Google Scholar Profiles API

Find Google Scholar author profiles by name. Set engine=google_scholar_profiles and pass the name into mauthors to get a list of matching authors with their IDs, affiliations, and citation counts.

Endpoint

GET https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_profiles&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_profiles
mauthors	string	yes	The author name(s) to search for
hl	string	no	Interface language code
after_author	string	no	Next page token, must follow a before_author value
before_author	string	no	Previous page token

Example request

curl

curl "https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_profiles&api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&mauthors=jake"

Python

import requests

params = {
    "engine": "google_scholar_profiles",
    "api_key": "YOUR_API_KEY",
    "mauthors": "jake",
}
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_profiles',
  api_key: 'YOUR_API_KEY',
  mauthors: 'jake',
});
const data = await (await fetch(url)).json();

Example response

{
  "search_parameters": {
    "engine": "google_scholar_profiles",
    "mauthors": "jake"
  },
  "profiles": [
    {
      "name": "Jake Smith",
      "author_id": "LSsXyncAAAAJ",
      "affiliations": "Professor of Computer Science, MIT",
      "email": "Verified email at mit.edu",
      "cited_by": 18200,
      "interests": [ { "title": "Artificial Intelligence" } ],
      "thumbnail": "https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=view_photo&user=..."
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "next_page_token": "...",
    "next": "https://serp.shifter.io/v1?engine=google_scholar_profiles&mauthors=jake&after_author=..."
  }
}

See also

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