SearchAPI.io - Google Scholar API

SearchAPI.io tool searchapi-io-google-scholar on looot: input fields, $0.004 per call, output shape, and code to run it with curl, JavaScript or Python.

Google Scholar API allows you to search for scholarly literature including articles, theses, books, conference papers, and more. You can filter by language, year, and court decisions. Cross-linking: The cites_id from cited_by can be used as the cites parameter to find all documents citing a specific article. The cluster_id from versions can be used as the cluster parameter to find all versions of a specific article.

Tool id: searchapi-io-google-scholar
Provider: SearchAPI.io
Job: Google scholar search (search.google-scholar)
Price: $0.004 per call. A call that fails at the provider costs $0.

Inputs

Name	Type	Required	Description
`as_rr`	integer	no
`as_sdt`	string	no
`as_vis`	integer	no
`as_yhi`	integer	no
`as_ylo`	integer	no
`cites`	string	no
`cluster`	string	no
`engine`	string	no	Fixed to “google_scholar” for this endpoint. Example: “google_scholar”
`filter`	integer	no
`hl`	string	no
`lr`	string	no
`num`	integer	no
`page`	integer	no
`q`	string	no
`scisbd`	integer	no
`source`	string	no

Output

The run’s result holds the provider’s answer. Signed in, looot inspect searchapi-io-google-scholar prints its fields.

Run it

Every call needs your API token in LOOOT_TOKEN; Sign in shows how to get one. Each run also needs a new idempotency key, so a retry never pays twice. With wait: 30 the answer comes back inline when the run ends within 30 seconds. Otherwise you get the running run back: poll GET /v1/runs/<runId>.

Example input with placeholder values:

curl -X POST "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $LOOOT_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Idempotency-Key: $(uuidgen)" \
  -d '{"endpointId":"searchapi-io-google-scholar","input":{"engine":"google_scholar"},"wait":30}'

const response = await fetch("https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    Authorization: `Bearer ${process.env.LOOOT_TOKEN}`,
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
    "Idempotency-Key": crypto.randomUUID(),
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({
    endpointId: "searchapi-io-google-scholar",
    input: {
      engine: "google_scholar",
    },
    wait: 30,
  }),
});
const run = await response.json();
console.log(run.status, run.result);

import os
import uuid

import requests

response = requests.post(
    "https://api.looot.ai/v1/runs",
    headers={
        "Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['LOOOT_TOKEN']}",
        "Idempotency-Key": str(uuid.uuid4()),
    },
    json={
        "endpointId": "searchapi-io-google-scholar",
        "input": {
            "engine": "google_scholar",
        },
        "wait": 30,
    },
    timeout=90,
)
run = response.json()
print(run["status"], run.get("result"))

To let looot pick among every provider of this job instead, send job:search.google-scholar as endpointId; see the job page.