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AI and LLM · 6th of 19 by usage

Semantic Scholar Scraper

Scrape Semantic Scholar with 200M+ academic papers and authors with full citation graph. Search, fetch by paper/author ID, get citations / references / recommendations, with abstracts, TLDRs, fields-of-study, open-access PDFs, h-index, affiliations, and more

Price
$0.005 per result
Runs to date
138
Teams using it
2
Last updated
2026-05-23

Run it from the API

POST · run and wait for the datasetcURL
curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/crawlerbros~semanticscholar-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{ "maxItems": 50 }' \
  -G --data-urlencode "token=$APIFY_TOKEN"

Billed $0.005 per result. The call returns the dataset directly, so there is nothing to poll for a run of this size.

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All 19 are ours and all are maintained, so the choice is about fit rather than quality. 1 of them cost less per result.

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