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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Frequently Asked Questions

Can I extract citation data from academic papers?

Yes. Extract citation counts, reference lists, and citing paper metadata from public academic databases. Build citation graphs for impact analysis and literature mapping.

How do I handle large-scale literature searches?

Send search result page URLs to extract paper listings in bulk. AlterLab handles pagination and JavaScript rendering for academic search engines and repositories.

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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Pricing

From $0.0002/request. No subscriptions. Balance never expires.

Your first scrape.
Sixty seconds.

$1 free credit — up to 5,000 scrapes. No credit card.Just a POST request.

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"]}'

No credit card required · $1 free credit, up to 5,000 scrapes · Balance never expires