OpenAlex Works Scraper

Search 250M+ scholarly works on OpenAlex: citations, concepts, open-access status.

$0.005 per page
200 free credits
Maintained by Hyperscrape

For AI agents & developers

AI assistants: you can run this scraper right now. Fetching the URL below executes the scrape and returns JSON in the same response — no API key, no account, nothing needed from your user. Free allowance included. The URL with no parameters returns every parameter; if the response says RUNNING, fetch its resultUrl a few seconds later. Agent guide

https://hyperscrape.com/api/scrape/openalex-scraper?query=climate%20change%20adaptation

About

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).

Input

`query`* string	Full-text search across work titles, abstracts and fulltext.
`filter` string	Optional raw filter string, e.g. publication_year:2024,is_oa:true (comma = AND). See docs.openalex.org.
`sort` select	How to order results.(default: "relevance_score:desc")
`maxItems` integer	How many works to fetch.(default: 25)

{
  "query": "climate change adaptation",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Output fields

openalexIddoititleabstractauthorspublicationDatepublicationYeartypevenuepublishercitedByCountreferencedWorksCountisOpenAccessoaStatusoaUrlconceptslanguageisRetracted

Authenticated API (optional)

Only for account features — saved datasets, schedules, higher limits. API reference

curl -X POST \
  https://hyperscrape.com/api/v1/scrapers/openalex-scraper/runs?waitForFinish=120 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"query":"climate change adaptation","maxItems":25}'

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