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Google Scholar Search Scraper

Extract academic papers, citations, author profiles, and publication data from Google Scholar. 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",
    "publication": "string",
    "year": "string",
    "citations": "string",
    "snippet": "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-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("[data-cid]").forEach(el => {
    const title = el.querySelector("h3 a")?.textContent?.trim();
    const authors = (el.querySelector("h3 + div a") ||
      el.querySelector("h3 ~ div:nth-of-type(1)"))?.textContent?.trim();
    const snippet = el.querySelector("h3 ~ div:nth-of-type(2)")?.textContent?.trim();
    const citLink = [...(el.querySelectorAll("a") || [])].find(a => a.textContent?.includes("Cited by"));
    const citations = citLink?.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();
ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript
Extraction

Fields you can pull.

Paper titleAuthorsPublicationYearCitationsSnippetPDF linkRelated articles
Geo-Proxy

Location targeting

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Stealth

Rate-limit bypass

Distributed requests with fingerprint rotation to avoid IP-based throttling.

Parsing

Structured SERP data

Clean extraction of rankings, snippets, and knowledge panels into JSON.

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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.