EBI Ontology Lookup Service Scraper
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EBI Ontology Lookup Service Scraper
Browse the EBI Ontology Lookup Service catalogue of biomedical ontologies. Returns ontology id, title, description, term count, property count, version, homepage, and namespace. Useful for bioinformatics tooling, ontology alignment, and semantic research across life science domains.
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🔤 EBI Ontology Lookup Service Scraper
🚀 Export biomedical ontologies from the EBI Ontology Lookup Service in seconds. Ontology IDs, titles, descriptions, term counts, and versions — direct from the public OLS v4 API.
The EBI Ontology Lookup Service Scraper turns the EBI Ontology Lookup Service v4 public endpoint into a clean, structured dataset. It queries the source live, normalizes the response into one row per record, and pushes the result into an Apify dataset you can download or pipe to your warehouse.
Every ontology hosted by EBI OLS, hundreds covering biomedical and life sciences vocabularies are covered in a single run, with stable field names and null-safe parsing.
| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| 🔬 Bioinformaticians | Inventory available ontologies for annotation |
| 🎓 Curators | Pick the right vocabulary for a dataset |
| 🤖 Knowledge graphs | Seed semantic mappings |
| 📊 Standards bodies | Track ontology versioning over time |
📋 What the EBI Ontology Lookup Service Scraper does
- Calls the public EBI Ontology Lookup Service v4 endpoint with the parameters you supply.
- Parses the response and flattens each record into a single dataset row.
- Casts numeric fields to numbers where applicable for clean spreadsheet imports.
- Surfaces rate-limit or upstream errors as a single-row
errorrecord instead of crashing. - Exports to every Apify dataset format supported in the UI.
💡 Why it matters. The raw EBI Ontology Lookup Service v4 response is great for API consumers but awkward for spreadsheets and BI tools. This actor normalizes the shape so the data drops straight into pandas, BigQuery, or a Google Sheet.
📊 Data fields
Each record includes: description, homepage, namespace, numberOfProperties, numberOfTerms, ontologyId, results, scrapedAt, title, version. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.
⚠️ Good to Know. This actor calls the public EBI Ontology Lookup Service v4 endpoint with no authentication required. Upstream rate limits apply; if the source returns a limit notice, you will see it as a single
errorrecord in your dataset.
🚀 How to use
- Click Try for free.
- Fill in the input (or leave defaults).
- Click Start.
- Within seconds, the dataset is ready for download or integration.
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