# Google Scholar Scraper - Papers, Citations, Authors

An ai tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/george.the.developer/google-scholar-scraper

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `query` (string): Search Query
- `authorId` (string): Author Profile ID
- `maxResults` (integer): Maximum Results (e.g. 50)
- `language` (string): Language (e.g. "en")
- `yearFrom` (integer): Year From
- `yearTo` (integer): Year To

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=Google%20Scholar%20Scraper%20-%20Papers%2C%20Citations%2C%20Authors with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "Google Scholar Scraper - Papers, Citations, Authors"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md