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DANDI Neuroscience Datasets Scraper

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DANDI Neuroscience Datasets Scraper

DANDI Neuroscience Datasets Scraper

$0.5/1K ๐Ÿ”ฅ DANDI Neuro Data! Browse neuroscience datasets with assets & contributors. No key. JSON, CSV, Excel or API in seconds. Discover open neurophysiology datasets โšก

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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:

FieldDescription
identifier, name, descriptionDandiset ID, title, abstract
version, is_publishedPublished version string (or "draft")
embargo_status, star_countAccess + popularity signals
asset_count, size_bytes, file_count, subject_countScale of the dataset
speciese.g. Mus musculus, Homo sapiens (from assetsSummary)
approaches, measurement_techniquese.g. microscopy / electrophysiology, surgical technique
data_standardse.g. NWB, BIDS
keywords, license, aboutTags, license, anatomy/disease foci
contributors ([{name, roles}], cap 20), contributor_count, contact_personAuthorship
created, modified, url, source, scraped_atProvenance

Input

PropertyTypeDefaultDescription
modeselectdandisetsWhat to scrape (dandiset catalog).
searchQuerystringโ€”Substring filter on name / description / keywords.
speciesFilterstringโ€”Substring on species, e.g. Mus musculus.
publishedOnlybooleanfalseKeep only Dandisets with a published version.
enrichDetailsbooleantrueFetch each version's full assetsSummary metadata.
maxItemsinteger200Max records to output (1โ€“3000).

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.

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.