scholarly-python-package/scholarly
Retrieve author and publication information from Google Scholar in a friendly, Pythonic way without having to worry about CAPTCHAs! observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
56/100
- Activity 73
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 4292
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 162
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1879 stars · 348 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
scholarly is a Python library for retrieving author and publication metadata from Google Scholar through a friendly, Pythonic API. It handles anti-bot measures like CAPTCHAs via built-in proxy support so users can scrape scholarly data programmatically.
Use cases
- scrape author profiles from google scholar
- get publication citation data in python
- build a citation network for research analysis
- search google scholar programmatically without captchas
- collect bibliometric data for a paper
- track an academic's publication list over time
When to choose
- you need structured Google Scholar data in Python
- you want citation or author metadata for bibliometrics
- you need proxy support to avoid CAPTCHA blocks
When to avoid
- you need an official or licensed scholarly data API
- scraping Google Scholar violates your use policy
- you need high-volume scraping without rate limits
Facets
library · maturity active
web-scraping http-client parser search-engine data-science analytics developer-tools apis python cross-platform google-scholar citations bibliometrics academic-data scraping captcha-bypass proxy-support
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/scholarly-python-package/scholarly · fetched 2026-08-28 · 973022baaaa2
- registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/scholarly/json · fetched 2026-08-29 · a81305061acc
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| scholarly-python-package/scholarly | main | 56 |
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