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Connected Papers Scraper

Extract paper similarity graphs, citation connections, prior and derivative works from Connected Papers visual research explorer. Built on spider-browser .

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target
connectedpapers.com
success rate
99.9%
latency
~4ms
POST /fetch/connectedpapers.com/
return_format
curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/connectedpapers.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $SPIDER_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'
200 OK · cache hit · response shape
{
  "url": "https://connectedpapers.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "data": {
    "paper_title": "string",
    "authors": "string",
    "year": "string",
    "citations": "string",
    "graph_position": "string",
    "related_papers": "string",
    "prior_works": "string",
    "derivative_works": "string"
  }
}
Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

Structured JSON from connectedpapers.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

connected-papers-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
  stealth: 2,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://www.connectedpapers.com/search?q=attention+mechanism");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const papers = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("[data-testid='search-result'], .paper-search-result").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("h3, .paper-title")?.textContent?.trim();
    const authors = el.querySelector(".paper-authors")?.textContent?.trim();
    const year = el.querySelector(".paper-year")?.textContent?.trim();
    const citations = el.querySelector(".paper-citations")?.textContent?.trim();
    const venue = el.querySelector(".paper-venue")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (title) papers.push({ title, authors, year, citations, venue });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: papers.length, papers: papers.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Paper titleAuthorsYearCitationsGraph positionRelated papersPrior worksDerivative works
Content

Paper extraction

Extract abstracts, citations, author data, and metadata from connectedpapers.com.

Parsing

Academic parsing

Clean extraction of LaTeX, references, and structured research data.

Scale

Bulk research

Process thousands of papers and citations for systematic reviews.

Related

More Science & Research scrapers.

Start

Start scraping connectedpapers.com.

Grab an API key and call the endpoint above. The first request resolves the config; every request after hits cache.