🔬 UKRI Gateway to Research Scraper

🚀 Export UK Research and Innovation grants in seconds. Filter projects, funders, abstracts, and budgets with a single keyword query. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

The UKRI Gateway to Research Scraper queries the UK Research and Innovation public Gateway to Research API and returns 17 fields per record, covering grant reference, title, abstract, technical summary, funder, budget in pounds, start and end dates, identifier mappings, and publication counts. UKRI consolidates funding from the seven UK research councils, Innovate UK, and Research England under one taxonomy.

The catalog spans every funded project across EPSRC, BBSRC, AHRC, ESRC, MRC, NERC, STFC, plus Innovate UK and Research England. Both basic research grants and applied innovation awards appear in the same feed. This Actor returns the API payload as clean JSON, with pagination handled and millisecond timestamps converted to ISO 8601 for downstream use.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Research office managers, UK research strategists, technology transfer offices, science journalists, policy analysts, scientometrics teams, partnership scouts	Grant landscape research, partner discovery, funder benchmarking, sector spend analysis, science of science studies, science journalism

📋 What the UKRI Gateway to Research Scraper does

A flexible query workflow in a single run:

• 🔍 Free-text search. Match any term across project titles, abstracts, and organisations, like quantum, climate, or gene therapy.
• 🏛️ Funder breakdown. Each project tagged with the awarding body (EPSRC, BBSRC, ESRC, etc.).
• 💷 GBP budgets. Total project value in pounds, where disclosed.
• 📅 Date range. ISO 8601 start and end dates per grant.
• 🏷️ Identifier mapping. RCUK and external identifiers as parallel arrays.

Each record includes the project ID, grant reference, public URL, title, status, grant category, abstract text, potential impact text, technical summary, funder name and ID, value in pounds, start and end dates, identifier types and values, publication count, output flag, and scrape timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: the UK spends over £8 billion per year through UKRI. Gateway to Research is the canonical public record of who got funded, for what, and on what timeline. Building your own pipeline means handling the legacy JSON shape, pagination, and identifier normalisation. This Actor returns a flat, query-ready table on every run.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: abstractText, endDate, funderId, funderName, grantCategory, grantReference, hasOutput, id, identifierTypes, identifierValues, potentialImpactText, publicationsCount, scrapedAt, startDate, status, technicalSummary, title, url, valuePounds. All 19 field names come from a real production run, 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 UKRI Gateway to Research Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Type a keyword (or leave default) and 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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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by UKRI, Gateway to Research, or any UK government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open data published under the Open Government Licence is collected.

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