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You can get a **1-week free trial** by registering on the [dashboard](https://dashboard.oxylabs.io/).\n\nFor a detailed walkthrough with explanations and visuals, check our [blog post](https://oxylabs.io/blog/how-to-scrape-google-scholar).\nAlso, do not hesitate to check this [Best SERP APIs](https://medium.com/@oxylabs.io/the-10-best-serp-apis-in-2024-22bf7f91f8f0) list \n## The complete code\n\n```python\nimport requests\nfrom bs4 import BeautifulSoup\n\n\nUSERNAME = \"USERNAME\"\nPASSWORD = \"PASSWORD\"\n\n\ndef get_html_for_page(url):\n    payload = {\n        \"url\": url,\n        \"source\": \"google\",\n    }\n    response = requests.post(\n        \"https://realtime.oxylabs.io/v1/queries\",\n        auth=(USERNAME, PASSWORD),\n        json=payload,\n    )\n    response.raise_for_status()\n    return response.json()[\"results\"][0][\"content\"]\n\n\ndef get_citations(article_id):\n    url = f\"https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=info:{article_id}:scholar.google.com\u0026output=cite\"\n    html = get_html_for_page(url)\n    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, \"html.parser\")\n    data = []\n    for citation in soup.find_all(\"tr\"):\n        title = citation.find(\"th\", {\"class\": \"gs_cith\"}).get_text(strip=True)\n        content = citation.find(\"div\", {\"class\": \"gs_citr\"}).get_text(strip=True)\n        entry = {\n            \"title\": title,\n            \"content\": content,\n        }\n        data.append(entry)\n\n    return data\n\n\ndef parse_data_from_article(article):\n    title_elem = article.find(\"h3\", {\"class\": \"gs_rt\"})\n    title = title_elem.get_text()\n    title_anchor_elem = article.select(\"a\")[0]\n    url = title_anchor_elem[\"href\"]\n    article_id = title_anchor_elem[\"id\"]\n    authors = article.find(\"div\", {\"class\": \"gs_a\"}).get_text()\n    return {\n        \"title\": title,\n        \"authors\": authors,\n        \"url\": url,\n        \"citations\": get_citations(article_id),\n    }\n\n\ndef get_url_for_page(url, page_index):\n    return url + f\"\u0026start={page_index}\"\n\n\ndef get_data_from_page(url):\n    html = get_html_for_page(url)\n    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, \"html.parser\")\n    articles = soup.find_all(\"div\", {\"class\": \"gs_ri\"})\n    return [parse_data_from_article(article) for article in articles]\n\n\ndata = []\nurl = \"https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=global+warming+\u0026hl=en\u0026as_sdt=0,5\"\n\nNUM_OF_PAGES = 1\npage_index = 0\nfor _ in range(NUM_OF_PAGES):\n    page_url = get_url_for_page(url, page_index)\n    entries = get_data_from_page(page_url)\n    data.extend(entries)\n    page_index += 10\n\nprint(data)\n```\n\n## Final word\n\nCheck our [documentation](https://developers.oxylabs.io/scraper-apis/web-scraper-api/google) for more API parameters and variables found in this tutorial.\n\nIf you have any questions, feel free to contact us at support@oxylabs.io.\n\nRead More Google Scraping Related Repositories: [Google Sheets for Basic Web Scraping](https://github.com/oxylabs/web-scraping-google-sheets), [How to Scrape Google Shopping Results](https://github.com/oxylabs/scrape-google-shopping), [Google Play Scraper](https://github.com/oxylabs/google-play-scraper), [How To Scrape Google Jobs](https://github.com/oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-jobs), [Google News Scrpaer](https://github.com/oxylabs/google-news-scraper), [How to Scrape Google Flights with Python](https://github.com/oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-flights), [How To Scrape Google Images](https://github.com/oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-images), [Scrape Google Search Results](https://github.com/oxylabs/scrape-google-python), [Scrape Google Trends](https://github.com/oxylabs/how-to-scrape-google-trends)\n","project_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Foxylabs%2Fhow-to-scrape-google-scholar","html_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/projects/github.com%2Foxylabs%2Fhow-to-scrape-google-scholar","lists_url":"https://awesome.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/projects/github.com%2Foxylabs%2Fhow-to-scrape-google-scholar/lists"}