Google Scholar Profiles API
Find published authors on the Google Scholar platform.
To enable this engine, set the
engine=google_scholar_profiles
parameter.The Google Scholar Profiles API returns a list of available authors, based on the keyword you pass to the query parameter.

Scrape Google Scholar Profiles
We will use following URL as an example for this request:
https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake
cURL
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curl --request GET --url "https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake"
const http = require("https");
const options = {
"method": "GET",
"hostname": "serpapi.webscrapingapi.com",
"port": null,
"path": "/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake",
"headers": {}
};
const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
const chunks = [];
res.on("data", function (chunk) {
chunks.push(chunk);
});
res.on("end", function () {
const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
console.log(body.toString());
});
});
req.end();
import http.client
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("serpapi.webscrapingapi.com")
conn.request("GET", "/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake")
res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()
print(data.decode("utf-8"))
<?php
$curl = curl_init();
curl_setopt_array($curl, [
CURLOPT_URL => "https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake",
CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);
$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);
curl_close($curl);
if ($err) {
echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
echo $response;
}
package main
import (
"fmt"
"net/http"
"io/ioutil"
)
func main() {
url := "https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake"
req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)
res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)
defer res.Body.Close()
body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)
fmt.Println(res)
fmt.Println(string(body))
}
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake")
.asString();
var client = new RestClient("https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'
url = URI("https://serpapi.webscrapingapi.com/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake")
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE
request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)
response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
Parameter | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
mauthors
Required | string | The names that you are searching for (the query). |
Parameter | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
hl | string |
Parameter | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
after_author | int | Defines the next page token and must precede the value of before_author . |
before_author | int | Defines the previous page token. |
{
"search_parameters": {
"google_url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=jake&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8",
"engine": "google_scholar_profiles",
"google_domain": "scholar.google.com",
"device": "desktop",
"query": "jake"
},
"profiles": [
{
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=5cFtJIUAAAAJ&citpid=1",
"name": "T. Jake Liang",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=5cFtJIUAAAAJ",
"author_id": "5cFtJIUAAAAJ",
"affiliations": "NIH",
"email": "Verified email at nih.gov",
"cited_by": 40822,
"interests": [
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:viral_hepatitis_and_liver_diseases",
"title": "Viral hepatitis and liver diseases"
}
],
"position": 1
},
{
"thumbnail": "/citations/images/avatar_scholar_56.png",
"name": "Jake Wilson",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=QnlIoyAAAAAJ",
"author_id": "QnlIoyAAAAAJ",
"affiliations": "Professor of French Art History, New York University",
"email": "Verified email at asu.edu",
"cited_by": 27844,
"interests": [
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:french_art_history",
"title": "French Art History"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:france",
"title": "France"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:french_people",
"title": "French people"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:wine",
"title": "Wine"
}
],
"position": 2
},
{
"thumbnail": "/citations/images/avatar_scholar_56.png",
"name": "Jake Najman",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ScAxfJ0AAAAJ",
"author_id": "ScAxfJ0AAAAJ",
"affiliations": "School of Public Health, The University of Queensland",
"email": "Verified email at uq.edu.au",
"cited_by": 26302,
"interests": [
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:social_epidemiology",
"title": "Social Epidemiology"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:illicit_drugs",
"title": "Illicit Drugs"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:alcohol",
"title": "Alcohol"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:life_course_epidemiology",
"title": "Life Course Epidemiology"
}
],
"position": 3
},
{
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=UuXTH9wAAAAJ&citpid=2",
"name": "M Jake Vander Zanden",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UuXTH9wAAAAJ",
"author_id": "UuXTH9wAAAAJ",
"affiliations": "Professor, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison",
"email": "Verified email at wisc.edu",
"cited_by": 19828,
"interests": [
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:lakes",
"title": "lakes"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:freshwater",
"title": "freshwater"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:food_webs",
"title": "food webs"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:stable_isotopes",
"title": "stable isotopes"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:invasive_species",
"title": "invasive species"
}
],
"position": 4
},
{
"thumbnail": "/citations/images/avatar_scholar_56.png",
"name": "Jake K Byrnes",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Sy18D70AAAAJ",
"author_id": "Sy18D70AAAAJ",
"affiliations": "Director, Computational Genomics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals",
"cited_by": 18937,
"interests": [
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:computational_biology",
"title": "Computational Biology"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:drug_development",
"title": "Drug Development"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:population_genetics",
"title": "Population Genetics"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:statistical_genetics",
"title": "Statistical Genetics"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:medical_genetics",
"title": "Medical Genetics"
}
],
"position": 5
},
{
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=vY5xVdYAAAAJ&citpid=5",
"name": "Jake Estes",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=vY5xVdYAAAAJ",
"author_id": "vY5xVdYAAAAJ",
"affiliations": "OHSU",
"email": "Verified email at ohsu.edu",
"cited_by": 17757,
"interests": [
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:hiv_infection",
"title": "HIV infection"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:inflammation",
"title": "inflammation"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:immunology",
"title": "immunology"
}
],
"position": 6
},
{
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=0Fl6C9oAAAAJ&citpid=1",
"name": "Jake Lin",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=0Fl6C9oAAAAJ",
"author_id": "0Fl6C9oAAAAJ",
"affiliations": "Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland",
"email": "Verified email at helsinki.fi",
"cited_by": 13570,
"interests": [
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:computational_biology",
"title": "Computational biology"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:statistical_genetics",
"title": "Statistical genetics"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:metagenomics",
"title": "Metagenomics"
}
],
"position": 7
},
{
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=rFB55r0AAAAJ&citpid=5",
"name": "jake barralet",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=rFB55r0AAAAJ",
"author_id": "rFB55r0AAAAJ",
"affiliations": "Faculty of Medicine",
"email": "Verified email at mcgill.ca",
"cited_by": 13241,
"interests": [
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:biomaterials",
"title": "Biomaterials"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:tissue_engineering",
"title": "Tissue Engineering"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:bioceramics",
"title": "Bioceramics"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:oxygen_delivery",
"title": "Oxygen Delivery"
}
],
"position": 8
},
{
"thumbnail": "/citations/images/avatar_scholar_56.png",
"name": "Jake F. Weltzin",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=dEEFq9YAAAAJ",
"author_id": "dEEFq9YAAAAJ",
"affiliations": "US Geological Survey",
"email": "Verified email at usgs.gov",
"cited_by": 12010,
"interests": [
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:ecology",
"title": "Ecology"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:climate_change",
"title": "Climate Change"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:biological_invasions",
"title": "Biological Invasions"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:phenology",
"title": "Phenology"
},
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:ecological_forecasting",
"title": "Ecological Forecasting"
}
],
"position": 9
},
{
"thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=HjWB2ZoAAAAJ&citpid=1",
"name": "Jacob (Jake) Van Dyk",
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=HjWB2ZoAAAAJ",
"author_id": "HjWB2ZoAAAAJ",
"affiliations": "Western University",
"email": "Verified email at uwo.ca",
"cited_by": 11397,
"interests": [
{
"link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:radiation_oncology_medical_physics",
"title": "Radiation Oncology Medical Physics"
}
],
"position": 10
}
]
}
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