Crossref Funder Registry Scraper — Research Funder Data API

Extract the Crossref Open Funder Registry — the canonical, openly-licensed list of the world's research funding organizations: government agencies, foundations, charities, research councils, and corporate funders. Each funder has a persistent Funder DOI identifier used across millions of scholarly articles to attribute grants and funding.

This Actor turns the registry into clean JSON, CSV, or Excel, perfect for normalizing funder names, building grant-attribution pipelines, or enriching research-intelligence datasets.

What you get

Field	Description
funderId	Crossref Funder ID (the numeric DOI suffix, e.g. 100000002)
name	Canonical / preferred funder name
location	Country the funder is based in
altNames	Alternate names, abbreviations, and translations
uri	Funder DOI URI (https://doi.org/10.13039/...)
replaces	Funder IDs this entry supersedes (merge history)
replacedBy	Funder ID this entry was merged into, if any
doiUrl	Resolvable DOI URL for the funder

Why this matters

Funder names are notoriously messy in raw publication metadata — "NIH", "U.S. National Institutes of Health", and "National Institutes of Health (NIH)" all mean the same body. The Funder Registry is the authority that resolves them. Use this Actor to:

• Normalize and disambiguate funder names in a bibliometrics or grants database
• Build a funder lookup table keyed on the persistent Funder DOI
• Enrich research-intelligence and RevOps datasets with canonical funder + country data
• Feed RAG / LLM agents a clean, query-ready funder reference

How to scrape the Crossref Funder Registry

1. Click Try for free.
2. Set your filters:
   • Search Query — free-text across funder names and alternate names (e.g. cancer, national science). Leave blank to pull the full registry.
   • Max Results — cap the run, or 0 for as many as Crossref's deep paging allows (10,000).
3. Click Start and download as JSON, CSV, or Excel.

Example input

{
  "query": "cancer",
  "maxResults": 1000
}

Example output

{
  "funderId": "501100006331",
  "name": "Canceropôle PACA",
  "location": "France",
  "altNames": "Canceropole PACA",
  "uri": "https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006331",
  "replaces": "",
  "replacedBy": "",
  "doiUrl": "https://doi.org/10.13039/501100006331"
}

Pricing

This Actor uses pay-per-result pricing — a few cents for thousands of canonical funder records, plus standard Apify compute. The Actor queries Crossref through the polite pool with a mailto identifier for reliable throughput.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? The official Crossref REST API /funders endpoint backing the Open Funder Registry. The registry is published under CC0.

How fresh is the data? Each run queries Crossref live, so registry updates and merges are reflected immediately.

Why is maxResults capped at 10,000? Crossref limits offset-based deep paging to 10,000 records per query. Use the Search Query field to target specific subsets beyond that.

Do I need an API key? No. The Actor uses the public, key-free Crossref API and identifies itself via the polite pool.

Other Actors

Building a scholarly or research-intelligence pipeline? Pair this with our other academic and bibliographic scrapers on the Apify Store.

Legal

This Actor retrieves only publicly available, CC0-licensed funder metadata from Crossref. It does not access personal data or bypass authentication. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with Crossref's terms.