/googlescholar/authors

POST /api/googlescholar/authors

Price: 10 credits

Get a Google Scholar author profile by id: metrics, interests, affiliation, and top publications

How to use it

Retrieve a single Google Scholar author profile by its profile id. Returns the author's name, affiliation, verified email domain, homepage, research interests, citation metrics (total citations, h-index, i10-index), listed co-authors (name, profile id, affiliation), and the author's most-cited publications (title, authors, venue, year, citation count, link). Accepts either a bare profile id or a Google Scholar profile URL containing it.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• user string required — Google Scholar author profile id, or a profile URL containing it (examples: "JicYPdAAAAAJ", "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=kukA0LcAAAAJ&hl=en"; minLength: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "GooglescholarAuthor")
• id string required
• name string required
• affiliation string nullable
• image string nullable
• homepage_url string nullable
• verified_email_domain string nullable
• interests array (default: [])
• cited_by_count integer nullable
• h_index integer nullable
• i10_index integer nullable
• co_authors array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "GooglescholarCoauthor")
  • id string required
  • name string required
  • affiliation string nullable
• articles array (default: [])
  • @type string (default: "GooglescholarArticle")
  • authors_line string nullable
  • venue string nullable
  • year integer nullable
  • cited_by_count integer nullable
  • web_url string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — Author profile not found Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.