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Google Scholar Science Scraper

Extract academic papers, citation counts, author profiles, and related articles from Google Scholar search results. Built on spider-browser .

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

Extract data in minutes.

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

google-scholar-science-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://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=attention+is+all+you+need");
await page.content(10000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const papers = [];
  document.querySelectorAll(".gs_r.gs_or.gs_scl").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector(".gs_rt a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const authors = el.querySelector(".gs_a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const snippet = el.querySelector(".gs_rs")?.textContent?.trim();
    const citations = el.querySelector(".gs_fl a:nth-child(3)")?.textContent?.trim();
    const link = el.querySelector(".gs_rt a")?.getAttribute("href");
    if (title) papers.push({ title, authors, snippet: snippet?.slice(0, 200), citations, link });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: papers.length, papers: papers.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

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

Fields you can pull.

Paper titleAuthorsSnippetCitation countYearSourcePDF linkRelated articles
Content

Paper extraction

Extract abstracts, citations, author data, and metadata from scholar.google.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 scholar.google.com.

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