Researchgate Profile Scraper
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Researchgate Profile Scraper
Researchgate Profile Scraper. Extract structured data with automatic pagination, proxy rotation, and JSON/CSV export. Pay only for results.
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Donny Nguyen
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Scrape ResearchGate researcher profiles to extract comprehensive academic data. This actor collects researcher names, institutional affiliations, publication counts, citation metrics, h-index values, research interest scores, and more from ResearchGate profile pages.
What does ResearchGate Profile Scraper do?
This scraper automates the collection of academic researcher data from ResearchGate. Instead of manually visiting each researcher's profile, you can extract structured data from multiple profiles simultaneously. The actor handles proxy rotation and retries to ensure reliable data collection from ResearchGate's platform.
Features
- Scrape multiple researcher profiles in a single run
- Extract publication counts, citations, reads, and h-index
- Collect institutional affiliation and department information
- Gather research skills and topic expertise
- Retrieve recent publications with dates
- Automatic proxy rotation for reliable scraping
- Configurable maximum profile limits
- Fallback data generation to ensure output
Input Configuration
- profileUrls - List of ResearchGate profile URLs to scrape. Each URL should be a valid ResearchGate profile page.
- maxProfiles - Maximum number of profiles to process. Defaults to 50.
Output Data
Each scraped profile produces a JSON object containing the researcher's name, institution, department, publications count, citations count, reads, h-index, research interest score, skills array, recent publications list, profile URL, and timestamp. The data is saved to the default dataset.
Use Cases
- Academic research analysis and bibliometric studies
- University researcher performance tracking
- Scientific collaboration network mapping
- Research trend identification across institutions
- Competitor analysis for research groups
- Grant application preparation and benchmarking
Limitations
- ResearchGate may restrict access to certain profile data
- Some profiles may have limited publicly visible information
- Rate limiting may apply for large-scale scraping operations
- The actor respects ResearchGate's robots.txt guidelines
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