# Google Scholar Author API

Effortlessly extract detailed data from Google Author Profiles, encompassing both authors and their scholarly publications.

To harness this feature, integrate the `engine=google_scholar_author` parameter into your request.

The Google Scholar Author API specializes in scraping in-depth author profiles, providing swift access to data on established authors and their academic contributions. Take advantage of the various parameters to fine-tune and tailor your data extraction request for optimal results.

### Google Scholar Author API Integration Examples

We will use following URL as an example for this request:

```
https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ
```

### Ready to Use Google Scholar Author Scraping Scripts&#x20;

{% tabs %}
{% tab title="cURL" %}

```bash
curl --request GET --url "https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ"
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJS" %}

```javascript
const http = require("https");

const options = {
  "method": "GET",
  "hostname": "serp.shifter.io",
  "port": null,
  "path": "/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ",
  "headers": {}
};

const req = http.request(options, function (res) {
  const chunks = [];

  res.on("data", function (chunk) {
    chunks.push(chunk);
  });

  res.on("end", function () {
    const body = Buffer.concat(chunks);
    console.log(body.toString());
  });
});

req.end();
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Python" %}

```python
import http.client

conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("serp.shifter.io")

conn.request("GET", "/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ")

res = conn.getresponse()
data = res.read()

print(data.decode("utf-8"))
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="PHP" %}

```php
<?php

$curl = curl_init();

curl_setopt_array($curl, [
  CURLOPT_URL => "https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ",
  CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
  CURLOPT_ENCODING => "",
  CURLOPT_MAXREDIRS => 10,
  CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 30,
  CURLOPT_HTTP_VERSION => CURL_HTTP_VERSION_1_1,
  CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST => "GET",
]);

$response = curl_exec($curl);
$err = curl_error($curl);

curl_close($curl);

if ($err) {
  echo "cURL Error #:" . $err;
} else {
  echo $response;
}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Go" %}

```go
package main

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

func main() {

	url := "https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ"

	req, _ := http.NewRequest("GET", url, nil)

	res, _ := http.DefaultClient.Do(req)

	defer res.Body.Close()
	body, _ := ioutil.ReadAll(res.Body)

	fmt.Println(res)
	fmt.Println(string(body))

}
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Java" %}

```java
HttpResponse<String> response = Unirest.get("https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ")
  .asString();
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title=".NET" %}

```vbnet
var client = new RestClient("https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ");
var request = new RestRequest(Method.GET);
IRestResponse response = client.Execute(request);
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="Ruby" %}

```ruby
require 'uri'
require 'net/http'
require 'openssl'

url = URI("https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ")

http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(url)

response = http.request(request)
puts response.read_body
```

{% endtab %}
{% endtabs %}

### Google Scholar Profiles Parameters

#### #1: Query Parameter

<table><thead><tr><th width="187">Parameter</th><th width="107" align="center">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>author_id</code><br> <mark style="color:red;background-color:red;">Required</mark> </td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>The ID of the author you want to scrape.</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### #2: Request Customisation Parameters

<table><thead><tr><th width="184">Parameter</th><th width="106" align="center">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>device</code></td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>The device used for your search. Can be set to <code>desktop</code>, <code>mobile</code> or <code>tablet</code>.</td></tr><tr><td><code>view_op</code></td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>Is used to view specific parts of the page. It can be set to <code>view_citation</code> or <code>list_colleagues</code>.</td></tr><tr><td><code>sort</code></td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>Sorts the results. Can be set as <code>title</code> to sort by title or <code>pubdate</code> to sort by published date.</td></tr><tr><td><code>citation_id</code></td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>It's used to retrieve a specific citation. It is required when <code>view_op</code> is set on <code>view_citation</code>.</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### #3: Localisation Parameters

<table><thead><tr><th width="184">Parameter</th><th width="106" align="center">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>hl</code></td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>The language you want to use for your Google Search. <a href="https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/xml_results_appendices#interfaceLanguages">List of supported languages</a></td></tr></tbody></table>

#### #4: Pagination Parameters

<table><thead><tr><th width="184">Parameter</th><th width="106" align="center">Type</th><th>Description</th></tr></thead><tbody><tr><td><code>start</code></td><td align="center"><code>int</code></td><td>The offset of the Google Search Results. Represents the number of results that you want to skip.</td></tr><tr><td><code>num</code></td><td align="center"><code>int</code></td><td>The number of results returned on each page.</td></tr></tbody></table>

<details>

<summary>Response Example</summary>

```javascript
{
  "search_parameters": {
    "google_url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=LSsXyncAAAAJ&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8",
    "engine": "google_scholar_author",
    "google_domain": "scholar.google.com",
    "device": "desktop",
    "query": "LSsXyncAAAAJ"
  },
  "author": {
    "name": "Cliff Meyer",
    "affiliations": "Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health",
    "email": "Verified email at jimmy.harvard.edu",
    "interests": [
      {
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:computational_biology",
        "title": "Computational Biology"
      },
      {
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:epigenetics",
        "title": "Epigenetics"
      },
      {
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:gene_regulation",
        "title": "Gene Regulation"
      },
      {
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:genomics",
        "title": "Genomics"
      },
      {
        "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&hl=en&mauthors=label:transcription_factors",
        "title": "Transcription Factors"
      }
    ]
  }
}
```

</details>


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Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter:

```
GET https://developers.shifter.io/google-serp-api/search-apis/google-scholar-author-api.md?ask=<question>
```

The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language.
The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation.

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