Rick and Morty Scraper 🛸

Scrape characters, locations and episodes from the entire Rick and Morty universe into clean, structured JSON. Built on the free Rick and Morty API — no API key, no login, no proxy required. Filter by name, paginate automatically and export to JSON, CSV, Excel or feed straight into your app.

Perfect for fan apps, ready-made datasets, portfolio demos and coding tutorials.

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✨ What it does

Pick a mode and a search query, and the actor returns every matching entity across all result pages:

Mode	Filters by	Returns
characters	name	status, species, gender, origin, current location, image, episode count
locations	name	dimension, location type, resident count
episodes	name	air date, episode code (e.g. S01E01), character count

Pagination follows the API's info.next link automatically, so you always get the full result set up to your maxItems limit.

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🚀 Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	characters	characters, locations or episodes
query	string	rick	Name filter for the selected mode
maxItems	integer	100 (max 1000)	Cap on total items scraped

Example input:

{
  "mode": "characters",
  "query": "rick",
  "maxItems": 100
}

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📦 Output

Every record is flat and analytics-ready. Example character:

{
  "type": "character",
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Rick Sanchez",
  "status": "Alive",
  "species": "Human",
  "gender": "Male",
  "origin": "Earth (C-137)",
  "location": "Citadel of Ricks",
  "image": "https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/character/avatar/1.jpeg",
  "episode_count": 51,
  "url": "https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/character/1",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-03T00:00:00+00:00"
}

Example location:

{
  "type": "location",
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Earth (C-137)",
  "dimension": "Dimension C-137",
  "location_type": "Planet",
  "residents_count": 27,
  "url": "https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/location/1",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-03T00:00:00+00:00"
}

Example episode:

{
  "type": "episode",
  "id": 1,
  "name": "Pilot",
  "air_date": "December 2, 2013",
  "episode_code": "S01E01",
  "characters_count": 19,
  "url": "https://rickandmortyapi.com/api/episode/1",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-03T00:00:00+00:00"
}

Export in one click as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or HTML from the Apify UI or API.

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💡 Use cases

• Fan apps — power a character explorer, trivia game or wiki bot.
• Datasets — grab a clean, ready-to-analyze Rick and Morty dataset for data-science and ML practice.
• Demos — a fast, reliable actor to showcase in tutorials or portfolios.
• Education — teach APIs, pagination and data cleaning with a fun dataset.

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💰 Pricing

This actor is lightweight and runs on the free public API, so it's cheap to run: roughly $0.50 per 1,000 items (input and output combined), depending on your Apify plan and compute settings. A typical full-character run costs just a few cents.

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🆚 Why this actor?

• No API key or account — works out of the box.
• No proxy needed — datacenter IPs work fine, keeping runs cheap.
• Three entity types in one actor (characters, locations, episodes).
• Clean, flattened output — nested names and array counts pre-computed.
• Automatic pagination and safe maxItems capping.

Compared to writing your own script, you get retries, a hosted schedule, one-click exports and structured storage for free.

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🛟 Support

Found a bug or want another field? Open an issue on the actor page and we'll respond quickly. Feature requests welcome.

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