# ClinicalTrials Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🧪🔬 (`delectable_incubator/clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost`) Actor

Scrape ClinicalTrials listings 🔵🔬 with a powerful clinical research scraper. Extract NCT IDs, recruitment status, conditions, locations, and trial URLs from search pages. Ideal for clinical research monitoring, healthcare trend analysis, and building structured medical research datasets 📊🚀

- **URL**: https://apify.com/delectable\_incubator/clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost.md
- **Developed by:** [Prime Scrape](https://apify.com/delectable_incubator) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Developer tools, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, NaN bookmarks
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## Pricing

from $0.00005 / actor start

This Actor is paid per event and usage. You are charged both the fixed price for specific events and for Apify platform usage.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

<p align="center"> <img src="https://i.ibb.co/jkNS73wX/readme.png" alt="ClinicalTrials.gov Trial Listings Scraper" width="100%"> </p>

---

### ClinicalTrials.gov Trial Listings Scraper 🔬🧪📊

The ClinicalTrials.gov Trial Listings Scraper is a powerful and scalable Apify Actor designed to extract structured clinical trial listings directly from ClinicalTrials.gov.

It enables medical research analysis, recruitment monitoring, healthcare intelligence, trial tracking, and structured dataset creation from one of the largest public clinical trial registries in the world.

---

### 🎯 What This Scraper Does

Simply provide one or more ClinicalTrials.gov search URLs and the scraper handles everything automatically.

✅ Extracts structured clinical trial listings

✅ Supports multiple ClinicalTrials.gov search URLs

✅ Handles pagination automatically

✅ Applies maxItemsPerUrl limits

✅ Collects trial metadata and recruitment status

✅ Captures conditions and study locations

✅ Generates clean and structured datasets

✅ Ready for healthcare analytics & automation workflows

✅ Ideal for medical research and AI pipelines

✅ Export-ready output format

---

### 📊 Data Extracted

🧪 Clinical Trial Information

| Field           | Description                               |
| --------------- | ----------------------------------------- |
| 🆔 `nctId`      | Unique Clinical Trial ID (NCT Identifier) |
| 📝 `title`      | Official clinical trial title             |
| 📌 `status`     | Recruitment status                        |
| 🧬 `conditions` | Conditions or diseases studied            |
| 🌍 `locations`  | Trial locations and study sites           |
| 🔗 `trialUrl`   | Direct ClinicalTrials.gov trial page      |
| 🌐 `sourceUrl`  | Original search URL used for extraction   |


---

### 🛠 How to Use

1️⃣ Configure Input  

Provide one or more ClinicalTrials.gov search URLs:

````

{
"urls": \[
"https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=cancer",
"https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=heart%20attack"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 100
}

```

2️⃣ Run the Actor

• Loads trial listings from each provided URL

• Automatically paginates search results

• Extracts structured clinical trial data

• Stops when maxItemsPerUrl is reached

• Structures clean export-ready datasets


3️⃣ Export the Dataset

Download your results in multiple formats:

✅ JSON

✅ CSV

✅ Excel

✅ XML

✅ HTML


---

### ⚙️ Input Configuration

#### 📥 Input Example

```

{
"urls": \[
"https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=cancer",
"https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=heart%20attack"
],
"maxItemsPerUrl": 100
}

```



#### Input Fields

| Field            | Type    | Description                                                |
| ---------------- | ------- | ---------------------------------------------------------- |
| `urls`           | array   | ClinicalTrials.gov search URLs                             |
| `maxItemsPerUrl` | integer | Maximum number of trials to scrape per URL (0 = unlimited) |

---


### 📤 Output Example

```

{
"nctId": "NCT04414150",
"title": "A Trial of SHR-1802 in Patients With Failure of Standard Treatment for Advanced Malignant Tumours",
"status": "Completed",
"conditions": "Malignant Tumours, Malignant Tumours",
"locations": "Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality, China",
"trialUrl": "https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT04414150?cond=cancer\&rank=1",
"sourceUrl": "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=cancer"
}

````

---

### 📊 Output explanation

| Use Case                        | Description                                    |
| ------------------------------- | ---------------------------------------------- |
| 🧪 Clinical Research Monitoring | Track ongoing and completed clinical trials    |
| 📊 Recruitment Analysis         | Monitor recruitment status changes             |
| 🧬 Medical Trend Analysis       | Analyze conditions and treatment research      |
| 🌍 Geographic Trial Mapping     | Map global study locations and sites           |
| 🤖 AI & Healthcare Datasets     | Build structured datasets for ML and analytics |


---

### 🌍 Why Use This Scraper? 

🚀 Extract ClinicalTrials.gov trial listings at scale

📊 Clean and structured healthcare datasets

🧬 Monitor medical research activity

🌎 Analyze global study locations

⚡ Fully automated pagination & extraction

🤖 Automation-ready for recurring monitoring

📈 Ideal for healthcare intelligence workflows

---

### ⚠️ Disclaimer

This tool is an independent solution and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ClinicalTrials.gov or the U.S. National Institutes of Health.

---

### 💸 Pricing

This scraper runs on a **pay per events subscription model**.

You only pay for **successful runs**.

💳 **Price:** $1.99 / 1000 results

---

### Related Actors 

If you're interested in other Healthcare, Jobs, Company Leads, or Research scraping solutions, explore more tools:

(Coming soon)

---

### 📬 Support

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Leave a 5-star rating if you like this tool

---

### 🌍 PrimeScrape

Built for scalable web data extraction & automation

Contact for custom scraping solutions or enterprise requests via Apify or by email.

# Actor input Schema

## `urls` (type: `array`):

One or more ClinicalTrials.gov search URLs.

Examples:
• https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=cancer
• https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=heart%20attack
• https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=diabetes&term=insulin
## `maxItemsPerUrl` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of trials to collect per URL. Set to 0 for no limit.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "urls": [
    "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=diabetes",
    "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=breast%cancer"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerUrl": 100
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `detailed` (type: `string`):

No description

## `by_source` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=diabetes",
        "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=breast%cancer"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerUrl": 100
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("delectable_incubator/clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "urls": [
        "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=diabetes",
        "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=breast%cancer",
    ],
    "maxItemsPerUrl": 100,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("delectable_incubator/clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "urls": [
    "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=diabetes",
    "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=breast%cancer"
  ],
  "maxItemsPerUrl": 100
}' |
apify call delectable_incubator/clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=delectable_incubator/clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "ClinicalTrials Scraper - Low-cost💲🔥🧪🔬",
        "description": "Scrape ClinicalTrials listings 🔵🔬 with a powerful clinical research scraper. Extract NCT IDs, recruitment status, conditions, locations, and trial URLs from search pages. Ideal for clinical research monitoring, healthcare trend analysis, and building structured medical research datasets 📊🚀",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "RJ7HpnSgUZorQAb1g"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-delectable_incubator-clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-delectable_incubator-clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/delectable_incubator~clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-delectable_incubator-clinicaltrials-scraper-low-cost",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "urls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "urls": {
                        "title": "Search URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "One or more ClinicalTrials.gov search URLs.\n\nExamples:\n• https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=cancer\n• https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=heart%20attack\n• https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=diabetes&term=insulin",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "default": [
                            "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=diabetes",
                            "https://clinicaltrials.gov/search?cond=breast%cancer"
                        ]
                    },
                    "maxItemsPerUrl": {
                        "title": "Max Items per URL",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of trials to collect per URL. Set to 0 for no limit.",
                        "default": 100
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
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                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
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                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "type": "integer",
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                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
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                                    },
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                                    }
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                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```