mahendradata / topuniversities-scraper

An API (Apify actor) to get a list of top universities based on the QS World University Rankings in various formats (HTML table, JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS feed).

topuniversities-scraper

An API to get a list of top universities based on the QS World University Rankings in various formats (HTML table, JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS feed).

Currently, the scraper supports two modes:

• Basic mode (to get a list of ranked universities with basic data like name, country, and link to its detail)
• Detailed mode (to get detailed information about the universities by visiting its detail pages)

Future plans

• To scrape more information in the detailed mode
• To be able to filter countries for a region (e.g. Europe)

Input parameters

The input of this scraper should be JSON containing the filter of universities that should be scrapped. Required fields are:

Field	Type	Description
mode	String	Choose a mode (see the description above)
year	String	Select a year of the rankings
country	String	Select specific country or select "All countries" to not filter universities

Input example

{
  "mode": "basic",
  "year": "2020",
  "country": "Canada"
}