---
title: "Search Google Scholar author profiles"
method: GET
path: "/v1/google/scholar/profiles"
tags: ["Google Scholar"]
---

# Search Google Scholar author profiles

`GET /v1/google/scholar/profiles`

Search Google Scholar for author profiles by name.

Google auth-gates the direct ``view_op=search_authors`` endpoint for
unauthenticated clients, so this handler falls back to a regular
``/scholar?q=<name>`` search and harvests unique
``/citations?user=<id>`` links from each result's author byline
(``gs_a`` div). The response schema is unchanged — each
``ScholarProfile`` carries ``author_id``, ``name``, and ``link``.
Affiliation, email domain, cited-by count, interests, and thumbnail
are intentionally left ``None`` because a search page doesn't carry
that metadata; callers who want them should pipe each ``author_id``
through ``/v1/google/scholar/author`` for the full profile.

``after_author`` / ``before_author`` pagination tokens are accepted
for API compatibility but ignored, since the fallback uses the main
Scholar search (which paginates via ``page=N``) rather than the
gated author-search view.

## Query parameters

- `mauthors` string, required — Author name query (e.g. 'Geoffrey Hinton')
- `hl` string — Language code
- `after_author` string, nullable — Pagination token for the next page
- `before_author` string, nullable — Pagination token for the previous page

## Response `200`

Successful Response

- ScholarProfilesResponse — Response for GET /api/v1/scholar/profiles.
  - `profiles` ScholarProfile[]
    - `position` integer, nullable
    - `author_id` string, nullable — Google Scholar user ID (the `user` query parameter)
    - `name` string, required
    - `link` string, nullable
    - `affiliation` string, nullable
    - `email_domain` string, nullable
    - `cited_by` integer, nullable
    - `interests` string[]
    - `thumbnail` string, nullable
  - `query` string, required
  - `language` string
  - `before_author` string, nullable — Pagination token for the previous page
  - `after_author` string, nullable — Pagination token for the next page

## Other responses

- `422` — Validation Error

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