DANDI Neuroscience Datasets Scraper
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DANDI Neuroscience Datasets Scraper
$0.5/1K ๐ฅ DANDI Neuro Data! Browse neuroscience datasets with assets & contributors. No key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Discover open neurophysiology datasets โก
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Harvest the full DANDI Archive catalog of neuroscience datasets (Dandisets) in structured JSON โ with species, experimental approaches, measurement techniques, data standards (NWB / BIDS), dataset size, subject counts and contributors. No API key, no login, no scraping fragile HTML: this actor talks directly to the public DANDI REST API.
DANDI (Distributed Archives for Neurophysiology Data Integration) is the NIH BRAIN Initiative archive for cellular neurophysiology data. Its datasets are openly licensed (CC0 / CC-BY), making them ideal for meta-research, reproducibility work and building neuroscience data indexes.
What you get
Each output record (type: "dandiset") includes:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
identifier, name, description | Dandiset ID, title, abstract |
version, is_published | Published version string (or "draft") |
embargo_status, star_count | Access + popularity signals |
asset_count, size_bytes, file_count, subject_count | Scale of the dataset |
species | e.g. Mus musculus, Homo sapiens (from assetsSummary) |
approaches, measurement_techniques | e.g. microscopy / electrophysiology, surgical technique |
data_standards | e.g. NWB, BIDS |
keywords, license, about | Tags, license, anatomy/disease foci |
contributors ([{name, roles}], cap 20), contributor_count, contact_person | Authorship |
created, modified, url, source, scraped_at | Provenance |
Input
| Property | Type | Default | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
mode | select | dandisets | What to scrape (dandiset catalog). |
searchQuery | string | โ | Substring filter on name / description / keywords. |
speciesFilter | string | โ | Substring on species, e.g. Mus musculus. |
publishedOnly | boolean | false | Keep only Dandisets with a published version. |
enrichDetails | boolean | true | Fetch each version's full assetsSummary metadata. |
maxItems | integer | 200 | Max records to output (1โ3000). |
Example
{"mode": "dandisets","speciesFilter": "Mus musculus","publishedOnly": true,"enrichDetails": true,"maxItems": 500}
Use cases
- Neuroscience data discovery โ find datasets by species, technique or brain region.
- Meta-research โ quantify what's being recorded, from whom, at what scale.
- NWB / BIDS dataset harvesting โ build an index of standards-compliant data.
- Reproducibility โ snapshot dataset metadata, contributors and versions over time.
Pricing
Roughly ~$0.50 per 1,000 dandisets on the Apify platform (pay-per-result). The DANDI API is free; you only pay for compute/results.
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License & attribution
This actor only retrieves publicly available metadata from the DANDI Archive. Dandisets
are licensed CC0 / CC-BY by their depositors โ check each record's license field and
cite the DANDI Archive and the original authors when reusing data.