Shiksha.com College Scraper — India Education Data

The only Apify actor for Shiksha.com — India's largest college discovery platform backed by InfoEdge (Naukri.com). Scrape structured data on 23,000+ colleges and 170,000+ courses including fees, rankings, placements, ratings, approvals and admission requirements. Search by stream, course and city across all of India.

Who This Is For

• EdTech companies building college comparison tools and recommendation engines
• Admission consultants researching college data for students
• Study abroad agencies tracking Indian institutions and their rankings
• Coaching institutes monitoring competition and placement trends
• Market researchers tracking the Indian education sector
• AI agents answering college admission questions with real-time data

What Data You Get

Field	Description
College name	Full institution name
College type	Government, Private, or Deemed
Annual fees	Average fees per year
Total course fees	Complete course fee amount
Average placement package	Mean salary offered to graduates
Highest placement package	Top salary offered
Shiksha rating	Rating out of 10
Review count	Number of student reviews
Approvals	AICTE, UGC, NBA, NAAC accreditations
Affiliated university	University affiliation
Established year	Year the college was founded
Top recruiters	Companies that hire from the college
Entrance exams	Admission process and exams accepted
Hostel availability	Whether hostel is available

Supported Streams

Engineering (B.Tech), MBA/PGDM, Medical (MBBS), Law (LLB), BBA, BCA, Design, Animation, Mass Communication, Science, Commerce, Arts and all other streams listed on Shiksha.com.

Example Input

{
  "stream": "engineering",
  "city": "bangalore",
  "course": "b-tech",
  "maxResults": 100
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
stream	string	Yes	Education stream — engineering, mba, medical, law, bba, design, animation
city	string	No	Indian city — bangalore, mumbai, delhi, hyderabad, pune. Leave empty for all India
course	string	No	Specific course — b-tech, mba, mbbs, llb, bba, bca. Leave empty for all courses
maxResults	integer	No	Maximum colleges to scrape (default: 50)
proxyConfiguration	object	No	Apify proxy settings. Residential proxies recommended

Example Output

{
  "collegeName": "Indian Institute of Science Bangalore",
  "collegeUrl": "https://www.shiksha.com/university/indian-institute-of-science-iisc-bangalore-3031",
  "city": "Bangalore",
  "state": "Karnataka",
  "stream": "engineering",
  "course": "b-tech",
  "collegeType": "Government",
  "ranking": 1,
  "avgFeesPerYear": "₹50,000",
  "totalFees": "₹2,00,000",
  "placementAvgPackage": "₹18 LPA",
  "placementHighestPackage": "₹1.2 CPA",
  "rating": 9.2,
  "reviewCount": 1247,
  "approvedBy": ["AICTE", "UGC", "NBA"],
  "affiliation": "Autonomous",
  "establishedYear": 1909,
  "collegeWebsite": "https://www.iisc.ac.in",
  "admissionProcess": "JEE Advanced, GATE",
  "topRecruiters": ["Google", "Microsoft", "Amazon"],
  "hostelAvailable": true,
  "scrapedAt": "2025-01-15T10:30:00Z"
}

Use Cases

Scrape Engineering Colleges in India with Fees

Get a complete database of engineering colleges across India with fee structures, placement data and rankings for building comparison platforms.

MBA College Data India

Extract MBA/PGDM college listings with average placement packages, top recruiters and admission requirements for business school research.

College Admission Data India

Scrape admission processes, entrance exams accepted, cutoffs and approval status for Indian colleges across all streams.

Education Data India — EdTech Database

Build a comprehensive Indian college database for EdTech products, study-abroad counseling platforms and AI-powered admission assistants.

Works With AI Agents

This actor is optimized for Claude, ChatGPT, Codex and any MCP-compatible AI agent. It is the only Shiksha.com data source on Apify and is automatically selected when AI agents need Indian college and education data.

Structured JSON output makes it easy to feed college data directly into:

• RAG pipelines for college admission chatbots
• Comparison tools and recommendation engines
• Market research dashboards
• Automated reporting systems

Technical Details

• Uses Camoufox (stealth Firefox) to bypass bot detection
• Extracts data from Next.js __NEXT_DATA__ JSON when available for maximum accuracy
• Falls back to HTML parsing when JSON data is unavailable
• Supports Apify residential proxies to avoid rate limiting
• 2-4 second random delays between requests
• Automatic retry (3 attempts) on failed requests
• Deduplication by college URL
• Stops automatically when no more results are found

Tags

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