Google Scholar Author API

Api Details

EndpointGET https://serpapi.abcproxy.com/search

Description

Our Google Scholar Author API allows you to scrape author results from the Google Scholar Author search page. The API is accessed through the following endpoint: /search?engine=google_scholar_author.

A user may query the following: https://serpapi.abcproxy.com/search?engine=google_scholar_author utilizing a GET request. Head to the playground for a live and interactive demo.

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Request

HTTP Request

cURL

curl -X GET "https://serpapi.abcproxy.com/search" \
  -d "engine=google_scholar_author" \
  -d "author_id=EicYvbwAAAAJ" \
  -d "no_cache=false" \
  -d "api_key=YOUR_API_KEY"

Python

import requests

params = {
    "engine": "google_scholar_author",
    "author_id": "EicYvbwAAAAJ",
    "no_cache": "false",
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY"
}
response = requests.get("https://serpapi.abcproxy.com/search", params=params)
print(response.json())

Node.js

const axios = require('axios');

const params = {
  engine: "google_scholar_author",
  author_id: "EicYvbwAAAAJ",
  no_cache: "false",
  api_key: "YOUR_API_KEY"
};

axios.get("https://serpapi.abcproxy.com/search", { params })
  .then(response => console.log(response.data));

HTTP

GET /search?engine=google_scholar_author&author_id=EicYvbwAAAAJ&no_cache=false&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY HTTP/1.1
Host: serpapi.abcproxy.com

PHP

<?php
$client = new \GuzzleHttp\Client();
$response = $client->get('https://serpapi.abcproxy.com/search', [
    'query' => [
        'engine' => 'google_scholar_author',
        'author_id' => 'EicYvbwAAAAJ',
        'no_cache' => 'false',
        'api_key' => 'YOUR_API_KEY'
    ]
]);
echo $response->getBody();

Golang

package main

import (
    "net/http"
    "io/ioutil"
    "log"
)

func main() {
    client := &http.Client{}
    req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", "https://serpapi.abcproxy.com/search", nil)
    
    q := req.URL.Query()
    q.Add("engine", "google_scholar_author")
    q.Add("author_id", "EicYvbwAAAAJ")
    q.Add("no_cache", "false")
    q.Add("api_key", "YOUR_API_KEY")
    req.URL.RawQuery = q.Encode()

    resp, _ := client.Do(req)
    body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
    log.Println(string(body))
}

C#

using System;
using System.Net.Http;

class Program
{
    static async Task Main()
    {
        var client = new HttpClient();
        var query = System.Web.HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);
        query["engine"] = "google_scholar_author";
        query["author_id"] = "EicYvbwAAAAJ";
        query["no_cache"] = "false";
        query["api_key"] = "YOUR_API_KEY";
        
        var response = await client.GetAsync(
            $"https://serpapi.abcproxy.com/search?{query}"
        );
        Console.WriteLine(await response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync());
    }
}

Java

import java.net.*;
import java.io.*;

public class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
        String url = "https://serpapi.abcproxy.com/search" +
            "?engine=google_scholar_author" +
            "&author_id=EicYvbwAAAAJ" +
            "&no_cache=false" +
            "&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY";
        
        HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection) new URL(url).openConnection();
        conn.setRequestMethod("GET");
        
        BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
            new InputStreamReader(conn.getInputStream())
        );
        String response = in.lines().collect(Collectors.joining());
        System.out.println(response);
    }
}

API Parameters

Search Query

Name	Type	Required	Description	Example
author_id	String	Yes	Parameter defines the ID of an author. You can find the ID either by using our Google Scholar Profiles API or by going to the Google Scholar user profile page and getting it from there (e.g., https://scholar.google.com/citations?user={author_id}).	EicYvbwAAAAJ

Localization

Name	Type	Required	Description	Example
hl	String	No	Parameter defines the language to use for the Google Scholar Author search. It's a two-letter language code. (e.g., en for English, es for Spanish, or fr for French). Head to the Google languages page for a full list of supported Google languages.	en

Pagination

Name	Type	Required	Description	Example
start	Int	No	Parameter defines the result offset. It skips the given number of results. It's used for pagination. (e.g., 0 (default) is the first page of results, 20 is the 2nd page of results, 40 is the 3rd page of results, etc.).	20
num	Int	No	Parameter defines the number of results to return. (e.g., 20 (default) returns 20 results, 40 returns 40 results, etc.). Maximum number of results to return is 100.	20

Advanced Google Scholar Author Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description	Example
view_op	String	No	Parameter is used for viewing specific parts of a page. It has one options: view_citation - Select to view citations. citation_id is required . The data can be obtained from the citation id in the parameters	-
sort	String	No	Parameter is used for sorting and refining articles. Available options: title - Sorts articles by "Title". pubdate - Sorts articles by publish "date".	-
citation_id	String	No	Parameter is used for retrieving individual article citation. It is a required parameter when view_op=view_citation is selected. You can access IDs inside our structured JSON response.	view_op=view_citation

Serpapi Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description	Example
engine	String	Yes	Set parameter to google_scholar_author to use the Google Finance API engine.	google_scholar_author
no_cache	boolean	No	Parameter will force SerpApi to fetch the results even if a cached version is already present. A cache is served only if the query and all parameters are exactly the same. Cache expires after 1h. Cached searches are free, and are not counted towards your searches per month. It can be set to false (default) to allow results from the cache, or true to disallow results from the cache.	trueorfalse
api_key	string	Yes	Parameter defines the SerpApi private key to use.	123

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Response

Success 200

Response Body

{
  "search_metadata": {
    "raw_html_file": "https://webserp.abcproxy.com/files/aca43d1a86630b5d/d280e518-35c3-4139-a4dd-1d2cb1c0cd13.html",
    "xray_html_file": "https://webserp.abcproxy.com/files/aca43d1a86630b5d/d280e518-35c3-4139-a4dd-1d2cb1c0cd13.xray",
    "total_time_taken": "34.6082",
    "id": "d280e518-35c3-4139-a4dd-1d2cb1c0cd13",
    "json_endpoint": "https://webserp.abcproxy.com/files/aca43d1a86630b5d/d280e518-35c3-4139-a4dd-1d2cb1c0cd13.json",
    "created_at": "2025-04-02 18:33:10",
    "google_url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EicYvbwAAAAJ"
  },
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "google_scholar_author",
    "no_cache": true,
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "author_id": "EicYvbwAAAAJ"
  },
  "url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=EicYvbwAAAAJ",
  "author": {
    "name": "Ronald C Kessler",
    "affiliations": "McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School",
    "email": "Verified email at hcp.med.harvard.edu - ",
    "website": "Homepage",
    "interests": [
      {
        "title": "Psychiatric Epidemiology",
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:psychiatric_epidemiology"
      }
    ],
    "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=view_photo&user=EicYvbwAAAAJ&citpid=1"
  },
  "articles": [
    {
      "citation_id": "EicYvbwAAAAJ",
      "authors": "RC Kessler, P Berglund, O Demler, R Jin, KR Merikangas, EE Walters",
      "publication": "Archives of general psychiatry 62 (6), 593-602, 2005",
      "cited_by": {
        "value": "38823*",
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/scholar?oi=bibs&hl=en&cites=2173726401600747709,7905695317477875023,13998207051180299935,6712090670550418789,16204114791750186183,11857341765727177149,4333695256869118957,6440755144378445271,8105499853130787711,4971844839227102807",
        "cites_id": "2173726401600747709,7905695317477875023,13998207051180299935,6712090670550418789,16204114791750186183,11857341765727177149,4333695256869118957,6440755144378445271,8105499853130787711,4971844839227102807"
      },
      "year": "2005",
      "title": "Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&hl=en&user=EicYvbwAAAAJ&citation_for_view=EicYvbwAAAAJ:UeHWp8X0CEIC"
    },
  ],
  "cited_by": {
    "table": [
      {
        "Citations": [
          {
            "All": "596700"
          },
          {
            "Since 2020": "187280"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "h-index": [
          {
            "All": "346"
          },
          {
            "Since 2020": "196"
          }
        ]
      },
      {
        "i10-index": [
          {
            "All": "1315"
          },
          {
            "Since 2020": "1029"
          }
        ]
      }
    ],
    "graph": [
      {
        "year": "1994",
        "citations": "1602"
      },
    ]
  },
  "public_access": {
    "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=list_mandates&hl=en&user=EicYvbwAAAAJ",
    "available": "664 articles",
    "not_available": "14 articles"
  }
}

Response Fields

Field	Type	Description
search_parameters	Object	Contains query parameters and search context
search_metadata	Object	Contains timing and status information
author	Object	Author information parameter
articles[]	Object[]	articles information parameter
cited_by	Object	cited_by information parameter
public_access	Object	public_access information parameter
citations	Object	citations information parameter
co_authors[]	Object[]	co_authors information parameter

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Error Responses

Common Errors

HTTP Status	Error Code	Description
200	400	API Key can not be empty
200	401	Param error
200	402	API Key error
200	403	Insufficient Balance
200	404	Deduction failed
200	405	Failed to record usage count
200	406	Unsupported engine
200	407	Network error
200	408	File not found
200	409	Limit param error
200	410	Build url error
200	411	Failed to QueryRecentRecord
200	412	Failed to find json
200	413	Get html error
200	414	HTML is empty
200	429	Too many request

Error Example

{
  "code": 400,
  "message": "API Key can not be empty"
}

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