---
title: "Scholar Search"
method: POST
path: "/search/scholar"
tags: ["Search"]
---

# Scholar Search

`POST /search/scholar`

## Request

- Base URL: `https://api.weblens.dev`
- URL: `https://api.weblens.dev/search/scholar`
- Auth: API key in header `Payment-Signature`

Google Scholar academic search. Returns papers with snippets, publication info, and citation counts. Price: $0.015.

## Request body

- object
  - `query` string, required: Search query
  - `limit` number: Maximum results to return

## Response `200`

Academic papers with publication info and citation counts.

- object
  - `query` string
  - `results` object[]: Papers with position, title, url, snippet, publicationInfo, citedBy
    - `position` integer
    - `title` string
    - `url` string
    - `snippet` string
    - `publicationInfo` string
    - `citedBy` integer
  - `searchedAt` string
  - `requestId` string

## Other responses

- `400`: The body failed validation
- `402`: Payment required — x402 v2 protocol. Parse the PAYMENT-REQUIRED response header (base64-encoded JSON), sign the payment with your wallet, then retry the request with the Payment-Signature request header.

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