University of Utah TLO Available Technologies Scraper

What does University of Utah TLO Available Technologies Scraper do?

This Actor scrapes the University of Utah Technology Licensing Office's public Available Technologies catalog — every licensable technology the university has disclosed for commercialization, including its docket ID, category, inventors, full technical description, and licensing contact info. Give it a listing URL, and it discovers every technology detail page (following pagination automatically) and extracts a clean, structured record from each one. Runs on Apify with full API access, scheduling, and integration support — no proxy or browser needed, since the source site is static HTML.

Why use this Actor?

University tech-transfer offices publish some of the earliest, least-competed licensable IP on the market — long before it shows up in patent databases or news coverage. This dataset is useful for:

• Technology scouts and patent brokers building a pipeline of licensable academic IP
• Corporate R&D teams monitoring university research in a specific field for partnership or licensing opportunities
• VCs and startup studios looking for spin-out-ready technology before it's publicly hyped

How to use University of Utah TLO Available Technologies Scraper

1. Click Try for free (or Start) on the Actor page
2. Leave the default Start URL (the full Available Technologies listing) or paste a specific listing URL, e.g. filtered by category
3. Set Max items to how many technologies you want (the Actor stops automatically once it hits this number, or your run's charge limit)
4. Click Start and download the results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML once the run finishes

Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	Listing page URL(s) to crawl — default is the full Available Technologies index
maxItems	integer	Maximum technologies to scrape (default 100)
delaySeconds	number	Polite delay before each request (default 1.0s)
concurrency	integer	Parallel detail-page fetches (default 5)

Output

{
  "technologyId": "U-8172",
  "technologyTitle": "A 3d Automated System For Accessible And Cost-effective Manufacturing With Generic Device Language And Fluid Simulation",
  "category": "Mechanical, Civil, & Environmental",
  "subcategory": null,
  "inventors": ["Bruce Gale", "BRADY GOENNER", "PIERRE-EMMANUEL GAILLARDON", "Greg Nordin"],
  "inventorLinks": ["https://www.mech.utah.edu/directory/faculty/bruce-gale/"],
  "briefSummary": "Innovative 3D system streamlines manufacturing, offering accessibility and cost-effectiveness through a generic device language and fluid simulation for design.",
  "problemStatement": "The emerging technology of microfluidic devices...",
  "technologyDescription": "A 3D automated microfluidic design system, adapted from mature electronic design tools...",
  "benefit": "o Simplifies the microfluidic design process for non-specialists. o Combines design, simulation, prototyping...",
  "contactName": "Jonathan Tyler",
  "contactEmail": "jonathan.tyler@utah.edu",
  "contactPhone": "801-587-0515",
  "detailUrl": "https://technologylicensing.utah.edu/available-technologies/U-8172"
}

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

Data table

Field	Description
technologyId	Docket ID (e.g. "U-8172")
technologyTitle	Technology title
category / subcategory	Classification tags
inventors / inventorLinks	Inventor names and faculty profile links, where available
briefSummary	Short summary, where available
problemStatement	Problem the technology addresses, where available
technologyDescription	Full technical description, where available
benefit	Listed benefits/advantages, where available
contactName / contactEmail / contactPhone	Licensing contact info
detailUrl	Canonical detail page URL

Not every listing has every field — the TLO uses a few different page layouts (e.g. some show "Stage of Development"/"IP" instead of "Brief Summary"/"Problem Statement"), so some fields will be null where the source page doesn't have that section.

How much does it cost to scrape University of Utah TLO's Available Technologies?

This Actor is billed pay-per-result at $3 per 1,000 technologies scraped. Since the source is static HTML (no proxy or browser rendering required), runs are fast and cheap to operate:

Results	Estimated cost
100	$0.30
500	$1.50
1,000	$3.00
5,000	$15.00

Tips

• Leave maxItems at a reasonable size for your use case — the full catalog is a few hundred technologies, so maxItems: 500 comfortably covers everything currently listed.
• Increase concurrency (up to 20) for faster runs if you're scraping the full catalog; the built-in delaySeconds per-request delay is preserved regardless, so this only affects how many requests run in parallel, not how politely each one is spaced.

FAQ, disclaimers, and support

This Actor only scrapes publicly published data (robots.txt places no restriction on this content) with no login or PII involved — inventor names are already published by the university on public faculty profile pages. Have a feature request or found a page layout it doesn't handle? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab.