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Google Scholar API

Google Scholar results for any query or for the papers citing a given work: title, link, authors (with Scholar profile ids), venue, year, host, snippet, the full-text PDF or HTML link, the cited-by count and link, all versions and related articles, plus the total result count. Filter by year range and sort by relevance or date. Verification pages are detected and never charged.

GEThttps://api.gridlode.com/v1/search/google/scholar
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Parameters

NameTypeDescription
qstringSearch query. Scholar operators work: author:"a einstein", source:nature, intitle:, "exact phrase".
Default: null
citesstringList the papers citing this Scholar cluster id (the number in a cited_by link). q then searches within the citing papers.
Default: null
hlstringInterface language, e.g. en, de, fr.
Default: "en"
pageintegerResults page (1-100).
Default: 1
numintegerResults per page (1-20).
Default: 10
year_fromstringOnly papers published in or after this year.
Default: null
year_tostringOnly papers published in or before this year.
Default: null
sortstringrelevance, or date (Scholar then lists only recent additions, newest first).
Default: "relevance"
One of: relevance, date
include_citationsbooleanInclude [CITATION] entries that have no online copy.
Default: true
max_ageintegerAccept a cached answer up to this many seconds old, billed at 50%. Default 0 (always fresh).

Response fields

    Code

    curl "https://api.gridlode.com/v1/search/google/scholar?q=attention%20is%20all%20you%20need" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $GRIDLODE_KEY"
    2 credits per request
    One credit is $0.001 on the smallest pack, from $0.0003 on enterprise plans.
    Half price for cached data
    Cached for up to 24 h. Pass max_age to use it.
    Failed requests are free
    Blocks, timeouts and target errors never cost credits.

    Market reference: SerpApi Google Scholar (plans from ~$15 per 1k); SearchAPI Google Scholar $4.00 → $1.00 per 1k.

    Questions

    How much does the Google Scholar API cost?

    2 credits per request. One credit costs $0.001 on the smallest pack and as little as $0.0003 on enterprise plans. Cached answers cost half and failed calls are free.

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