🧬 Orphanet Rare Diseases Scraper

🚀 Pull structured rare-disease records in seconds. Turn Orphanet ORPHAcodes into clean rows with names, synonyms, definitions, and cross-references to ICD-10, ICD-11, OMIM, UMLS, MeSH, MedDRA, and MONDO.

Orphanet is the reference portal for rare diseases and orphan drugs, and Orphadata is its open data service. This Actor reads the keyless Orphadata cross-referencing API and returns one tidy record per rare disease, including every terminology mapping that Orphanet publishes for that code.

Coverage spans the full Orphanet nomenclature: more than 11,400 ORPHAcodes covering disorders, groups of disorders, and subtypes. Each record carries the preferred term, known synonyms, a clinical definition where available, the disorder group and typology, the last update date, and the cross-references that let you join Orphanet data to ICD-10, ICD-11, OMIM, UMLS, MeSH, MedDRA, and MONDO.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Bioinformaticians and data scientists	Building rare-disease terminology maps
Health-tech and EHR teams	Enriching patient records with standard codes
Pharma and clinical research groups	Orphan-drug and indication research
Medical ontology and knowledge-graph builders	Linking ORPHAcodes across vocabularies

📋 What the Orphanet Rare Diseases Scraper does

• Reads single ORPHAcodes you supply, or pulls the latest codes straight from the Orphadata list endpoint.
• Returns the preferred term, synonyms, disorder group, typology, and clinical definition.
• Extracts cross-references to ICD-10, ICD-11, OMIM, UMLS, MeSH, MedDRA, and MONDO.
• Keeps the full raw cross-reference list with mapping relations and ICD browser links.
• Works in nine languages for preferred terms, synonyms, and definitions.

🚀 How to use

1. Sign up for a free Apify account with our referral link.
2. Open the Orphanet Rare Diseases Scraper.
3. Enter ORPHAcodes, or leave the list empty to pull records automatically.
4. Pick a language and set how many records you want.
5. Run the Actor and collect your dataset.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Orphanet or Orphadata. Only publicly available data collected.

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