Google Dataset Search Scraper

Extracts dataset titles, repositories, publishers, descriptions, formats, licenses, update dates, and dataset links from Google Dataset Search.

What this Actor collects

The Actor converts Google Dataset Search results into one clean JSON record per dataset, including repository and publisher, description, formats, license, temporal coverage, update date, access links, and search provenance when available.

• Uses the input limits and filters below to control the crawl.
• Stores source-backed fields defined by the 48-field dataset schema.
• Omits optional fields when the source does not expose a value instead of writing nulls or fabricated placeholders.

Use cases

• Public dataset discovery
• Repository, format, and license research
• Data-catalog and research-workflow enrichment

Input

Provide input in JSON. Fields marked required must be supplied. The Default / example column shows a schema default when one exists; otherwise it shows a documented prefill or fixture value.

Field	Type	Required	Default / example	Description
query	string	Yes	"climate change"	The search term for datasets (e.g. 'climate change', 'covid', 'machine learning')
maxItems	integer	No	10	Maximum number of dataset results to retrieve
hl	string	No	"en"	Language code for the interface (e.g. 'en', 'es', 'de')
maxRequestRetries	integer	No	3	Retries for failed, blocked, or malformed source responses.
requestTimeoutSecs	integer	No	30	Per-request timeout in seconds.
proxyConfiguration	object	No	{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["GOOGLE_SERP"]}	Proxy settings for the scraper.

Example input

{
  "query": "climate change",
  "maxItems": 3,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "GOOGLE_SERP"
    ]
  },
  "hl": "en",
  "maxRequestRetries": 3,
  "requestTimeoutSecs": 30
}

Output

The default dataset contains one item per dataset result. The following are the most useful fields; license, format, coverage, size, and access metadata appear only when provided by the indexed repository.

Field	Type	Description
position	integer	Position
title	string	Dataset Title
creator	string	Creator
repositoryName	string	Repository Name
primaryFormat	string	Primary Format
updatedDate	string	Updated Date
datasetUrl	string	Dataset URL
searchQuery	string	Search Query
scrapedAt	string	Scraped At
type	string	Type
description	string	Description
source	string	Source
page	integer	Source Page
documentId	string	Google Document ID
summary	string	Summary
datasetDomain	string	Dataset Domain

Example dataset item

This compact example is taken from local Actor storage. Long text and nested collections are shortened for documentation only.

{
  "position": 1,
  "title": "Climate Change Dataset",
  "creator": "Bhadra Mohit",
  "repositoryName": "Kaggle",
  "primaryFormat": "zip",
  "updatedDate": "Oct 21, 2024",
  "datasetUrl": "https://www.kaggle.com/datasets/bhadramohit/climate-change-dataset",
  "searchQuery": "climate change",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-23T19:48:27.830Z",
  "type": "dataset",
  "description": "Dataset Title: Global Climate Change Indicators: A Comprehensive Dataset (2000-2024) Subtitle: Tracking Temperature, Emissions, Sea Level Rise, and Environmental Trends Across Cou…",
  "source": "google-dataset-search-embedded-data"
}

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