ScholarAPI is the unified programmatic gateway to the world's largest body of academic literature, sourced from thousands of Open Access journals and repositories.
application areas
We identify and index the full text and metadata of millions of papers from across the web, so you can focus on building instead of web crawling.
Use open-access texts and images from ScholarAPI to build curated scientific corpora for LLM and multimodal AI training. Stream updates so your models evolve with the literature. Track any niche—like oncology or battery chemistry—and grow specialist models that become smarter with every fine-tuning.
Case studyWire ScholarAPI into research workflows and analytics platforms to summarize breakthroughs, compare patents, and surface technical risks before procurement is locked in. Scan for prior art and validate experimental assumptions against global findings.
Check manuscript submissions, grant proposals, and student assignments against millions of published works to protect research quality. Detect potential plagiarism and uphold academic integrity while providing transparent evidence to authors.
Case studyWatch how pivotal works propagate through the literature, then notify authors the moment a new citation lands. Build and analyze citation graphs to visualize the spread of ideas, and deliver real-time impact metrics to researchers, funders, institutions.
Deploy automated agents to track new publications across specific domains. Monitor select entities, such as drug compounds, materials, or key authors. Filter out noise and highlight significant developments for immediate review.
Case studyBuild RAG knowledge bases and pipelines to provide precise context for every answer your AI generates, ensuring trust and traceability. Ground LLMs in reputable scholarly literature to improve accuracy and reduce hallucinations.
Access global research with a simple REST API. From prototype to production in days, not months.
Find papers by keywords or phrases. Boolean operators and multiple q parameters in a single call allowed (OR logic).
curl "https://scholarapi.net/api/v1/search?q=qubit&limit=50"...{
"results": [
{
"id": "96f3e91",
"title": "A fluorescent-protein spin qubit",
"authors": ["Feder, Jacob S.", "Soloway, Benjamin S.", ...],
"published_date": "2023-09-14",
"journal": "Nature",
...
}
]
}Iterate through publications by date or monitor for new content. Filter by keywords if needed or restrict results to entries with full text.
curl "https://scholarapi.net/api/v1/list?q=genome&indexed_after=2024-03-01T00:00:00Z&has_text=true"...{
"results": [
{
"id": "6d0b618",
"title": "AlphaFold Protein Structure Database...",
"indexed_at": "2024-03-01T12:30:45.851Z",
"has_text": true,
...
}
]
}Get full text extracted from PDF for analysis and LLM training.
Or, call /texts
for efficient bulk access to many documents at once.
curl "https://scholarapi.net/api/v1/text/1075ea1"...Evidence of spin and charge density waves in Chromium electronic bands The incommensurate spin density wave (SDW) of Chromium represents the classic example of itinerant antiferromagnetism induced by the nesting of the Fermi surface, which is further enriched by the co-presence of a charge density wave (CDW)... [... full text content ...]
Replace the dots "..." in every command above with your X-API-Key authentication header:
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