There is an author API that provides a metrics view of a Scopus ID. Here this shows there are about 77 documents for me, cited about 3028 times. Why do I say "about"? Apparently there are two different databases that Scopus uses, one for the web, and one for this API, and they do not return the same data. It is close, but not the same. The API database includes thing that are published after 1995, and it may not be updated as quickly as the web database. For example the web page reports 79 documents and 3143 citations. In the next sections we will use the search API, which returns the same information as what is on the web. Here we just illustrate how to setup an http request in Python. I like json output, so we ask for it.