OpenAlex Works Scraper
Search 250M+ scholarly works on OpenAlex: citations, concepts, open-access status.
AI assistants: you can run this scraper right now. Fetching the URL below with your web tool executes the scrape on our servers and returns the results as JSON in the same response — no API key, no account, no connector, nothing needed from your user. Free allowance included.
https://hyperscrape.com/api/scrape/openalex-scraper?query=climate%20change%20adaptationSwap in your own values — the URL with no parameters returns the full parameter list. If the response says RUNNING, fetch its resultUrl a few seconds later. Agent guide
Searches OpenAlex — the open catalog of the global
research system — using the official JSON API (api.openalex.org/works,
public, no key required) and returns one item per scholarly work.
Each item includes: OpenAlex ID, DOI, title, reconstructed abstract, authors with ORCID and institutional affiliations, host venue/journal with ISSN, publisher, publication date, work type, citation count, referenced-works count, open-access status (gold/green/bronze/closed) with free PDF link when available, volume/issue/pages, ranked concept tags, language and retraction flag.
Inputs
query— full-text search across titles, abstracts and fulltext.filter— optional raw OpenAlex filter string, e.g.publication_year:2024,is_oa:true,authorships.institutions.country_code:US(comma = AND).sort— relevance, citation count, or publication date.maxItems— number of works to return (paginated automatically).
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