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GET/v1/search?type=scholar&q=transformer+attention
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  "searchParameters": {
    "q": "transformer attention",
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      "title": "Analyzing the structure of attention in a transformer language model",
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      "snippet": "… In this section, we present three visualizations of attention in the Transformer model: the attentionhead view, the model view, and the neuron view. Source code and Jupyter notebooks …",
      "year": 2019,
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    },
    {
      "title": "Attentionviz: A global view of transformer attention",
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      "publicationInfo": "C Yeh, Y Chen, A Wu, C Chen, F Viégas… - … on Visualization and …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org",
      "snippet": "… comprehending how transformers operate. (We include a brief introduction to transformers in Sec. 2.) The target of our analysis is the characteristic transformer self-attention mechanism…",
      "year": 2023,
      "citedBy": 191,
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    },
    {
      "title": "Neighborhood attention transformer",
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      "publicationInfo": "A Hassani, S Walton, J Li, S Li… - 2023 IEEE/CVF …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org",
      "snippet": "… , it provided empirical evidence that Transformerbased models outperform CNNs in larger scales. ViT paved the way for many more vision transformers, and attentionbased models in …",
      "year": 2023,
      "citedBy": 798,
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      "position": 3
    },
    {
      "title": "Synthesizer: Rethinking self-attention for transformer models",
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      "publicationInfo": "Y Tay, D Bahri, D Metzler, DC Juan… - International …, 2021 - proceedings.mlr.press",
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    },
    {
      "title": "A multiscale visualization of attention in the transformer model",
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      "publicationInfo": "J Vig - Proceedings of the 57th annual meeting of the …, 2019 - aclanthology.org",
      "snippet": "… their attention patterns (Vaswani et al.… by visualizing attention in the Transformer at multiple scales. We introduce a high-level model view, which visualizes all of the layers and attention …",
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      "title": "Spectformer: Frequency and attention is what you need in a vision transformer",
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      "title": "Vision transformer with deformable attention",
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      "publicationInfo": "Z Xia, X Pan, S Song, LE Li… - 2022 IEEE/CVF …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org",
      "snippet": "… This flexible scheme enables the self-attention module to focus on relevant regions and … Deformable Attention Transformer, a general backbone model with deformable attention for both …",
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      "title": "Transformer architecture and attention mechanisms in genome data analysis: a comprehensive review",
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The problem

Citation counts age the day you save them

Google has never offered a Scholar API. Literature reviews, citation tracking and research tools run on copy and paste, or on a scraper somebody has to keep alive.

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official Google Scholar APIs
1
paper at a time, by hand
What that costs youReviews that take weeks. Citation counts that are months old. A scraper that breaks mid-project.
The fix

A live read of Scholar does not

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The process

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STEP 1
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Your papers in one line. Or no code at all

Type what you would type into Google Scholar, in the playground or in one line of code. A topic, an author, a title.

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STEP 2
2

Ten papers. Right now

Each with the title, authors and venue, year, citation count, the PDF where Scholar has one and the page link. Ready for a spreadsheet, a reference manager or your model.

FieldWhat comes back
titleAnalyzing the structure of attention in a transformer language model
publicationInfoJ Vig, Y Belinkov - Proceedings of the 2019 ACL workshop …, 2019 - aclanthology.org
year2019
citedBy631
linkhttps://aclanthology.org/W19-4808/
pdfUrlhttps://aclanthology.org/W19-4808.pdf
+ snippet, id and the other papers on this query
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STEP 3
3

Page through. Same line, next ten

Ask for page 2, 3, 4 and you have the literature. Run it again next month and the citation counts move with it.

Ask forWhat comes back
page=2the next ten papers
hl=deGerman results
the same searchtoday’s citation counts
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Pricing

How much does it cost?

Pay as you go. One price per search, every field included, and you pay only when papers come back. Larger deposits get lower rates for those funds until they are spent.

SearchesCostRate
1,000$1.00$1.00 per 1,000, pay as you go
49K$49$1.00 per 1,000 with a $49 deposit
200K$149$0.76 per 1,000 with a $149 deposit
980K$549$0.56 per 1,000 with a $549 deposit
4.9M$1,999$0.41 per 1,000 with a $1,999 deposit
19.7M$6,500$0.33 per 1,000 with a $6,500 deposit
98.2M$27,500$0.28 per 1,000 with a $27,500 deposit
192.3M$50,000$0.26 per 1,000 with a $50,000 deposit
500M$100,000$0.20 per 1,000 with a $100,000 deposit
MoreCustomOngoing feeds, managed delivery, or volume below the ladder. Tell us what you need.

$6 free every month, no card. A search that returns nothing costs nothing. Your paid balance never expires.

Reference

What you get per paper

FieldWhat it holds
titlethe paper title
linkthe paper page
publicationInfoauthors, venue and year as Scholar prints them
snippetthe abstract lines Scholar shows
yearpublication year
citedByhow many papers cite it
pdfUrlthe PDF, where Scholar has one
htmlUrlthe full-text page, where there is one
idScholar’s id for the result
positionits rank
How to use

How do I use the Google Scholar API?

  1. 1

    Create a free account. No credit card required.

  2. 2

    Type a topic, an author or a title.

  3. 3

    Page through for more than ten.

  4. 4

    Download the list as a spreadsheet, use your API key, or tell your AI tool to pull it.

In code it is one line:

curl "https://crustapi.com/v1/search?type=scholar&q=transformer%20attention" \
  -H "x-api-key: YOUR_KEY"
Input

What can I set?

ParameterWhat it doesExample
typescholar for papers. patents for patents, web for the rest of Google.scholar
qThe query, as you would type it into Google Scholar.transformer attention
pageThe next ten papers.2
hlLanguage, like en or de.en
FAQ

Common questions

One request that returns Google Scholar results for a query as data: title, authors, venue, year, citation count, PDF and page links. Google does not offer one; this reads the public results anyone sees.

You get the PDF link where Scholar shows one, and the full-text page link where there is one. Ten papers a page.

Ten a page, in Scholar’s order. Ask for the next page for more.

1 second. That is the median a customer sees, measured through crustapi.com on the day this page was built.

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