Web Scraping API

Academic Research Data API

Collect metadata from research papers, citation networks, and academic databases for literature reviews and scientometric analysis.

3M+ Research papers published yearly$2.9B by 2027 Research data management market30-50% of research time Time on literature reviews

How It Works

1

Target academic sources

Access public research repositories, preprint servers, and academic search engines.

2

Extract paper metadata

Pull titles, authors, abstracts, citation counts, and publication details from research listings.

3

Build research datasets

Create citation graphs, topic maps, and literature databases for systematic reviews.

Quick Start

cURL
curl -X POST https://alterlab.io/api/v1/scrape \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "url": "https://arxiv.org/search/?query=machine+learning",
    "extract": {
      "papers": [{
        "title": "string",
        "authors": "string[]",
        "abstract": "string",
        "date": "string",
        "arxiv_id": "string"
      }]
    }
  }'

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Responsible Use

AlterLab is designed for extracting publicly available data. Always review the terms of service for any website you access, respect robots.txt directives, and ensure your use case complies with applicable laws in your jurisdiction.

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terminal
curl -X POST https://api.alterlab.io/v1/scrape \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"url": "https://example.com", "formats": ["markdown"]}'

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