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# Search Scholar Profiles

> Search Google Scholar for author profiles by name.



## OpenAPI

````yaml GET /v1/google/scholar/profiles
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: ScrapeBadger Google Scraper
  description: >-
    Dedicated API for scraping Google products (SERP, Maps, News, Hotels,
    Trends, Jobs, Shopping, Patents, Scholar, Autocomplete, Images, Videos,
    Finance, AI Mode, Lens, Products).
  version: 1.0.0
servers:
  - url: https://scrapebadger.com
    description: Production
security:
  - apiKeyAuth: []
paths:
  /v1/google/scholar/profiles:
    get:
      tags:
        - Google Scholar
      summary: Search Google Scholar author profiles
      description: |-
        Search Google Scholar for author profiles by name.

        Google auth-gates the direct ``view_op=search_authors`` endpoint for
        unauthenticated clients, so this handler falls back to a regular
        ``/scholar?q=<name>`` search and harvests unique
        ``/citations?user=<id>`` links from each result's author byline
        (``gs_a`` div). The response schema is unchanged — each
        ``ScholarProfile`` carries ``author_id``, ``name``, and ``link``.
        Affiliation, email domain, cited-by count, interests, and thumbnail
        are intentionally left ``None`` because a search page doesn't carry
        that metadata; callers who want them should pipe each ``author_id``
        through ``/v1/google/scholar/author`` for the full profile.

        ``after_author`` / ``before_author`` pagination tokens are accepted
        for API compatibility but ignored, since the fallback uses the main
        Scholar search (which paginates via ``page=N``) rather than the
        gated author-search view.
      operationId: scholar_profiles_api_v1_scholar_profiles_get
      parameters:
        - name: mauthors
          in: query
          required: true
          schema:
            type: string
            description: Author name query (e.g. 'Geoffrey Hinton')
            title: Mauthors
          description: Author name query (e.g. 'Geoffrey Hinton')
        - name: hl
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            type: string
            description: Language code
            default: en
            title: Hl
          description: Language code
        - name: after_author
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: After Author
            description: Pagination token for the next page
          description: Pagination token for the next page
        - name: before_author
          in: query
          required: false
          schema:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: 'null'
            title: Before Author
            description: Pagination token for the previous page
          description: Pagination token for the previous page
      responses:
        '200':
          description: Successful Response
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/ScholarProfilesResponse'
        '422':
          description: Validation Error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                $ref: '#/components/schemas/HTTPValidationError'
components:
  schemas:
    ScholarProfilesResponse:
      properties:
        profiles:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ScholarProfile'
          type: array
          title: Profiles
        query:
          type: string
          title: Query
        language:
          type: string
          title: Language
          default: en
        before_author:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Before Author
          description: Pagination token for the previous page
        after_author:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: After Author
          description: Pagination token for the next page
      type: object
      required:
        - query
      title: ScholarProfilesResponse
      description: Response for GET /api/v1/scholar/profiles.
    HTTPValidationError:
      properties:
        detail:
          items:
            $ref: '#/components/schemas/ValidationError'
          type: array
          title: Detail
      type: object
      title: HTTPValidationError
    ScholarProfile:
      properties:
        position:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          title: Position
        author_id:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Author Id
          description: Google Scholar user ID (the `user` query parameter)
        name:
          type: string
          title: Name
        link:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Link
        affiliation:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Affiliation
        email_domain:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Email Domain
        cited_by:
          anyOf:
            - type: integer
            - type: 'null'
          title: Cited By
        interests:
          items:
            type: string
          type: array
          title: Interests
        thumbnail:
          anyOf:
            - type: string
            - type: 'null'
          title: Thumbnail
      type: object
      required:
        - name
      title: ScholarProfile
      description: One author card from the Scholar profile search page.
    ValidationError:
      properties:
        loc:
          items:
            anyOf:
              - type: string
              - type: integer
          type: array
          title: Location
        msg:
          type: string
          title: Message
        type:
          type: string
          title: Error Type
        input:
          title: Input
        ctx:
          type: object
          title: Context
      type: object
      required:
        - loc
        - msg
        - type
      title: ValidationError
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: x-api-key

````