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OpenAlex Works Scraper

hyperscrape/openalex-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%20adaptation

Swap 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).