Google Scholar Profiles API
Google Scholar Profiles API allows searching public Google Scholar profiles and scraping their interests, affiliations, profile information, and more. API uses /api/v1/search?engine=google_scholar_profiles
endpoint to scrape profiles in real-time.
The mauthors
request parameter is deprecated and requires authentication on Google's side. Please use the org_id
parameter instead, which can be retrieved via the Google Scholar API.
API Parameters
Search Query
-
- Name
-
org_id
- Required
- Required
- Description
-
Parameter defines the ID of the organization you want to search. You can obtain this ID using the Google Scholar API. For example,
New York University
.
Localization
-
- Name
-
google_domain
- Required
- Optional
- Description
-
The default parameter
google.com
defines the Google domain of the search. Check the full list of supported Googlegoogle_domain
domains.
-
- Name
-
hl
- Required
- Optional
- Description
-
The default parameter
en
defines the interface language of the search. Check the full list of supported Googlehl
languages.
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_profiles
.
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
).
API Examples
Full Response

https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search?engine=google_scholar_profiles&org_id=9041355431344595068
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- requests
import requests
url = "https://www.searchapi.io/api/v1/search"
params = {
"engine": "google_scholar_profiles",
"org_id": "9041355431344595068"
}
response = requests.get(url, params=params)
print(response.text)
{
"profiles": [
{
"author_id": "mIUny9YAAAAJ",
"name": "MD Hildreth",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=mIUny9YAAAAJ",
"affiliations": "Professor of Physics, University of Notre Dame",
"cited_by": {
"total": 299810
},
"interests": [
{
"title": "experimental particle physics",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:experimental_particle_physics"
},
{
"title": "high energy physics",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:high_energy_physics"
}
],
"email": "Verified email at nd.edu",
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.google.com/citations/images/avatar_scholar_56.png"
},
...
],
"pagination": {
"after_author": "1LyGACCn_v8J",
"next": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_org&hl=en&org=9041355431344595068&after_author=1LyGACCn_v8J&astart=10"
}
}