THE Impact Rankings Scraper
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THE Impact Rankings Scraper
Scrapes the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings by edition year and returns each university as a flat row with its overall rank, total score, and all 17 individual SDG scores.
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THE Impact Rankings Scraper
Scrape the full Times Higher Education Impact Rankings for any edition year, up to a million universities per run. Each university row includes its overall rank, total score, and all 17 SDG breakdown scores. Export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML.
The Times Higher Education Impact Rankings measure how universities worldwide perform against the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Getting this data manually means clicking through paginated tables for hundreds of institutions, year by year. This Actor reads the public rankings feed directly for any edition from 2019 to 2025 and returns every university in one flat dataset.
| Who uses it | What they scrape Times Higher Education Impact Rankings for |
|---|---|
| University strategy teams | Benchmark their institution's SDG performance against peer universities globally. |
| Higher education researchers | Analyze year-over-year trends in sustainability performance across the sector. |
| Sustainability consultants | Identify top-performing universities for case studies and partnership opportunities. |
| Rankings analysts | Build historical datasets of Impact Rankings for longitudinal studies. |
What it does
This Actor collects university rankings from the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings by edition year and returns each institution as a single row with its overall rank, total score, and individual SDG scores.
- 📅 Multi-year support: Choose any edition from 2019 through 2025, or run multiple years in sequence.
- 🔢 Scalable collection: Set a maximum from 1 to 1,000,000 universities per run to control dataset size.
- 📊 Complete SDG breakdown: Every row includes the overall score plus all 17 individual Sustainable Development Goal scores.
- 📁 Flexible export: Download results as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML for direct use in your analysis tools.
Results export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML, or straight from the API.
What you can do with Times Higher Education Impact Rankings data
📈 Track sustainability performance trends.
A university strategy office scrapes the 2019 through 2025 editions to measure their institution's progress on SDG 13 (Climate Action) against regional competitors.
🌍 Map global SDG leadership.
A higher education researcher collects the full 2025 rankings to identify which countries dominate specific Sustainable Development Goals and publishes a sector report.
🏫 Build a peer benchmarking dashboard.
A rankings analyst scrapes the latest edition for a curated list of 200 peer institutions and loads the data into a Tableau dashboard for their university's leadership team.
📝 Source data for sustainability consulting.
A consultant scrapes multiple years of Impact Rankings to find universities that consistently score high on SDG 4 (Quality Education) for a client engagement.
Why choose this scraper
| What you get | |
|---|---|
| Overall rank and total score | The university's position in the global Impact Rankings and its aggregate score. |
| All 17 SDG scores | Individual performance scores for each UN Sustainable Development Goal, from no poverty to partnerships. |
| Multi-year history | Access rankings from 2019 to the latest 2025 edition for trend analysis. |
| Flat structured output | One row per university, ready for pivot tables, databases, or visualization tools. |
How it compares
No other Store actor targets Times Higher Education Impact Rankings the same way, so the honest comparison is with the alternatives teams actually weigh.
| THE Impact Rankings Scraper | Build it in-house | By hand | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Setup | Run it now, zero config | Days of engineering | None, but hours per pull |
| When Times Higher Education Impact Rankings changes | Maintained for you | You fix it | You re-learn the page |
| Proxies, retries, anti-bot | Built in | Your problem | Browser only |
| Output | Fixed JSON schema, CSV/Excel export | Whatever you build | Copy-paste |
| Cost | Pay per result | Engineering time | Analyst hours |
Configure the run
Drive the Actor by selecting an edition year and a maximum number of universities to collect, and only matching rows reach your dataset. The Input tab lists every parameter.
A first run with the defaults:
A larger pull:
Pricing
Pay-per-result: $0.021 per result collected. You pay only for the results written to your dataset.
| Results collected | Approximate cost |
|---|---|
| 100 results | $2.10 |
| 1,000 results | $21.00 |
| 10,000 results | $210.00 |
New Apify accounts start with $5 in free credit.
Free users
Free-plan runs return up to 10 results as a preview. Upgrade your Apify plan to collect up to 1,000,000 results per run.
Run it
- Create a free Apify account with $5 in credit.
- Open the THE Impact Rankings Scraper.
- Set your inputs and any filters, then click Start.
- Export the results as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML from the Dataset tab.
Run it programmatically through the Apify API (run-sync-get-dataset-items) or the ApifyClient for JavaScript and Python.
Use with AI agents (MCP)
Give an AI agent live access to Times Higher Education Impact Rankings through the Model Context Protocol. Add the Actor to Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client:
Then prompt it in plain language to run the scraper and read back the results.
Troubleshooting
Why am I getting fewer results than expected?
Check the maxItems setting. If it is lower than the total number of ranked universities for that year, the Actor stops once it reaches your limit. Increase maxItems to collect more.
The run completed but some SDG score columns are empty.
Not every university submits data for all 17 SDGs. Empty or null values in individual SDG columns mean the institution did not provide evidence for that goal in that edition year.
I selected a year but the run returned no data.
Confirm the year is spelled correctly and matches one of the available editions (2019 through 2025). If the year is correct, the rankings page structure may have changed. Try a different year to isolate the issue.
The Actor is running slowly on a large maxItems value.
The Actor respects the source website by pacing requests. A full scrape of 2,000 universities may take several minutes. This is normal behavior to avoid being blocked.
Can I get the ranking for a specific SDG only?
The Actor returns the full dataset with all SDGs. To focus on one goal, export the full dataset and sort or filter by that SDG's score column in Excel, Google Sheets, or your analysis tool.
FAQ
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the Times Higher Education Impact Rankings? | They are a global ranking that assesses universities against the United Nations' 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), covering areas like poverty, health, education, and climate action. |
| Which years can I scrape? | The Actor supports all available editions from 2019 through 2025. Select the year you need from the dropdown input. |
| How many universities can I collect in one run? | You set the limit with the maxItems field, from 1 up to 1,000,000. The full ranking typically includes around 1,500 to 2,000 institutions, so a single run can capture the complete list. |
| Does the data include individual SDG scores? | Yes. Each row includes the overall rank and total score, plus the score for each of the 17 individual Sustainable Development Goals. |
| What output formats are available? | You can export your dataset as CSV, JSON, Excel, or XML directly from the Apify platform. |
| Do I need a Times Higher Education subscription? | No. The Actor reads the publicly available rankings pages. No login, API key, or subscription is required. |
| Can I filter by country or region? | The Actor collects the full global ranking. You can filter by country or region after export using your own analysis tools, as the location data is included in each row. |
| How often is the ranking updated? | Times Higher Education publishes a new Impact Rankings edition once per year, typically around mid-year. Run the Actor with the new year value once it is released. |
| Can I schedule this Actor to run automatically? | Yes. Apify supports scheduled runs. You can set this Actor to run monthly or annually to capture any updates or new editions. |
| What is the difference between the Impact Rankings and the World University Rankings? | The Impact Rankings measure performance against the UN SDGs. The World University Rankings use different metrics focused on teaching, research, and citations. This Actor scrapes only the Impact Rankings. |
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⚠️ Disclaimer. This Actor is unofficial and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Times Higher Education. It collects only publicly available data. You are responsible for using the collected data in compliance with the source's terms of service and applicable data-protection laws, including GDPR, CCPA, and PIPL. Do not use it to collect personal data unlawfully.
