The Google Scholar API scrapes Google Scholar at scale and returns clean, structured JSON. One actor covers six modes: search research papers, pull citation formats (MLA, APA, Chicago, Harvard, and Vancouver, plus BibTeX and EndNote export links), fetch author profiles with h-index and i10-index, page through an author's full publication list, view per-article citation history, and map an author's co-author network. Built for literature reviews, bibliometrics, citation tracking, and academic AI agents. Call it from code, a no-code tool, or an MCP client, with no quotas to manage.

Pricing is pay-per-event: $0.02 setup per run, then $0.02 per page or call. A five-page search runs about $0.12, and a single author profile is $0.04. No subscription.

Example Tasks & Use Cases

Get citation counts for every paper by an author - an author's full publication list with citation counts, years, and links, ready for an h-index dashboard.

Find papers citing Attention Is All You Need - walk the citation tree of any landmark paper with the cites input.

Search Google Scholar from Claude via MCP - run a scholarly search from an AI agent and get structured results with citations.

Export Google Scholar Results to CSV - run a search, then download the dataset as CSV, JSON, or Excel.

Google Scholar API: Papers, Authors and Citations - the broad starter that shows papers, author profiles, and citation records together.

Works with MCP

The actor runs over the hosted Apify MCP server, so you can add it as a tool in Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client. Ask "pull Geoffrey Hinton's h-index and citation history" or "find the 20 newest papers on retrieval augmented generation" and the agent picks the right mode and runs it, no scraping code.

It reads the same public result pages a browser sees, so coverage reflects what Google Scholar shows; it is not a curated bibliographic database, and pagination stops when Scholar runs out of matches.

Keywords & Topics

google scholar api, google scholar scraper, google scholar mcp, citation tracking, bibliometrics, h-index, i10-index, author profiles, academic research API, literature review automation.