Google Scholar Author API

Retrieve the full profile of a Google Scholar author, including their publication list, citation metrics, and colleagues. Set engine=google_scholar_author and pass the author’s ID in author_id.

Endpoint

GET https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY

Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
api_key	string	yes	Your SERP API key
engine	string	yes	Must be google_scholar_author
author_id	string	yes	The Google Scholar author ID
device	string	no	desktop, mobile, or tablet
view_op	string	no	view_citation or list_colleagues
sort	string	no	title or pubdate
citation_id	string	no	Required when view_op=view_citation
hl	string	no	Interface language code
start	int	no	Result offset for pagination
num	int	no	Number of results per page

Example request

curl

curl "https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_author&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&author_id=LSsXyncAAAAJ"

Python

import requests

params = {
    "engine": "google_scholar_author",
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "author_id": "LSsXyncAAAAJ",
}
r = requests.get("https://serp.shifter.io/v1", params=params)
data = r.json()

Node.js

import fetch from 'node-fetch';

const url = 'https://serp.shifter.io/v1?' + new URLSearchParams({
  engine: 'google_scholar_author',
  api_key: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  author_id: 'LSsXyncAAAAJ',
});
const data = await (await fetch(url)).json();

Example response

{
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "google_scholar_author",
    "author_id": "LSsXyncAAAAJ"
  },
  "author": {
    "name": "Jane Doe",
    "affiliations": "Professor, Stanford University",
    "email": "Verified email at stanford.edu",
    "interests": [ { "title": "Machine Learning" } ],
    "thumbnail": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_photo&user=..."
  },
  "articles": [
    {
      "title": "Deep learning for computer vision",
      "link": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_citation&...",
      "citation_id": "u5HHmVD_uO8C",
      "year": "2015",
      "cited_by": { "value": 4500 }
    }
  ],
  "cited_by": {
    "table": [ { "citations": { "all": 12000, "since_2019": 8000 } } ]
  }
}

See also

• Google SERP overview
• Response shape
• Google Scholar API
• Google Scholar Profiles API