🎓 FindAPhD Scraper

Want FindAPhD projects 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.

FindAPhD lists thousands of PhD projects, programmes, and studentships. This actor returns up to 2000 rows per run.

💡 Perfect for...

• Students: Export titles, institutions, funding, and deadlines for a country or field.
• Dashboards: Track new FindAPhD hits without paging the site.
• Market research: Slice PhD supply by discipline, location, funding, or project type.
• Data analysts: Export structured rows with public project URLs.
• 🤖 AI Agents: Power Claude, Cursor, Codex, the Hermes Agent, and OpenClaw workflows with live FindAPhD results.
• 📚 RAG Systems: Feed titles, institutions, and disciplines into retrieval pipelines.
• 🔗 AI Workflows: Plug into LangChain, AutoGPT, CrewAI, and similar stacks.

✨ Why you'll love this scraper

• 🔗 Input URL or Filters: Paste a FindAPhD search, or pick the same filters as the site. input_url always wins when set.
• 🎯 Website-Matched Filters: Keyword, discipline, location, funding, and PhD type.
• 🌐 Listing cards: Title, institution, country, discipline, funding, and deadline.

📦 What's inside the data?

id, url, title, institution, country, discipline, funding, phd_type, deadline

🚀 Quick start

Option A: paste https://www.findaphd.com/latest-phds/. Option B: pick a discipline or country and set max_results.

Input Example (filters):

{
  "discipline": "computer-science",
  "country": "united-kingdom",
  "max_results": 100
}

Input Example (URL):

{
  "input_url": "https://www.findaphd.com/latest-phds/",
  "max_results": 100
}

Output Example:

{
  "id": "193548",
  "url": "https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/saturn-cdt-gas-transport-in-compacted-bentonite-in-high-salinity-environments/?p193548",
  "title": "(SATURN CDT) Gas transport in compacted bentonite in high salinity environments",
  "institution": "University of Strathclyde",
  "country": "United Kingdom",
  "discipline": "Physics",
  "funding": "Competition Funded PhD Project (UK Students Only)",
  "phd_type": "PhD Research Project",
  "deadline": null
}

Output fields:

Field	Description
id	FindAPhD project id.
url	Public project page.
title	Project title.
institution	University or research institute.
country	Location when shown.
discipline	Subject area when shown.
funding	Funding type when shown.
phd_type	Research project or programme when shown.
deadline	Application deadline as a full date and time when a date is shown.

📋 Input reference

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
input_url	string	No	—	FindAPhD search or listing URL. Overrides every filter.
query	string	No	—	Same as the site search box.
discipline	dropdown	No	any	Subject area from the site filter.
country	dropdown	No	any	Country from the location filter.
funding	dropdown	No	any	UK students, self-funded, or other funding types.
phd_type	dropdown	No	any	Research project or research programme.
max_results	integer	No	50	Maximum rows (1–2000).