Dimensions Scraper
Spider read dimensions.ai in 119 ms without a browser and returned 139 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Dimensions webinars" and "Featured content".
See All Dimensions Products“PLOS relies on Dimensions for baseline data about institutions and their funding sources for agreement discussions but also for internal business analytics”## Dimensions webinarsOn Demand Webinar ### The Self-Citation Problem: How Publishers Can Protect Their Journals at Scale Managing self-citation risk is becoming harder for editorial teams to do consistently and at scale. Join us for a 45-minute webinar to explore the challenge and see how Dimensions Citation Check can help.On Demand Webinar ### Getting more from Dimensions Analytics: a practical guide for publishers Dimensions Analytics supports a wide range of workflows across scholarly publishing organisations – but with so much capability in the platform, it can be hard to know where to look beyond your immediate day-to-day use. In this webinar, Susan Forbes…On Demand Webinar ### From rankings to reputation intelligence Exploring the data behind research performance, visibility and academic reputation University rankings attract strong opinions and significant attention from senior leadership teams. Yet discussions often focus on explaining outcomes rather than examining…## Featured contentBlog ### Why research integrity and research security can no longer operate separately Among many threads brought together in the first-ever Forensic Scientometrics (FoSci) Report is the macro-level analysis that looks into structural problems plaguing the research ecosystem: from interference by companies and governments, to legal threats…Use Case ### Get expert-level strategic analysis, on demand, with Dimensions Research Strategy Dimensions helps academic research leaders uncover the strategic insights they need to shape a successful future.The same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on dimensions.ai.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication?search_mode=content&search_text=protein+folding");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();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://app.dimensions.ai/discover/publication?search_mode=content&search_text=protein+folding");
await page.content(10000);
const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
const publications = [];
document.querySelectorAll("[data-testid='result-row'], .result-item").forEach(el => {
const title = el.querySelector("h3 a, .result-title a")?.textContent?.trim();
const authors = el.querySelector(".result-authors, .authors-list")?.textContent?.trim();
const source = el.querySelector(".result-source, .journal-name")?.textContent?.trim();
const year = el.querySelector(".result-year, .pub-year")?.textContent?.trim();
const citations = el.querySelector(".result-citations, .citation-badge")?.textContent?.trim();
if (title) publications.push({ title, authors, source, year, citations });
});
return JSON.stringify({ total: publications.length, publications: publications.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);
console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What dimensions.ai costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000426 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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