The Google Scholar papers your agent needs.
Google Scholar returns papers, books and case law, each with authors, year and citation count. Control it by year and type.
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Google Scholar APIfor AI agents
One API call to search Google Scholar. Get papers and citation counts as JSON.
What people use it for.
Start a literature review
Search a research question with yearFrom set to a recent year. Sort the results by citations to find the papers to read first.
Follow a citation trail
Send the citesId of a key paper. The results are the later works that build on it.
Collect open PDFs
Keep the results that have a pdfUrl. An agent can open those links and read the full text.
More Google endpoints.
- SearchSearch Google and get results, the AI Overview, the knowledge panel and related questions
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- ImagesSearch Google Images and get each full-size image with the page it comes from
- AI ModeAsk Google AI Mode a question and get its answer with the sources it cites
- ShoppingCompare product prices and sellers on Google Shopping by country
- SuggestionsGet Google search suggestions for a keyword
- Search adsSearch ads in the Google ads library
- AdGet a Google ad's details
- AdvertisersFind advertisers in the Google ads library
- VideosSearch Google's Videos tab for videos from every site, with duration and channel
- JobsSearch Google Jobs: openings from many job sites, with apply links and highlights
- PatentsSearch Google Patents by words, inventor, assignee, office, dates and status
- Maps searchSearch places on Google Maps by keyword and location
- Maps placeGet a place's address, hours, rating and contact details
- Maps reviewsGet a place's reviews
- Related searchesGet related searches for a keyword
- Trending nowGet what is trending on Google now
- FlightsSearch flights with prices and times
- HotelsSearch Google Hotels with prices, ratings and Google's own filters
- Play appGet an app's details from Google Play
- Play searchSearch Google Play apps
- Play reviewsGet an app's Google Play reviews
- Trends interest over timeGet Google Trends search interest over time, newest first, with one value per query
- Trends by regionGet Google Trends search interest by region
- All Google endpointsOne API for Google data. Get search results, Maps places, Trends, flights, Play apps and ads as JSON.
Ways to call it.
- Use the APISend a POST request with a Bearer key. Every endpoint returns success, data, creditsUsed and requestId.
- Use MCPAdd https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent finds an endpoint and calls it.
- Use the SDKInstall the TypeScript or Python client. Call an endpoint by its id, such as youtube.transcript.
- Use the CLICall an endpoint from the terminal. The CLI prints JSON, so you can pipe the result into a script.
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Questions and answers.
No. You call Stophy with a Stophy API key. You need no Google login and no library account.
A results list and the page number. Each work has title, url, authors, publication, year, publisher, snippet, citations, citesId, versions and pdfUrl.
Take the citesId of a result and send it in citesId. The call then lists the works that cite it, like the Cited by link on Scholar.
yearFrom and yearTo set a range of years. type takes any, reviewArticles or caseLaw. sort takes relevance or newest. includePatents adds patents, and includeCitations keeps or drops works known only from citations.
Set page to 2, 3 and so on, up to 20. Keep the same query and filters.
1 credit for each call that returns data. A call that returns an error or an empty list uses 0 credits.
Yes. Add the MCP server at https://api.stophy.dev/mcp to Claude, Cursor or Codex. The agent calls the endpoint by the id googleScholar.
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