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Semanticscholar Scraper API

Access any Semanticscholar page using our Semanticscholar Scraper API. Point one API request at a Semanticscholar URL and get structured JSON back while we get past CAPTCHAs, IP rate limiting, IP blocking, and headless-browser detection through residential proxies. Get back fields like paper title, authors, abstract, citation count as structured JSON.

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Request

curl "https://api.chocodata.com/api/v1/universal/get?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https://www.semanticscholar.com/"

JSON Response

200 OK

{
  "success": true,
  "url": "https://www.semanticscholar.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "content": "parsed Semanticscholar page content..."
  // + more fields
}

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Semanticscholar is served through the Universal Web Scraper API

You scrape Semanticscholar with Chocodata's Universal Web Scraper API: point it at any Semanticscholar URL and get the page back as structured JSON. Residential proxies, rotation, and retries are handled for you, with no Semanticscholar-specific setup. The same API key and credits work here as on every dedicated endpoint.

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About Semanticscholar

Semantic Scholar is an AI-powered academic search engine from the Allen Institute for AI that indexes scholarly papers across disciplines. Its public paper and search pages expose titles, authors, abstracts, citation counts, and references that are worth scraping for research discovery.

Scraping note: The site is a JavaScript single-page app, but Semantic Scholar publishes a free public Graph API that is the recommended way to pull paper and citation data.

Example Semanticscholar page

https://www.semanticscholar.org/search?q=transformer%20neural%20network

Pass a URL like this as url= to the Universal Web Scraper API and get it back as JSON.

Fields you can extract from Semanticscholar

check_small paper title check_small authors check_small abstract check_small citation count check_small publication year check_small venue

Common use: A literature-mapping tool scrapes Semantic Scholar to follow citation links and build a graph of influential papers around a research question.

Everything you need to scrape Semanticscholar

You never expose your own IP, you get validated JSON instead of raw HTML, and the free tier covers semanticscholar scraper at 1,000 requests a month with no card required.

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Clean structured JSON

The Semanticscholar page comes back as JSON in the parse mode you choose: auto, html, text, or json. No selectors to maintain for semanticscholar scraper.

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Bypasses CAPTCHAs and anti-bot defenses

We get past CAPTCHAs, IP rate limiting, IP blocking, and headless-browser detection on Semanticscholar using rotating, country-matched residential proxies, so requests look like real users and your own IP stays private.

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One API call

Scraping Semanticscholar is one simple API call. The same key works across our whole web scraping API: all 235 targets, any language, no SDK required.

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Geo-targeting and JS rendering

Pass a country for proxy geo-targeting and turn on JavaScript rendering when a Semanticscholar page needs it. semanticscholar data api handles dynamic content and region-locked results.

Scrape Semanticscholar in one API request

Send one API request to the Universal Web Scraper API with a Semanticscholar URL and read the page back as JSON. Chocodata routes it through residential proxies and retries soft blocks, so semanticscholar api works without a Semanticscholar-specific integration.

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Request

curl "https://api.chocodata.com/api/v1/universal/get?api_key=YOUR_API_KEY&url=https://www.semanticscholar.com/"

Response

{
  "success": true,
  "url": "https://www.semanticscholar.com/",
  "status": 200,
  "content": "parsed Semanticscholar page content..."
  // + more fields
}

Parameters

Semanticscholar routes through the Universal Web Scraper API, so the parameters are the universal ones: the URL to fetch, an optional parse mode, and an optional country for proxy geo-targeting.

Parameter	Type	Required	Example
url	string	required	https://example.com
parse	enum	optional	auto
country	string	optional	us

Enum parameters accept a fixed set of values. For example, parse accepts auto, html, text, json.

What you can build with Semanticscholar data

Once the scraping API returns Semanticscholar search data as clean JSON, these are the patterns teams reach for most.

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Data Aggregation

Pull Semanticscholar search records into your own warehouse and analyze them on your terms.

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Market Intelligence

Track Semanticscholar search data over time to spot market shifts before competitors do.

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Competitor Monitoring

Watch rivals on Semanticscholar and alert your team when prices, ranks, or listings change.

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Lead Generation

Turn Semanticscholar search data into targeted lead lists and feed them into your CRM.

Why developers pick Chocodata for Semanticscholar

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Fast at the tail

Median 2.6 s per request with multi-tier retry, so latency stays predictable even when Semanticscholar fights back.

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Parity-checked output

The Universal scraper returns the live page faithfully in your chosen parse mode.

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One key, 235 targets

The same scraping API key that scrapes Semanticscholar works across every other target, with official Node, Python, and Go SDKs.

Simple pricing that scales with you

Start free with 1,000 requests a month and 5,000 credits, no credit card. Scale on monthly plans from $19, or top up pay-as-you-go at $0.90 per 1,000 successful requests. Only successful 2xx responses are billed, and every plan covers the full scraping API: all 235 targets and every endpoint.

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Forever free on signup

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$19 / month

$0.70 / 1k effective

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Pro

$49 / month

$0.60 / 1k effective

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Custom

$100-$2k / month

Flat $0.50 / 1k effective at every level

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Pay-as-you-go top-up

$0.90 / 1,000 successful requests

Available on every plan including Free. Top up any time when included credits run out. Only 2xx responses charged. Balance never expires.

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Semanticscholar Scraper API FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Semanticscholar?

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Scraping publicly accessible Semanticscholar data is generally legal in the US under the Ninth Circuit's hiQ v. LinkedIn ruling, which held that scraping public web data does not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. It does not override Semanticscholar's own Terms of Service, which are a contract matter, so check those for your use case and comply with data laws such as GDPR. This is general information, not legal advice.

How do I scrape Semanticscholar without getting blocked?

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You scrape Semanticscholar without getting blocked by sending the URL to the Universal Web Scraper API, which fetches it through rotating residential proxies and retries on soft blocks. Your own IP is never used, so Semanticscholar's anti-bot layer sees ordinary residential traffic instead of a server.

What data does the Semanticscholar Scraper API return?

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Through the Universal Web Scraper API you get the Semanticscholar page back as JSON: rendered HTML, plain text, or auto-parsed content depending on the parse mode you pass. You choose the URL, Chocodata returns the data.

How much does the Semanticscholar Scraper API cost?

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The Semanticscholar Scraper API costs nothing to start: the Free plan includes 1,000 requests per month (5,000 credits) across all 235 targets. After that, monthly plans begin at $19, or you top up pay-as-you-go at $0.90 per 1,000 successful requests. One request is 5 credits, and non-2xx responses are never charged.

Do I need a Semanticscholar account or login?

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No Semanticscholar login is needed for public pages. You point the Universal Web Scraper API at a publicly accessible Semanticscholar URL with your Chocodata API key; you do not hand over any Semanticscholar credentials. Login-gated content is not supported.

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