Google Scholar Search Scraper

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://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=machine+learning");

// 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://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();