JSTOR Scraper for Articles, Journal Issues, Books and Primary Sources

Scrape JSTOR Data Item by Item: Articles, Issues, Books, Chapters

Each JSTOR item page, including the one shown to a visitor without access, carries a complete bibliographic record. We collect it under JSTOR's own identifiers, so every row leads back to its stable URL.

• Article record. Title; authors as the citation prints them; journal title with its series; volume, issue, month and year, as in Economica, New Series, Vol. 4, No. 16 (Nov., 1937); page range and page count; ISSN, DOI and stable URL; the publisher line, often a press publishing on behalf of a society; and the disciplines JSTOR assigns, such as Business and Economics. Item type tells full-length articles from JSTOR book reviews and miscellaneous items such as front matter, and an access flag marks what anyone can read. Where JSTOR shows an abstract or a summary, it comes with its label, including JSTOR's note when a summary was written by an AI system.
• Journal and issues. Each journal has a short code in its address, such as willmaryquar for The William and Mary Quarterly, and a page that lists the publisher, coverage as years and volume numbers, the moving wall, ISSN and EISSN, subjects, the collections that include it and a title history of earlier names. Issues are grouped by decade with number, month and page range, and each has its own i-prefixed ID and table of contents, so JSTOR journal issues line up from the first number to the last one the wall releases.
• Books and chapters. Title and subtitle, authors or editors, publisher, year, ISBN, DOI, description, discipline and open access status, then JSTOR book chapters one by one with title, page range and chapter DOI: book j.ctv102bd16 holds parts j.ctv102bd16.1 to .12, front matter paged in roman numerals.
• Research reports. Title, the think tank that published it, page count, disciplines, a DOI under the resrep prefix and its parts, free to read.

The JSTOR metadata stays joinable: article to issue, issue to journal, chapter to book, and every item to its publisher and to subjects grouped under headings such as Area Studies, Law or Science & Mathematics.

Open Content, Primary Sources and JSTOR Price Data

Part of JSTOR is free to everyone, and we tag it rather than mix it in. JSTOR early journal content covers articles published more than 95 years ago in the United States, or more than 143 years ago elsewhere, across hundreds of journals. JSTOR open access content adds open journals, thousands of open books, including Path to Open titles that turn open after a licensed period, tens of thousands of research reports from think tanks and close to a million Open Artstor images, while Reveal Digital adds open collections such as American Prison Newspapers. JSTOR Daily, the free magazine JSTOR publishes, ends each story with a Resources list of free-to-read scholarship. For JSTOR free content we note which open program covers each item, so a reading list can be filtered to what anyone can open.

JSTOR primary sources and images carry the fields their museums and archives supplied: title, creator, date, work type, culture, material, location, holding institution, collection, credit line and rights.

JSTOR prices are public as well. The JSTOR subscription price for one person is JPASS: $19.50 a month with 10 PDF downloads, or $199 a year with 120, in late September 2026. Institutions pay an Annual Access Fee per collection by classification, from Very small to Very large, with one-time payment options, so the JSTOR institutional subscription price becomes a table of collection, tier and fee, and a JSTOR JPASS price change shows up between two dated snapshots.