🏅 Nobel Prize Laureates Scraper

🚀 Export every Nobel Prize laureate in seconds. Pull the full roster of 1,000+ laureates from the official Nobel Prize API, complete with category, award year, motivation, prize share, and biography.

The Nobel Prize Laureates Scraper turns the official Nobel Prize API into a clean, structured feed of award winners. Search by name, filter by category and year, sweep an entire decade with a year range, or browse the complete list. Every record carries the laureate identity, the prize that made them famous, and the full biography behind it.

Coverage spans all six categories (Chemistry, Economic Sciences, Literature, Peace, Physics, and Physiology or Medicine) for every year prizes were awarded since 1901. Each laureate includes their award motivation, prize share, prize amount, awarding institution, birth and death details, and links to their official Nobel page, Wikipedia, and Wikidata entries.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Researchers and academics	Building datasets on scientific and cultural achievement
Journalists and educators	Fact checking, timelines, and classroom material
Data scientists and analysts	Trend analysis across categories, countries, and decades
Trivia and content creators	Quiz banks, articles, and reference pages
Developers and app builders	Powering apps with structured laureate data

📋 What the Nobel Prize Laureates Scraper does

This Actor connects to the official Nobel Prize API and returns structured laureate records. It auto detects the right mode from your input:

• Name search finds laureates whose full, given, or family name matches your text.
• Category and year narrows to one category in one year.
• Year range sweeps every laureate awarded between two years.
• Browse all walks the complete list of 1,018 laureates when no filter is set.

For each laureate it returns identity fields, a flattened headline prize, birth and death biography, official links, and a full array of every prize that person won (some laureates won more than once).

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: awardYear, birthCountry, category, fullName, gender, motivation, nobelUrl, results, scrapedAt. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. Sign up for a free Apify account using this link.
2. Open the Nobel Prize Laureates Scraper from your Apify console.
3. Choose a mode. Enter a name, or pick a category and year, or set a year range, or leave everything empty to browse all.
4. Set Max Items and click Start.
5. When the run finishes, download your results or pull them from the dataset endpoint into your own tools.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the Nobel Foundation or NobelPrize.org. Only publicly available data from the official Nobel Prize API is collected.

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