, Salk Institute, Distingished Professor, UC San Diego",
      "email": "Verified email at salk.edu",
      "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=m1qAiOUAAAAJ&citpid=3"
    },
    ...
  ]
}

Citation (view_op=view_citation)

GET

https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?citation_id=JicYPdAAAAAJ%3AVN7nJs4JPk0C&engine=google_scholar_author&view_op=view_citation

Request

import requests

url = "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search"
params = {
  "engine": "google_scholar_author",
  "citation_id": "JicYPdAAAAAJ:VN7nJs4JPk0C",
  "view_op": "view_citation"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)
print(response.text)

Response

{
  "search_metadata": {
    "id": "search_V6QeGdKRg9qes0eqg8mBExyv",
    "status": "Success",
    "created_at": "2023-08-11T12:01:02Z",
    "request_time_taken": 1.1,
    "parsing_time_taken": 0.02,
    "total_time_taken": 1.12,
    "request_url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&citation_for_view=JicYPdAAAAAJ:VN7nJs4JPk0C&hl=en&ie=UTF-8",
    "html_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_V6QeGdKRg9qes0eqg8mBExyv.html",
    "json_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_V6QeGdKRg9qes0eqg8mBExyv"
  },
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "google_scholar_author",
    "hl": "en",
    "view_op": "view_citation",
    "citation_id": "JicYPdAAAAAJ:VN7nJs4JPk0C"
  },
  "citation": {
    "title": "Imagenet classification with deep convolutional neural networks",
    "link": "https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2012/hash/c399862d3b9d6b76c8436e924a68c45b-Abstract.html",
    "resources": [
      {
        "name": "from neurips.cc",
        "format": "PDF",
        "link": "https://proceedings.neurips.cc/paper/2012/file/c399862d3b9d6b76c8436e924a68c45b-Paper.pdf"
      }
    ],
    "description": "We trained a large, deep convolutional neural network to classify the 1.3 million high-resolution images...",
    "authors": "Alex Krizhevsky, Ilya Sutskever, Geoffrey E Hinton",
    "publication_date": "2012",
    "journal": "Advances in neural information processing systems",
    "volume": "25",
    "cited_by": {
      "cites_id": "2071317309766942398,1036029811429977192,13351982974043817797",
      "total": 139437,
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=2071317309766942398,1036029811429977192,13351982974043817797&as_sdt=5"
    },
    "cites_histogram": [
      {
        "year": 2013,
        "cites": 397
      },
      ...
    ],
    "scholar_articles": {
      "title": "Imagenet classification with deep convolutional neural networks",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&cluster=2071317309766942398&btnI=1&hl=en",
      "authors": "A Krizhevsky, I Sutskever, GE Hinton - Advances in neural information processing systems, 2012",
      "cited_by": {
        "cites_id": "2071317309766942398",
        "total": 119546,
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=2071317309766942398&as_sdt=5"
      },
      "versions": {
        "cluster_id": "2071317309766942398",
        "total": 111,
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cluster=2071317309766942398"
      },
      "related_articles_link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=2071317309766942398&as_sdt=5"
    }
  }
}

List of Mandates (view_op=list_mandates)

GET

https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?author_id=m1qAiOUAAAAJ&engine=google_scholar_author&view_op=list_mandates

Request

import requests

url = "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search"
params = {
  "engine": "google_scholar_author",
  "author_id": "m1qAiOUAAAAJ",
  "view_op": "list_mandates"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)
print(response.text)

Response

{
  "search_metadata": {
    "id": "search_n9XmVeqAp1RdHERygKkGJZrx",
    "status": "Success",
    "created_at": "2023-08-11T11:54:34Z",
    "request_time_taken": 1.15,
    "parsing_time_taken": 0.01,
    "total_time_taken": 1.16,
    "request_url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m1qAiOUAAAAJ&view_op=list_mandates&hl=en&ie=UTF-8",
    "html_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_n9XmVeqAp1RdHERygKkGJZrx.html",
    "json_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_n9XmVeqAp1RdHERygKkGJZrx"
  },
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "google_scholar_author",
    "author_id": "m1qAiOUAAAAJ",
    "hl": "en",
    "view_op": "list_mandates"
  },
  "filters": [
    {
      "title": "Overall",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com?hl=en&user=m1qAiOUAAAAJ&view_op=list_mandates"
    },
    ...
  ],
  "author": {
    "author_id": "m1qAiOUAAAAJ",
    "name": "Terrence Sejnowski",
    "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=m1qAiOUAAAAJ&hl=en",
    "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=m1qAiOUAAAAJ&citpid=3"
  },
  "articles": [
    ...
    {
      "title": "Global epigenomic reconfiguration during mammalian brain development",
      "mandate_link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_mandate&hl=en&agencyid=-1&citation_for_view=m1qAiOUAAAAJ:puFLaqDw8dcC",
      "citation_id": "m1qAiOUAAAAJ:puFLaqDw8dcC",
      "authors": "R Lister, EA Mukamel, JR Nery, M Urich, CA Puddifoot, ND Johnson, ...",
      "publication": "Science 341 (6146), 1237905, 2013",
      "mandates": "US National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute …",
      "resource": {
        "name": "nih.gov",
        "format": "HTML",
        "link": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3785061/"
      },
      "year": 2013
    },
    ...
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "current": 1,
    "next": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=m1qAiOUAAAAJ&view_op=list_mandates&cstart=20",
    "other_pages": {
      "2": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=m1qAiOUAAAAJ&view_op=list_mandates&cstart=20",
      ...
    }
  }
}

Mandate (view_op=view_mandate)

GET

https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?citation_id=emNS0uYAAAAJ%3ADIP-VHrGjvwC&engine=google_scholar_author&view_op=view_mandate

Request

import requests

url = "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search"
params = {
  "engine": "google_scholar_author",
  "citation_id": "emNS0uYAAAAJ:DIP-VHrGjvwC",
  "view_op": "view_mandate"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)
print(response.text)

Response

{
  "search_metadata": {
    "id": "search_81zxXmPv3DdnFvlN3VdOanD5",
    "status": "Success",
    "created_at": "2023-08-11T12:07:59Z",
    "request_time_taken": 1.03,
    "parsing_time_taken": 0,
    "total_time_taken": 1.03,
    "request_url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=emNS0uYAAAAJ&view_op=view_mandate&citation_for_view=emNS0uYAAAAJ:DIP-VHrGjvwC&hl=en&ie=UTF-8",
    "html_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_81zxXmPv3DdnFvlN3VdOanD5.html",
    "json_url": "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_81zxXmPv3DdnFvlN3VdOanD5"
  },
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "google_scholar_author",
    "hl": "en",
    "view_op": "view_mandate",
    "citation_id": "emNS0uYAAAAJ:DIP-VHrGjvwC"
  },
  "article": {
    "title": "Influence of meteorological conditions on PM2. 5 concentrations across China: A review of methodology and mechanism",
    "link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&cluster=11357196984714387301&btnI=1&hl=en",
    "cluster_id": "11357196984714387301",
    "authors": "Z Chen, D Chen, C Zhao, M Kwan, J Cai, Y Zhuang, B Zhao, X Wang, ...",
    "publication": "Environment international 139, 105558, 2020",
    "year": 2020
  },
  "mandates": [
    {
      "title": "National Natural Science Foundation of China",
      "link": "http://ir.nsfc.gov.cn/statement",
      "cached_page_link": "https://scholar.google.com/mandates/nsfc_cn-2021-02-13-cn.pdf",
      "funding": "…Beijing Natural Science Foundation (8202031) …",
      "embargo": "12 months",
      "date": "2014/5"
    }
  ]
}

Colleagues (view_op=list_colleagues)

GET

https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?author_id=JicYPdAAAAAJ&engine=google_scholar_author&view_op=list_colleagues

Request

import requests

url = "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search"
params = {
  "engine": "google_scholar_author",
  "author_id": "JicYPdAAAAAJ",
  "view_op": "list_colleagues"
}

response = requests.get(url, params=params)
print(response.text)

Response

{
  "search_metadata": {
    "id": "search_AEM9arelpd2kFEmQoW0Nw8nB",
    "status": "Success",
    "created_at": "2023-08-11T11:50:27Z",
    "request_time_taken": 0.99,
    "parsing_time_taken": 0.01,
    "total_time_taken": 1,
    "request_url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=JicYPdAAAAAJ&view_op=list_colleagues&hl=en&ie=UTF-8",
    "html_url": "http://wwww.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_AEM9arelpd2kFEmQoW0Nw8nB.html",
    "json_url": "http://wwww.searchapi.io/api/v1/searches/search_AEM9arelpd2kFEmQoW0Nw8nB"
  },
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "google_scholar_author",
    "author_id": "JicYPdAAAAAJ",
    "hl": "en",
    "view_op": "list_colleagues"
  },
  "co_authors": [
    {
      "author_id": "m1qAiOUAAAAJ",
      "name": "Terrence Sejnowski",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=m1qAiOUAAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "Francis Crick Professor, Salk Institute, Distingished Professor, UC San Diego",
      "email": "Verified email at salk.edu",
      "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=m1qAiOUAAAAJ&citpid=3"
    },
    ...
  ]
}

Google Scholar Author API

API Parameters

Search Query

Localization

Filters

Engine

API key

Zero Data Retention

API Examples

Full Response

Citation (view_op=view_citation)

List of Mandates (view_op=list_mandates)

Mandate (view_op=view_mandate)

Colleagues (view_op=list_colleagues)