🐉 Open5e SRD 5.1 Scraper

🚀 Export the SRD 5.1 tabletop RPG dataset in seconds. Pull 3,200+ monsters, 1,400+ spells, 1,600+ magic items, plus weapons, armor, classes, races, feats, backgrounds, conditions, and rules sections. No login, no API key, no manual JSON wrangling.

The Open5e SRD Scraper exports the open-licensed System Reference Document 5.1 dataset and returns up to 37 fields per record, including monster stat blocks, spell tables, magic item rarity, class progression, ability scores, saving throws, actions, legendary actions, and source attribution. The underlying dataset is curated by the Open5e community and includes content from the official SRD plus open-licensed expansions such as Tome of Beasts, Creature Codex, Vault of Magic, and Deep Magic.

Coverage spans 11 resource families: 3,207 monsters, 1,435 spells, 1,618 magic items, 68 weapons, 23 armor sets, 12 classes, 20 races, 74 feats, 42 backgrounds, 15 conditions, and 45 rules sections. Records ship with license URLs so you stay compliant with the OGL and CC-BY terms of each contributing book.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
D&D tool builders, VTT (virtual tabletop) developers, game designers, RPG content creators, fan-site indexers, hobby DMs, encounter-balance app authors	Encounter builders, character sheet apps, spellbook UIs, monster lookups, rules wikis, game-design references, prompt seeds for AI dungeon masters

📋 What the Open5e SRD Scraper does

Eleven resource families in a single Actor:

• 🐉 Monsters. Full stat blocks: HP, AC, six ability scores, saves, skills, senses, languages, damage modifiers, actions, legendary actions.
• 🪄 Spells. Level, school, casting time, range, components, duration, classes that can cast it, higher-level scaling.
• 🗡️ Magic items. Type, rarity, attunement requirement, description.
• ⚔️ Weapons / Armor. Damage dice, properties, AC formulas, stealth disadvantage, cost.
• 🧙 Classes / Races. Hit dice, proficiencies, ASIs, traits, subraces.
• 🎯 Feats / Backgrounds / Conditions. Prerequisites, effects, proficiencies, descriptions.
• 📜 Rules sections. Reference chapters indexed by slug.

Each record includes the source book title and license URL for redistribution compliance.

💡 Why it matters: building a 5e companion app means stitching together a dozen JSON schemas and license terms. Open5e already did the curation; this Actor turns the live dataset into one CSV/JSON pull that your build pipeline can refresh on every release.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: abilityScores, actions, alignment, armorCategory, armorClass, castingTime, challengeRating, classes, components, conditionImmunities, damageDice, damageImmunities, damageResistances, description, duration, hitPoints, languages, legendaryActions, level, license, name, range, rarity, requiresAttunement, resourceType, school, scrapedAt, senses, size, skills, slug, sourceDocument, sourceUrl, specialAbilities, speed, spellLevel, type, weaponCategory. 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. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Open5e SRD Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a resource type, optionally add a query, CR, spell level, or source document.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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