ORCID Scraper
Spider read orcid.org in 262 ms without a browser and returned 76 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "General guidelines" and "Related links".
“Chancellor Award””Second Place Abstract Award Winner””University Gold Medal””Best conference paper prize”Paid or gratis membership of a society or association (i.e. does not include honorary memberships and fellowships as defined under Invited Position and Distinctions)Member of an association or society“Life member””Associate Member”Significant donations of time, money, or other resources to an organization or community. Includes volunteer work such as society officer positions, agricultural extension work, other voluntary workStandards body, expert panel, study group, conference organizer, conference panel chair, committee work, project work, volunteer society officer, elected board position“Project group member””Community Manager””National Advisory Committee member”Contributions to the growth, development, commissioning, and publication of a journal. May be paid or unpaidEditorial board, editorial team member, guest editor“Editorial board member” “Associate editor”# General guidelines* Each affiliation should have a start date, and if appropriate, an end date – this makes it easier to calculate which affiliations are current.* End dates should be added for any researchers that have resigned, retired or that are now deceased.* End dates do not have to be added for any researcher that is on a secondment placement or on sabbatical leave.* Each affiliation should have an Organization ID, such as a ROR ID* We recommend that the parent organization (and not the division or department) organization is used within the affiliation. Department information can be added in a separate field.* Organization IDs are mandatory when adding using the ORCID API, but optional when adding manually using the user interface – it is added for the researcher selects their organization from a drop down.# Related links* Blog post announcing new affiliation types* Working with organization identifiersThe same call, in code.
The capture above came back as markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on orcid.org.
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097");
// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();
console.log(data);
await spider.close();import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";
const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});
await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1825-0097");
await page.content(10000);
const data = await page.extractFields({
name: "#given-names, .given-names",
affiliation: "[id='affiliations'] .affiliation-name",
works: "[id='works'] .work-title",
employment: "[id='employment'] .affiliation-name",
education: "[id='education'] .affiliation-name",
keywords: "[id='keywords'] .keyword",
});
console.log(data);
await spider.close();Ready for volume? Get an API key →
Fields you can pull.
Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same
call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.
What orcid.org costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000261 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.
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