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Google Scholar unofficial API: search authors

Automatically search authors on scholar.google.com. Search Google Scholar's author (Profiles) directory by name/keywords. Returns each matching author's id, name, affiliation, verified-email domain, interest tags, and total cited-by count, plus a cursor for the next page.

Input

query required

Author name or keywords, as typed into Google Scholar's author search.

cursor optional

Opaque pagination cursor from a previous call's nextCursor. Omit for the first page.

Output

authors required
nextCursor required

Pass as `cursor` to fetch the next page. null when this is the last page.

FAQ

Search Google Scholar's author (Profiles) directory by name/keywords. Returns each matching author's id, name, affiliation, verified-email domain, interest tags, and total cited-by count, plus a cursor for the next page.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/scholar.google.com/search_authors, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/scholar.google.com/search_authors
You do not need one. "Google Scholar unofficial API: search authors" drives the real scholar.google.com pages in a browser, so it works whether or not scholar.google.com offers an API for this.
Required: query. Optional: cursor.
It returns authors, nextCursor.
Yes. It acts as you on scholar.google.com: on your own Chrome it reuses your session, and on a Reduck-hosted browser it loads the scholar.google.com cookies saved by the Reduck extension.
It only reads. It looks things up on scholar.google.com and changes nothing there.
Ask an AI agent connected to Reduck to run reduck/scholar.google.com/search_authors, or run it from a terminal with the Reduck CLI: npx @reduck-ai/cli@latest run --script reduck/scholar.google.com/search_authors
It is part of Reduck's official curated catalogue.

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