📚 Rate My Professors Scraper

🚀 Collect professor ratings, reviews, and school data from RateMyProfessors.com in minutes. Search by professor name, school, or direct URL. Export ratings, difficulty, reviews, and department info. No coding, no API keys.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23 · 📊 20+ fields per professor · 🔍 Professor + school search · ⭐ Ratings + reviews · 🚫 No auth required

The Rate My Professors Scraper collects professor and school data from RateMyProfessors.com, returning 20+ fields per record: professor name, overall quality rating, difficulty level, number of ratings, department, school name, individual reviews with text, class, grade, and tags. Runs support up to 1,000,000 records on a paid plan.

The Actor supports three input modes: direct RateMyProfessors URL, professor name search (optionally scoped to a school), and school search. Results include both aggregate professor metrics and individual student reviews.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Students, academic researchers, educational institutions, ed-tech platforms, data journalists, curriculum analysts	Course selection, teaching quality analysis, department benchmarking, academic research, institutional assessment

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📋 What the Rate My Professors Scraper does

Three input modes:

• 🔗 URL mode. Paste a direct RateMyProfessors professor or school page URL.
• 👨‍🏫 Professor search. Search by professor name, optionally scoped to a specific school.
• 🏫 School search. Search for schools by name to get school-level data.

Each professor record includes name, overall quality rating, difficulty level, would-take-again percentage, number of ratings, department, school name, individual reviews with text, class name, grade received, attendance required flag, and quality/difficulty tags.

💡 Why it matters: manually browsing RateMyProfessors for course decisions or teaching-quality research means clicking through profiles one by one. This Actor exports structured academic data at scale, ready for analysis, dashboards, or ed-tech integrations.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Max results. Free: up to 100. Paid: up to 1,000,000.
startUrl	string	""	Direct RateMyProfessors URL. Use this or search fields, not both.
professorSearchQuery	string	""	Professor name to search for.
professorSchoolQuery	string	""	Optional school name to scope professor search.
schoolSearchQuery	string	""	School name to search for school-level data.

Example: search for a professor at a specific school.

{
    "professorSearchQuery": "Smith",
    "professorSchoolQuery": "MIT",
    "maxItems": 50
}

Example: scrape a specific professor page.

{
    "startUrl": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/12345",
    "maxItems": 100
}

⚠️ Good to Know: when searching by professor name without a school filter, results may include professors from multiple institutions with the same name. Adding professorSchoolQuery narrows results to a single school.

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📊 Output

Each record contains 20+ fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
👨‍🏫 professorName	string	"John Smith"
🏫 schoolName	string	"MIT"
📂 department	string	"Computer Science"
⭐ overallRating	number	4.2
📊 difficultyLevel	number	3.5
🔢 numberOfRatings	number	87
🔄 wouldTakeAgain	number	85
📝 reviewText	string	"Great lecturer, clear explanations."
📚 className	string	"CS 101"
🏆 gradeReceived	string	"A"
✅ attendanceRequired	boolean	true
🏷️ tags	array	["Inspirational", "Clear grading"]
📅 reviewDate	string	"2026-01-15"
🔗 professorUrl	string	"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/12345"
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-04-16T00:00:00.000Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
👨‍🏫	Professor and school search. Both individual and institutional data in one Actor.
⭐	Full rating data. Overall quality, difficulty, would-take-again, and individual reviews.
📝	Review details. Text, class name, grade received, attendance, and tags per review.
🏫	School scoping. Filter professor search by school name.
📊	Aggregate and individual data. Both summary metrics and per-review breakdowns.
⚡	Scalable. From single-professor lookups to full department or school sweeps.
🚫	No authentication. No RateMyProfessors API key needed.

📊 RateMyProfessors has over 19 million student ratings across 6,000+ schools. Structured access to this data powers every course-selection, teaching-quality, and institutional-analysis workflow.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Rate My Professors Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Any RMP professor/school	Live per run	name, school, URL	⚡ 2 min
Manual RMP browsing	Free	One profile at a time	Manual	RMP UI	🕒 Hours per department
RMP API (unofficial)	Free, rate-limited	GraphQL	Rate-limited	Many	⏳ Hours of dev work

Pick this Actor when you want RateMyProfessors data on demand, without writing GraphQL queries or browsing profiles one by one.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Rate My Professors Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Search by professor name (optionally with school), or paste a URL. Set maxItems.
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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💼 Business use cases

🎓 Students & Advisors Compare professors before course registration Find the highest-rated instructors by department Check difficulty levels and grade distributions Read recent reviews for up-to-date feedback	📊 Academic Researchers Study teaching quality across departments Analyze student sentiment by discipline Build longitudinal datasets of professor ratings Compare institutional teaching quality
🏫 Educational Institutions Benchmark departments against peer schools Identify teaching-quality trends over time Support faculty development with data Monitor institutional reputation metrics	💻 Ed-Tech Platforms Enrich course recommendation engines with ratings Build professor comparison features Add teaching-quality signals to enrollment tools Power student decision-support dashboards

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔌 Automating Rate My Professors Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Semester-start pulls give students fresh data for course registration.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Rate My Professors Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe academic data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by RateMyProfessors or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available rating and review data is collected.