ORCID Scraper - Researcher Profiles & iDs

Search ORCID - the registry of 20M+ researcher identities - or resolve ORCID iDs to public profiles: name, other names, institutions, country, biography, keywords, researcher URLs, external IDs and public email where the researcher has shared it. For academic lead-gen, recruiting and research-network mapping. No key, no browser.

What you get per researcher

Field	Meaning
orcidId / orcidUrl	The ORCID iD and profile link
givenNames / familyName / creditName / otherNames	Names
institutions	Affiliated organisations
country / biography / keywords	Location, bio and research keywords (full profile)
researcherUrls / externalIds	Personal/lab links and other IDs (Scopus, ResearcherID...)
emails	Public email, where the researcher made it public

Input

{ "searchQueries": ["keyword:genomics"], "fullProfile": true, "maxItemsPerQuery": 100 }

• Search queries - plain text or field syntax: family-name:Smith, affiliation-org-name:MIT, keyword:genomics. ORCID iDs - exact lookups (always full profile).
• Full profile for search results - also fetch each researcher's biography/keywords/URLs/country (one extra request each; off by default for fast name/institution results).
• Import from a file (queries and iDs auto-detected) and Output fields work as on our other actors.

Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.

Reliability

Reads the public ORCID API - keyless, no anti-bot, paginated. A search that returns nothing bills $0.

Honest limits

• Only public data. ORCID profiles are researcher-controlled; email, biography and even names are shown only when the researcher set them public - many leave fields private, so a null is the researcher's privacy choice, not a scraping gap.
• Search results carry names + institutions; biography/keywords/URLs/country fill on an iD lookup or when Full profile is on.
• This is identity/profile data, not publications - for a researcher's papers use our Crossref, OpenAlex or PubMed scrapers with their ORCID iD.

Pricing

$0.002 per researcher on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only researchers actually saved are billed; an empty search costs nothing.

Output views

• Researchers - ORCID iD, names, institutions, country, keywords, profile link.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can build a list of researchers at an institution, find experts by keyword, or resolve an ORCID iD to a profile in one call. Pairs with our Crossref, OpenAlex and PubMed scrapers.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
• Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.