ERIC Scraper

Want ERIC education documents in a spreadsheet? This scraper makes it easy.

Use structured filters — better for AI agents — or paste an input_url. When input_url is set it overrides the filters.

ERIC is the U.S. Department of Education library of journal articles, reports, and other education documents. This actor returns up to 2000 rows per run.

💡 Perfect for...

• Education research: Export journal articles, reports, and dissertations from ERIC.
• Dashboards: Track new documents on a subject without paging the site.
• Literature reviews: Slice the collection by author, subject, year, or peer review.
• Data analysts: Export structured rows with public document URLs.
• 🤖 AI Agents: Power Claude, Cursor, Codex, the Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw workflows with live ERIC results.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Feed titles, authors, and abstracts into retrieval pipelines.
• 🔗 AI Workflows: Plug into LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, and similar stacks.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🔗 Input URL or Filters: Paste an ERIC search or document URL, or pick the same filters as the site. input_url always wins when set.
• 🎯 Website-Matched Filters: Keyword, author, subject, publication type, education level, language, peer review, and year — the same controls as the ERIC search.
• 🌐 Listing cards: Title, authors, year, abstract, subject, publication type, and publisher.

📦 What's inside the data?

id, url, title, authors, year, abstract, field_of_study, publication_type, publisher, education_level, audience, language, peer_reviewed, issn, isbn, sponsor

🚀 Quick start

Option A: paste https://eric.ed.gov/?q=reading. Option B: type a keyword, author, or subject and set max_results.

Input Example (filters):

{
  "query": "reading",
  "publication_type": "Journal Articles",
  "peer_reviewed": true,
  "year_from": 2020,
  "max_results": 100
}

Input Example (URL):

{
  "input_url": "https://eric.ed.gov/?q=reading",
  "max_results": 100
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "ED621142",
  "url": "https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED621142",
  "title": "Report of the Commissioner of Education for the Year Ended June 30, 1916. Volume I",
  "authors": null,
  "year": 1916,
  "abstract": "Volume I begins with the Commissioner of Education's introduction and a general survey of education.",
  "field_of_study": "Educational Legislation; Urban Education; Rural Education",
  "publication_type": "Historical Materials; Reports - Descriptive",
  "publisher": "Office of Education, United States Department of the Interior.",
  "education_level": null,
  "audience": null,
  "language": "English",
  "peer_reviewed": false,
  "issn": null,
  "isbn": null,
  "sponsor": null
}

Output fields:

Field	Description
id	ERIC document id.
url	Public document page.
title	Document title.
authors	Authors when shown.
year	Publication year.
abstract	Abstract snippet.
field_of_study	Subjects and descriptors.
publication_type	Journal article, report, book, and so on.
publisher	Publisher or source.
education_level	Education level when shown.
audience	Audience when shown.
language	Document language.
peer_reviewed	Whether ERIC marks it peer reviewed.
issn	ISSN when shown.
isbn	ISBN when shown.
sponsor	Sponsor when shown.

📋 Input reference

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
input_url	string	No	—	ERIC search or document URL. Overrides every filter.
query	string	No	—	Same as the ERIC search box. Empty lists the public collection.
author	string	No	—	Author name.
subject	string	No	—	Subject or descriptor.
publication_type	dropdown	No	any	Journal articles, reports, books, dissertations, and the rest of the ERIC list.
education_level	dropdown	No	any	Early childhood through adult education.
language	dropdown	No	any	Document language.
peer_reviewed	boolean	No	false	Peer-reviewed documents only.
year_from	integer	No	—	Earliest publication year.
year_to	integer	No	—	Latest publication year.
max_results	integer	No	50	Maximum rows (1–2000).