ORCID Researcher Scraper 🎓

Turn the world's largest open registry of researchers into a structured lead list. This Apify Actor scrapes ORCID — the standard identifier for academics and scientists — and returns clean JSON/CSV/Excel records: names, institutions, emails, keywords, and biographies. No API key. No login. Datacenter-proxy friendly.

Search by keyword, research topic, or name — or resolve a list of ORCID iDs directly to full profiles.

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✨ What you get

Every researcher is one dataset item:

Field	Description
orcid_id	The 16-digit ORCID iD (e.g. 0000-0002-1825-0097)
given_names / family_names	Split name parts
name	Display name (credit-name, else given + family)
institutions	List of affiliations / employers
emails	Public emails (when the researcher made them public)
keywords	Research keywords (when enriched / in profiles mode)
biography	Public bio, capped at 3000 chars (when enriched / profiles mode)
url	Public ORCID profile URL
source	Always orcid
scraped_at	UTC ISO timestamp

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🚀 Modes

search — keyword / name → researcher list

Feed research topics or names. The Actor pages ORCID's expanded-search and returns matching researchers with names, institutions, and public emails. Set enrich: true to additionally fetch keywords + biography for every hit.

profiles — ORCID iDs → full detail

Feed a list of ORCID iDs (bare or as orcid.org URLs). Each is resolved to a full profile including affiliations from the employments record, keywords, and biography.

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🧾 Example input

{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": ["machine learning", "quantum computing"],
  "enrich": true,
  "maxItems": 200
}

{
  "mode": "profiles",
  "orcidIds": ["0000-0002-1825-0097", "0000-0003-1613-5981"]
}

📦 Example output

{
  "orcid_id": "0000-0002-1825-0097",
  "name": "Josiah Carberry",
  "given_names": "Josiah",
  "family_names": "Carberry",
  "institutions": ["Wesleyan University", "Brown University"],
  "emails": [],
  "keywords": ["psychoceramics", "ionian philology"],
  "biography": "Josiah Carberry is a fictitious person...",
  "url": "https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097",
  "source": "orcid",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-20T00:00:00Z"
}

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💡 Use cases

• Academic lead generation — build targeted outreach lists of researchers in a field.
• Research collaboration — find potential co-authors, reviewers, or partners by topic.
• Recruiting scientists — source PhDs, postdocs, and PIs by expertise and institution.
• Scholarly datasets — assemble reproducible researcher datasets for bibliometrics.

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💰 Pricing

Pay-per-result, roughly ~$0.50 per 1,000 researchers plus platform compute. ORCID is a clean public API, so runs are fast and cheap. Start with a small maxItems to preview.

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🔗 Related actors

• Semantic Scholar Scraper
• OpenAlex Scraper
• Crossref Scraper
• Email Finder Scraper

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⚖️ Notes & compliance

This Actor reads only public ORCID data via the official public API. Emails and biographies appear only where the researcher chose to make them public. Respect ORCID's terms and applicable privacy laws (e.g. GDPR) when using the data for outreach.

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