🧬 InterPro Protein Families Scraper

🚀 Export protein family and domain entries from InterPro in one run. Pull from a catalog of more than 51,000 entries across the EBI InterPro database.

Turn the EBI InterPro classification database into clean, structured records you can drop into a bioinformatics pipeline, a functional annotation table, or a protein research notebook. Fetch specific accessions like IPR000001, or browse the full catalog and narrow it to a single entry type such as family or domain.

Coverage is the complete public InterPro entry set as the EMBL-EBI InterPro API publishes it: every entry with its accession, type, name, integrated member database signatures from Pfam, SMART, CDD, PANTHER and more, Gene Ontology terms, overlapping superfamilies, and live counts of matching proteins, structures, taxa, and pathways.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Bioinformaticians and computational biologists	Annotate proteins with family and domain assignments
Database and tool builders	Seed a local copy of the InterPro classification
Protein and structural biology researchers	Map signatures, GO terms, and overlapping superfamilies
Data scientists in life sciences	Build feature tables from family membership and counts

📋 What the InterPro Protein Families Scraper does

This Actor calls the public EBI InterPro REST API and returns one clean record per entry:

• By accession — provide a list of InterPro accessions and get exactly those entries with full detail.
• Browse all — leave the accession list empty to walk the whole catalog, optionally filtered to one entry type.

Each record carries the entry accession, type, name, short name, member database signatures, GO terms, overlapping superfamilies, a cleaned text description, live counters, and a scrapedAt timestamp.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: accession, description, goTerms, goTermsCount, memberDatabaseCount, memberDatabaseList, name, overlapsWith, pathwayCount, proteinCount, scrapedAt, shortName, signatures, signaturesCount, sourceDatabase, structureCount, taxaCount, type, url. All 19 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
2. Open the InterPro Protein Families Scraper.
3. Either paste a list of accessions, or leave it empty and pick a type to browse.
4. Set maxItems to the number of records you want.
5. Click Start and grab your results when the run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with InterPro, EMBL-EBI, or the European Bioinformatics Institute. Only publicly available data is collected.

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