Times Higher Education Scraper

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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