Google

Google Scholar Author API

Retrieve a Scholar author profile, citation metrics and 20 articles per page.

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Make a request

Use your existing PrismCrawl API key and credit balance. A completed request consumes one credit, including recognized empty or unavailable results and source changes found during a valid continuation. Validation and operational errors remain uncharged. Each completed continuation request is billed separately.

POST /v1/google/scholar/author

curl 'https://api.prismcrawl.com/v1/google/scholar/author' \
  --request POST \
  --header 'content-type: application/json' \
  --header 'x-api-key: <PRISMCRAWL_API_KEY>' \
  --data '{
  "id": "qc6CJjYAAAAJ"
}'

Supported parameters

Parameter	Usage
`id`Required	The provider's identifier, as returned by its search results.
`language`	Provider-supported language code, such as en.
`page`	One-based page number.
`sort_by`	The provider's supported sort order. year, citations
`device`	Device presentation for the source request. desktop, mobile, tablet
`html`	Return the encoded original response rather than parsed JSON.
`zero_trace`	Do not archive source or parsed response artifacts.

Structured results

Read items from data.content.results. The response also includes the search metadata, pagination state, and any extracted SERP features. Optional fields appear when supplied by the provider.

affiliationverified_emailinterestscitation_metricsarticlestyperankidtitlenameurlpositionthumbnailratingsnippetdescriptionaddresscategoryphonewebsitereview_countrating_maxrating_sourcelatitudelongitudecoordinates

SDKs and guides

The official SDKs cover this endpoint with typed parameters, automatic retries, and pagination helpers.

Python SDK: pip install prismcrawl
Node.js SDK: npm install prismcrawl