Clinical Trial Recruiter -- ClinicalTrials.gov API

Search active clinical trials from the official ClinicalTrials.gov database by condition, intervention, location, and recruitment status. This actor queries the ClinicalTrials.gov v2 API to return structured data on clinical studies, including trial phase, sponsor, enrollment targets, and direct links to the study page. Ideal for patient recruitment teams, pharmaceutical companies, and clinical research organizations who need to monitor the trial landscape programmatically.

What data can you get?

Each result includes the following fields extracted from ClinicalTrials.gov:

• nctId -- The unique National Clinical Trial identifier (e.g., NCT06012345)
• title -- Brief title of the clinical trial
• status -- Current recruitment status (Recruiting, Not Yet Recruiting, Completed, Active Not Recruiting)
• phase -- Trial phase (Phase 1, Phase 2, Phase 3, Phase 4, or combinations)
• studyType -- Interventional, Observational, or Expanded Access
• conditions -- List of diseases or conditions being studied
• interventions -- List of drugs, devices, or therapies being tested
• sponsor -- Lead sponsor organization name
• enrollmentCount -- Target number of participants
• url -- Direct link to the trial on ClinicalTrials.gov

Use cases

• Patient recruitment -- Find actively recruiting trials by condition and location to match eligible patients with open studies
• Competitive intelligence -- Track what trials competitors are running for specific drug classes or therapeutic areas
• Site selection -- Identify geographic concentrations of trials to plan new site locations
• Portfolio monitoring -- Monitor all trials for a specific sponsor or intervention across phases
• Market research -- Analyze trial volumes and phases by condition to assess pipeline maturity
• Academic research -- Build datasets of clinical trials for systematic reviews and meta-analyses

How to use

1. Open the actor in Apify Console and configure your search parameters (condition, intervention, location, status)
2. Set the maximum number of results you want (up to 5,000)
3. Click "Start" and wait for the run to complete. Results appear in the dataset tab.

Example input

{
  "condition": "diabetes",
  "intervention": "metformin",
  "location": "New York",
  "status": "RECRUITING",
  "maxResults": 50
}

Example output

{
  "nctId": "NCT06198374",
  "title": "Metformin Extended Release in Adults With Type 2 Diabetes",
  "status": "RECRUITING",
  "phase": "Phase 3",
  "studyType": "INTERVENTIONAL",
  "conditions": ["Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus"],
  "interventions": ["Metformin Hydrochloride"],
  "sponsor": "National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases",
  "enrollmentCount": 350,
  "url": "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT06198374",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-02-27T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Pricing

Event	Price
Actor start	$0.10
Per result	$0.0005

Example: 200 trials = $0.10 + $0.10 = $0.20 total

Integrations

Connect this actor to your workflows via webhooks, the Apify API, Zapier, Make, or Google Sheets. Schedule daily or weekly runs to monitor newly recruiting trials and build recruitment dashboards or alerting pipelines.

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