Scrapes the Times Higher Education Rankings to get a list of the top universities.
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An API to get a list of top universities and their scores based on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings in various formats (HTML table, JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS feed).
Features
This scraper allows you to:
- get data from "Scores" tab of World University Rankings pages.
Future plans
- Scraping data from "Ranking" tab of World University Rankings pages
- Adding filters by:
- country/region
- subject
Input parameters
The input of this scraper should be JSON containing the filter for the year of ranking that should be scrapped. Required fields are:
Field | Type | Description |
---|---|---|
year | String | Select a year of the rankings |
Input example
{
"year": "2022"
}
Times Higher Education output format
The actor stores its results in a dataset. Each item is a separate item in the dataset.
Field | Description |
---|---|
rank | Rank of the university |
name | Name of the university |
detailLink | Link to the detail of the university |
country | Country of the university |
overallScore | Overall score |
teachingScore | Teaching score |
researchScore | Research score |
citationsScore | Citations score |
industryIncomeScore | Industry income score |
internationalOutlookScore | International outlook score |
Scraped Times Higher Education university scores
{
"rank": "1",
"name": "University of Oxford",
"detailLink": "https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/university-oxford",
"country": "United Kingdom",
"overallScore": "96.0",
"teachingScore": "91.8",
"researchScore": "99.5",
"citationsScore": "99.1",
"industryIncomeScore": "67.0",
"internationalOutlookScore": "96.3"
}
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