# Disease Ontology Terms Scraper (`parseforge/disease-ontology-terms-scraper`) Actor

Look up Disease Ontology entries by keyword or DOID and retrieve doid, name, synonyms, definition, parents, children, xrefs, and deprecation status. Handy for biomedical knowledge graphs, clinical informatics, and mapping diseases across vocabularies in research workflows.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/disease-ontology-terms-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Education, Developer tools, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $7.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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```bash

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# README

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## 📈 Disease Ontology Terms Scraper

> 🚀 **Scrape Disease Ontology terms including DOID, name, synonyms, definition, parents, children, cross-references, and deprecation status.**

> 🕒 **Last updated** 2026-07-17 · **📊 9 fields** per record · **no API key needed**

Every record is mapped to a consistent schema - doid, name, synonyms, definition, parents, children and more, so you can filter, join and export without any glue code. No account or API key required to try it.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| Analysts, developers, researchers and operators who need this data as clean rows | Data collection, enrichment, monitoring, and feeding apps, sheets or models |

### 📋 What the Disease Ontology Terms Scraper does

- Collects the records you ask for as clean, structured rows
- Returns 9 fields per record including doid, name, synonyms, definition, parents, children
- Consistent, flat schema - ready for a spreadsheet, database or app
- Exports to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

> 💡 **Why it matters:** the raw source returns nested, paged responses. This Actor flattens them into one clean row per record, so the data drops straight into your workflow.

### 🎬 Full Demo (_🚧 Coming soon_)

### ⚙️ Input

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `searchTerm` | string | Disease keyword (e.g. 'leukemia') or specific DOID (e.g. DOID:1240). e.g. `leukemia`. |
| `maxItems` | integer | Cap on the number of results. Free: 10. Paid: up to 1,000,000. |
| `includeDeprecated` | boolean | If false, deprecated terms are skipped. |

````

{"searchTerm":"leukemia","maxItems":25}

````

### 📊 Output

Each item is one record with 9 fields:

| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| `doid` | string | DOID |
| `name` | string | Name |
| `synonyms` | string | Synonyms |
| `definition` | string | Definition |
| `parents` | string | Parents |
| `children` | string | Children |
| `xrefs` | string | Cross-refs |
| `deprecated` | boolean | Deprecated |
| `scrapedAt` | string | Scraped At |

### ✨ Why choose this Actor

- Clean, flat schema - ready to use
- No API key or account needed
- Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML
- Pay-per-event billing - only pay for records returned

### 🚀 How to use

1. [Create a free account w/ $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp)
2. Open the Actor on Apify Console
3. Fill in the input fields
4. Click Start
5. Download the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML

### 💼 Use cases

**Research and analysis** - study the data at scale in your own tools.

**Enrichment** - add structured records to a database, sheet or app.

**Monitoring** - track changes over time with scheduled runs.

**Datasets** - build clean datasets for reporting, dashboards or models.

### 🔌 Automating Disease Ontology Terms Scraper

Trigger the Actor via Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive, n8n or any HTTP webhook on Apify's integration platform.

### 🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this README into ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity or Copilot and ask how to integrate the data into your workflow.

### ❓ Frequently Asked Questions

**❓ Do I need an API key?** No - just set the input and run.

**❓ Free users?** Capped at 10 items per run - perfect for testing.

**❓ What output formats?** CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML - pick on the Storage tab.

**❓ Is the data live?** Yes - fetched at run time from www.disease-ontology.org.

**❓ Can I schedule it?** Yes - use Apify's scheduler or any webhook integration.

### 🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify provides webhooks, REST API, scheduled runs, dataset downloads, and integrations with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Google Drive, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, and more.

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) for more scrapers and all-in-one combos.

**🆘 Need Help?** [Open our contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA)

> **⚠️ Disclaimer:** independent tool, not affiliated with any data source named above. Only publicly available data is collected.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerm` (type: `string`):

Disease keyword (e.g. 'leukemia') or specific DOID (e.g. DOID:1240).
## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Free users limited to 10 items. Paid users up to 1,000,000.
## `includeDeprecated` (type: `boolean`):

If false, deprecated terms are skipped.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "searchTerm": "leukemia",
  "maxItems": 10,
  "includeDeprecated": false
}
````

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "searchTerm": "leukemia",
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/disease-ontology-terms-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "searchTerm": "leukemia",
    "maxItems": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/disease-ontology-terms-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "searchTerm": "leukemia",
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/disease-ontology-terms-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/disease-ontology-terms-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Disease Ontology Terms Scraper",
        "description": "Look up Disease Ontology entries by keyword or DOID and retrieve doid, name, synonyms, definition, parents, children, xrefs, and deprecation status. Handy for biomedical knowledge graphs, clinical informatics, and mapping diseases across vocabularies in research workflows.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "SB9MNVIvkcT5QEh7U"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/parseforge~disease-ontology-terms-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-parseforge-disease-ontology-terms-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~disease-ontology-terms-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-parseforge-disease-ontology-terms-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/parseforge~disease-ontology-terms-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-parseforge-disease-ontology-terms-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "searchTerm": {
                        "title": "Search term or DOID",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Disease keyword (e.g. 'leukemia') or specific DOID (e.g. DOID:1240)."
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max Items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 1000000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Free users limited to 10 items. Paid users up to 1,000,000."
                    },
                    "includeDeprecated": {
                        "title": "Include deprecated terms",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "If false, deprecated terms are skipped.",
                        "default": false
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
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                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                    },
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                                        "example": 0
                                    },
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                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```