🧬 Reactome Pathways Scraper

🚀 Export curated biology pathways in seconds. Pull the full set of top-level human pathways (29 entries), search 10+ result types per keyword, or look up any entity by stable ID with its summary and sub-event count.

Reactome is a free, open-source, peer-reviewed knowledgebase of biological pathways. This Actor turns its public ContentService into clean, structured records you can drop straight into a notebook, a spreadsheet, or a downstream pipeline. Point it at a species to list every top-level pathway, search by a gene or process keyword, or resolve a single stable identifier such as R-HSA-109581.

Coverage spans curated pathways, reactions, proteins, complexes, and sets. Each record carries the Reactome stable identifier, display name, species, schema class, disease flag, diagram availability, and a direct Pathway Browser link, so you always know exactly which entity you are looking at and where to view it.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Bioinformaticians and computational biologists	Building pathway reference tables for enrichment analysis
Data scientists in life sciences and pharma	Mapping genes and proteins to curated pathways
Researchers and graduate students	Pulling pathway summaries and sub-event counts for review
Knowledge engineers and database builders	Seeding internal catalogs with stable Reactome identifiers

📋 What the Reactome Pathways Scraper does

• Lists every top-level pathway for a chosen species (Homo sapiens returns 29 entries).
• Searches Reactome by keyword and returns matching pathways, reactions, proteins, complexes, and sets.
• Looks up a single entity by stable identifier and adds a plain-text summary plus a sub-event count.
• Strips embedded HTML from names and summaries so values are ready to use.
• Builds a direct Pathway Browser link for every record.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: displayName, isInDisease, results, schemaClass, scrapedAt, speciesName, stId, url. 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. Create a free Apify account using this sign-up link.
2. Open the Reactome Pathways Scraper in the Apify Console.
3. Choose a mode, set a species, type a search term, or paste a stable identifier.
4. Set how many records you want with the items limit.
5. Run the Actor and collect your structured pathway records.

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection.

⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with Reactome. Only publicly available data collected.

🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

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