Google Scholar Search Scraper

Extract academic papers, citations, author profiles, and publication data from Google Scholar. Powered by spider-browser .

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scholar.google.com target

99.5% success rate

~4ms latency

Quick Start

Extract data in minutes

google-scholar-search-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=machine+learning");
await page.content();

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();
    if (title) papers.push({ title, authors, snippet, citations });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: papers.length, papers: papers.slice(0, 10) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

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Fetch API

Structured data endpoint

Extract structured JSON from scholar.google.com with a single POST request. AI-configured selectors, cached for fast repeat calls.

POST /fetch/scholar.google.com/

Paper titleAuthorsPublicationYearCitationsSnippet

Try it Fetch API Docs

curl

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/scholar.google.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/scholar.google.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/scholar.google.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

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