# Google Scholar Profiles API

Discover renowned authors featured on the Google Scholar platform using our dedicated API.

To access this specialized feature, incorporate the `engine=google_scholar_profiles` parameter in your request.

The Google Scholar Profiles API meticulously curates and delivers a comprehensive list of esteemed authors, precisely matched to the keyword specified in your query parameter. Dive into the academic world and uncover notable authors relevant to your research or interest.

### Google Scholar Profiles API Integration Examples

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

```
https://serp.shifter.io/v1?api_key=<YOUR_API_KEY>&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake
```

### Ready to use Google Scholar Profiles Scraping Scripts

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

```bash
curl --request GET --url "https://serp.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake"
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title="NodeJS" %}

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

const options = {
  "method": "GET",
  "hostname": "serp.shifter.io",
  "port": null,
  "path": "/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake",
  "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?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake")

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?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake",
  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?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake"

	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?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake")
  .asString();
```

{% endtab %}

{% tab title=".NET" %}

```vbnet
var client = new RestClient("https://serp.shifter.io/v1?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake");
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?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake")

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>mauthors</code><br> <mark style="color:red;background-color:red;">Required</mark> </td><td align="center"><code>string</code></td><td>The names that you are searching for (the query).</td></tr></tbody></table>

#### #2: 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>

#### #3: 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>after_author</code></td><td align="center"><code>int</code></td><td>Defines the next page token and must precede the value of <code>before_author</code>.</td></tr><tr><td><code>before_author</code></td><td align="center"><code>int</code></td><td>Defines the previous page token.</td></tr></tbody></table>

<details>

<summary>Response Example</summary>

```javascript
{
  "search_parameters": {
    "google_url": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=search_authors&mauthors=jake&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8",
    "engine": "google_scholar_profiles",
    "google_domain": "scholar.google.com",
    "device": "desktop",
    "query": "jake"
  },
  "profiles": [
    {
      "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=5cFtJIUAAAAJ&citpid=1",
      "name": "T. Jake Liang",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=5cFtJIUAAAAJ",
      "author_id": "5cFtJIUAAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "NIH",
      "email": "Verified email at nih.gov",
      "cited_by": 40822,
      "interests": [
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:viral_hepatitis_and_liver_diseases",
          "title": "Viral hepatitis and liver diseases"
        }
      ],
      "position": 1
    },
    {
      "thumbnail": "/citations/images/avatar_scholar_56.png",
      "name": "Jake Wilson",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=QnlIoyAAAAAJ",
      "author_id": "QnlIoyAAAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "Professor of French Art History, New York University",
      "email": "Verified email at asu.edu",
      "cited_by": 27844,
      "interests": [
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:french_art_history",
          "title": "French Art History"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:france",
          "title": "France"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:french_people",
          "title": "French people"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:wine",
          "title": "Wine"
        }
      ],
      "position": 2
    },
    {
      "thumbnail": "/citations/images/avatar_scholar_56.png",
      "name": "Jake Najman",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=ScAxfJ0AAAAJ",
      "author_id": "ScAxfJ0AAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "School of Public Health, The University of Queensland",
      "email": "Verified email at uq.edu.au",
      "cited_by": 26302,
      "interests": [
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:social_epidemiology",
          "title": "Social Epidemiology"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:illicit_drugs",
          "title": "Illicit Drugs"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:alcohol",
          "title": "Alcohol"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:life_course_epidemiology",
          "title": "Life Course Epidemiology"
        }
      ],
      "position": 3
    },
    {
      "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=UuXTH9wAAAAJ&citpid=2",
      "name": "M Jake Vander Zanden",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=UuXTH9wAAAAJ",
      "author_id": "UuXTH9wAAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "Professor, Center for Limnology, University of Wisconsin-Madison",
      "email": "Verified email at wisc.edu",
      "cited_by": 19828,
      "interests": [
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:lakes",
          "title": "lakes"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:freshwater",
          "title": "freshwater"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:food_webs",
          "title": "food webs"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:stable_isotopes",
          "title": "stable isotopes"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:invasive_species",
          "title": "invasive species"
        }
      ],
      "position": 4
    },
    {
      "thumbnail": "/citations/images/avatar_scholar_56.png",
      "name": "Jake K Byrnes",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=Sy18D70AAAAJ",
      "author_id": "Sy18D70AAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "Director, Computational Genomics, Vertex Pharmaceuticals",
      "cited_by": 18937,
      "interests": [
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:computational_biology",
          "title": "Computational Biology"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:drug_development",
          "title": "Drug Development"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:population_genetics",
          "title": "Population Genetics"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:statistical_genetics",
          "title": "Statistical Genetics"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:medical_genetics",
          "title": "Medical Genetics"
        }
      ],
      "position": 5
    },
    {
      "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=vY5xVdYAAAAJ&citpid=5",
      "name": "Jake Estes",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=vY5xVdYAAAAJ",
      "author_id": "vY5xVdYAAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "OHSU",
      "email": "Verified email at ohsu.edu",
      "cited_by": 17757,
      "interests": [
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:hiv_infection",
          "title": "HIV infection"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:inflammation",
          "title": "inflammation"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:immunology",
          "title": "immunology"
        }
      ],
      "position": 6
    },
    {
      "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=0Fl6C9oAAAAJ&citpid=1",
      "name": "Jake Lin",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=0Fl6C9oAAAAJ",
      "author_id": "0Fl6C9oAAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland",
      "email": "Verified email at helsinki.fi",
      "cited_by": 13570,
      "interests": [
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:computational_biology",
          "title": "Computational biology"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:statistical_genetics",
          "title": "Statistical genetics"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:metagenomics",
          "title": "Metagenomics"
        }
      ],
      "position": 7
    },
    {
      "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=rFB55r0AAAAJ&citpid=5",
      "name": "jake barralet",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=rFB55r0AAAAJ",
      "author_id": "rFB55r0AAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "Faculty of Medicine",
      "email": "Verified email at mcgill.ca",
      "cited_by": 13241,
      "interests": [
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:biomaterials",
          "title": "Biomaterials"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:tissue_engineering",
          "title": "Tissue Engineering"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:bioceramics",
          "title": "Bioceramics"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:oxygen_delivery",
          "title": "Oxygen Delivery"
        }
      ],
      "position": 8
    },
    {
      "thumbnail": "/citations/images/avatar_scholar_56.png",
      "name": "Jake F. Weltzin",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=dEEFq9YAAAAJ",
      "author_id": "dEEFq9YAAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "US Geological Survey",
      "email": "Verified email at usgs.gov",
      "cited_by": 12010,
      "interests": [
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:ecology",
          "title": "Ecology"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:climate_change",
          "title": "Climate Change"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:biological_invasions",
          "title": "Biological Invasions"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:phenology",
          "title": "Phenology"
        },
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:ecological_forecasting",
          "title": "Ecological Forecasting"
        }
      ],
      "position": 9
    },
    {
      "thumbnail": "https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/citations?view_op=small_photo&user=HjWB2ZoAAAAJ&citpid=1",
      "name": "Jacob (Jake) Van Dyk",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&user=HjWB2ZoAAAAJ",
      "author_id": "HjWB2ZoAAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "Western University",
      "email": "Verified email at uwo.ca",
      "cited_by": 11397,
      "interests": [
        {
          "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=en&view_op=search_authors&mauthors=label:radiation_oncology_medical_physics",
          "title": "Radiation Oncology Medical Physics"
        }
      ],
      "position": 10
    }
  ]
}
```

</details>