RateMyProfessors Professors & Schools Scraper
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from $3.00 / 1,000 results
RateMyProfessors Professors & Schools Scraper
Scrape professors and school data from RateMyProfessors. Extract ratings, difficulty, would-take-again %, department, school name, and review counts
Pricing
from $3.00 / 1,000 results
Rating
5.0
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Developer
Crawler Bros
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4 days ago
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RateMyProfessors Scraper
Scrape public professor and school data from RateMyProfessors using the page state already embedded in the site HTML. This actor returns real professor profiles, school matches, ratings metrics, and optional recent-rating snapshots without logging in.
Use it for:
- education-market research
- professor discovery and comparisons
- school discovery by name
- collecting direct professor profile URLs
Modes
searchProfessors: Search professors globally by namebySchoolProfessors: Search professors within one school IDsearchSchools: Search schools by namebyProfessorIds: Resolve exact professor IDsbyProfessorUrls: Resolve exact professor profile URLs
Main Inputs
searchQuery: Search term for professor search modesschoolQuery: Search term for school search modeschoolId: Exact RateMyProfessors school ID for bySchoolProfessorsprofessorIds: Exact professor IDsprofessorUrls: Exact professor URLsminRating: Minimum professor average ratingminWouldTakeAgainPercent: Minimum would-take-again percentagemaxDifficulty: Maximum difficultydepartmentContains: Optional department substring filtercountryCodes: Optional country filter (US,CA,GB)sortBy: Result sortingincludeRatingsSnapshot: Include first-page rating snapshots on detail lookupsmaxItems: Maximum records to emit
Output
The actor emits professor, school, or error records.
Professor fields
- professor ID and direct URL
- first name, last name, full name
- department
- average rating
- number of ratings
- would-take-again percentage
- average difficulty
- school ID, school name, city, state, country code
- course codes
- related professors
- optional ratings snapshot from the professor page
School fields
- school ID
- school name
- city and state
- country code
- rounded average school rating
- number of school ratings
Notes
- This actor uses public HTML pages only.
- No cookies, login, or API key are required.
- Invalid lookup inputs return typed
errorrecords instead of failing silently.
Daily Test
The default prefill uses a broad professor-name query that reliably returns live data:
{"mode": "searchProfessors","searchQuery": "smith","maxItems": 5}