📚 Rate My Professors Scraper

🚀 Collect professor ratings, reviews, and school data from RateMyProfessors.com in minutes. Provide direct URL. Export ratings, difficulty, reviews, and department info. No coding, no API keys.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-24 · 📊 20+ fields per professor · ⭐ Ratings + reviews · 🚫 No auth required

The Rate My Professors Scraper collects professor and school data from RateMyProfessors.com, returning 20+ fields per record: professor name, overall quality rating, difficulty level, number of ratings, department, school name, individual reviews with text, class, grade, and tags. Runs support up to 1,000,000 records on a paid plan.

The Actor supports Direct link: direct RateMyProfessors URL. Results include both aggregate professor metrics and individual student reviews.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Students, academic researchers, educational institutions, ed-tech platforms, data journalists, curriculum analysts	Course selection, teaching quality analysis, department benchmarking, academic research, institutional assessment

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📋 What the Rate My Professors Scraper does

Input mode:

• 🔗 URL mode. Paste a direct RateMyProfessors professor or school page URL. You can provide url for either professor(e.g., https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/12345) or school page (e.g., https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/school/938) or search results page (e.g., https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/search/professors/?q=john , https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/search/schools?q=mit, https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/search/professors/580?q=john).

Each professor record includes name, overall quality rating, difficulty level, would-take-again percentage, number of ratings, department, school name, individual reviews with text, class name, grade received, attendance required flag, and quality/difficulty tags.

💡 Why it matters: manually browsing RateMyProfessors for course decisions or teaching-quality research means clicking through profiles one by one. This Actor exports structured academic data at scale, ready for analysis, dashboards, or ed-tech integrations.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Max results. Free: up to 100. Paid: up to 1,000,000.
startUrl	string	""	Direct RateMyProfessors URL.

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📊 Output

Each record contains 20+ fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Professor Schema

Field	Type	Example
👨‍🏫 professor_name	string	"Johnny Pang"
🆔 professor_id	string	"440465"
🏫 school_name	string	"University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)"
🆔 school_id	string	"1075"
📂 department	string	"Chemistry"
⭐ overall_quality_rating	string	"3.5"
🔢 number_of_ratings	number	8
🔄 would_take_again_percentage	string	"0%"
📊 level_of_difficulty	string	"4.0"
🏷️ Type	string	"Professor"
📝 description	string	""
📈 rating_distribution	array	[{"rating": "5", "label": "Awesome", "count": "3"}]
🤝 similar_professors	array	[{"professor_name": "Christina Bauer", "rating": "4.8"}]
💬 reviews	array	[{"course": "CHEM14BL", "comment": "Do not take..."}]
🔗 professor_url	string	"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/440465"
🔗 school_url	string	"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/school/1075"
🕒 scraped_timestamp	string	"2026-05-24-10:00:00"

🏫 School Schema

Field	Type	Example
🏫 school_name	string	"University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)"
🆔 school_id	string	"1075"
🔗 school_url	string	"https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/school/1075"
⭐ overall_quality_rating	string	"4.1"
🔢 number_of_ratings	number	197
🏷️ Type	string	"School"
💬 reviews	array	[{"date": "Apr 30th, 2026", "overallRating": "4.5", "categoryRatings": [{"category": "Reputation", "rating": 5}], "comment": "Incredible school!"}]
🕒 scraped_timestamp	string	"2026-05-24-10:00:00"

📦 Sample record (Professor)

{
  "professor_name": "John Dittmann",
  "school_name": "The University of Tennessee Knoxville",
  "school_id": "1385",
  "professor_id": "2220671",
  "overall_quality_rating": "4.5",
  "number_of_ratings": "8",
  "would_take_again_percentage": "88%",
  "level_of_difficulty": "2.6",
  "rating_distribution": [
    {"rating": "5", "label": "Awesome", "count": "7"},
    {"rating": "4", "label": "Great", "count": "0"},
    {"rating": "3", "label": "Good", "count": "0"},
    {"rating": "2", "label": "OK", "count": "0"},
    {"rating": "1", "label": "Awful", "count": "1"}
  ],
  "similar_professors": [
    {"professor_name": "Adam Spannbauer", "professor_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/2775421", "professor_id": "2775421", "rating": "5.00"},
    {"professor_name": "Ben Skipper", "professor_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/3122392", "professor_id": "3122392", "rating": "5.00"},
    {"professor_name": "Christopher Hickey", "professor_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/3156825", "professor_id": "3156825", "rating": "5.00"}
  ],
  "reviews": [
    {
      "course": "SCM460",
      "date": "Aug 26th, 2025",
      "qualityRating": 5,
      "difficultyRating": 2,
      "forCredit": "No",
      "attendance": "mandatory",
      "wouldTakeAgain": 1,
      "grade": "A",
      "comment": "He is just strict about attendance but everything else is good if you focus; it's an easy A",
      "tags": ["Amazing lectures ", "Inspirational", "Respected"],
      "onlineClass": "No"
    }
  ],
  "professor_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/2220671",
  "Type": "Professor",
  "school_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/school/1385",
  "scraped_timestamp": "2026-05-24-14:53:11"
}

📦 Sample record (School)

{
  "school_name": "Paul Mitchell The School Sherman Oaks",
  "school_id": "18933",
  "school_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/school/18933",
  "overall_quality_rating": "4.0",
  "number_of_ratings": "1",
  "Type": "School",
  "reviews": [
    {
      "date": "Mar 1st, 2023",
      "comment": "Paul Mitchell the School Sherman’s oaks is a great school to learn cosmetology, barbering and esthetician. The location is alright and parking is good but there’s no food opportunities. The lunch area in the school is very small with two refrigerators and one microwave. The staff contributes to the schools aura.",
      "categoryRatings": [
        {
          "category": "Reputation",
          "rating": 5
        },
        {
          "category": "Location",
          "rating": 3
        },
        {
          "category": "Opportunities",
          "rating": 5
        },
        {
          "category": "Facilities",
          "rating": 3
        },
        {
          "category": "Internet",
          "rating": 3
        },
        {
          "category": "Food",
          "rating": 2
        },
        {
          "category": "Clubs",
          "rating": 5
        },
        {
          "category": "Social",
          "rating": 5
        },
        {
          "category": "Happiness",
          "rating": 5
        },
        {
          "category": "Safety",
          "rating": 4
        }
      ],
      "overallRating": "4.0"
    }
  ],
  "scraped_timestamp": "2026-05-24-14:02:48"
}

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
⭐	Full rating data. Overall quality, difficulty, would-take-again, and individual reviews.
📝	Review details. Text, class name, grade received, attendance, and tags per review.
⚡	Scalable. From single-professor lookups to full department or school sweeps.
🚫	No authentication. No RateMyProfessors API key needed.

📊 RateMyProfessors has over 19 million student ratings across 6,000+ schools. Structured access to this data powers every course-selection, teaching-quality, and institutional-analysis workflow.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Rate My Professors Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Any RMP professor/school	Live per run	name, school, URL	⚡ 2 min
Manual RMP browsing	Free	One profile at a time	Manual	RMP UI	🕒 Hours per department
RMP API (unofficial)	Free, rate-limited	GraphQL	Rate-limited	Many	⏳ Hours of dev work

Pick this Actor when you want RateMyProfessors data on demand, without writing GraphQL queries or browsing profiles one by one.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Rate My Professors Scraper(https://apify.com/smartspidering/rate-my-professors-schools-scraper).
3. 🎯 Set input. Paste a URL. 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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💼 Business use cases

🎓 Students & Advisors

• Compare professors before course registration
• Find the highest-rated instructors by department
• Check difficulty levels and grade distributions
• Read recent reviews for up-to-date feedback

📊 Academic Researchers

• Study teaching quality across departments
• Analyze student sentiment by discipline
• Build longitudinal datasets of professor ratings
• Compare institutional teaching quality

🏫 Educational Institutions

• Benchmark departments against peer schools
• Identify teaching-quality trends over time
• Support faculty development with data
• Monitor institutional reputation metrics

💻 Ed-Tech Platforms

• Enrich course recommendation engines with ratings
• Build professor comparison features
• Add teaching-quality signals to enrollment tools
• Power student decision-support dashboards

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia

• Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework
• Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots
• Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls
• Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping

🎨 Personal and creative

• Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches
• Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics
• Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters
• Hobbyist collections and personal trackers

🤝 Non-profit and civic

• Transparency reporting and accountability projects
• Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data
• Community-run databases for local issues
• Investigative journalism on public records

🧪 Experimentation

• Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data
• Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend
• Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora
• Test dashboard concepts with live input

💰 How much does it cost?

Apify gives you $5 in free monthly credits on the Apify Free plan, enough to test Rate My Professors Scraper and pull a real sample dataset. For ongoing usage:

Pay-Per-Event pricing means you only pay for what you actually use. Failed runs are never charged. See the Pricing tab on this Actor's page for exact event prices.

💡 Tips for using Rate My Professors Scraper

• Start with a small maxItems (3-10) to validate output format before running larger jobs.
• Use Apify Schedules to run Rate My Professors Scraper on a recurring basis and keep your dataset fresh.
• Export via Integrations: Apify connects to Google Sheets, Airbyte, Make, Zapier, and direct webhooks — pipe your data anywhere.
• Monitor with webhooks: trigger downstream workflows the moment a run finishes.
• Re-run failed items: if any individual records error out, re-run with their inputs only. Failed events are not charged.

⚖️ Is it legal to use Rate My Professors Scraper?

Yes. Rate My Professors Scraper only collects publicly available data. Web scraping public data has been confirmed as legal by US courts (see hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn) and is widely used for research, market analysis, and business intelligence.

However, you are responsible for:

• Respecting the source website's Terms of Service.
• Complying with GDPR, CCPA, and other applicable data-protection laws when personal data is involved.
• Not republishing copyrighted content without permission.

If you have specific compliance concerns, consult your legal team. See the Apify legal docs for more.

🔌 Automating Rate My Professors Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Semester-start pulls give students fresh data for course registration.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Rate My Professors Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe academic data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

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