RateMyProfessors Scraper

Extract professor ratings, student reviews, difficulty scores, and department rankings from RateMyProfessors. Built on spider-browser .

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target
ratemyprofessors.com: success rate
99.9%: latency
~4ms

Quick start

Extract data in minutes.

ratemyprofessors-scraper.ts

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://www.ratemyprofessors.com/search/professors?q=computer+science");
await page.content(8000);

const data = await page.evaluate(`(() => {
  const professors = [];
  document.querySelectorAll("a[href*='/professor/']").forEach(el => {
    const name = el.querySelector("h2, h3")?.textContent?.trim();
    const department = el.querySelector("[class*='epartment']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const school = el.querySelector("[class*='chool']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const rating = el.querySelector("[class*='ating']")?.textContent?.trim();
    const feedback = el.querySelector("[class*='eedback']")?.textContent?.trim();
    if (name) professors.push({ name, department, school, rating, feedback });
  });
  return JSON.stringify({ total: professors.length, professors: professors.slice(0, 15) });
})()`);

console.log(JSON.parse(data));
await spider.close();

ready to run · spider-browser · TypeScript

Fetch API

One endpoint for ratemyprofessors.com.

Structured JSON from ratemyprofessors.com with a single POST. AI-resolved selectors, cached on the first call.

POST /fetch/ratemyprofessors.com/

Professor nameDepartmentOverall ratingDifficultyWould take againUniversity

Try it Fetch docs

cURL

curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ratemyprofessors.com/ \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"return_format": "json"}'

Python

import requests

resp = requests.post(
    "https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ratemyprofessors.com/",
    headers={
        "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
        "Content-Type": "application/json",
    },
    json={"return_format": "json"},
)
print(resp.json())

Node.js

const resp = await fetch("https://api.spider.cloud/fetch/ratemyprofessors.com/", {
  method: "POST",
  headers: {
    "Authorization": "Bearer YOUR_API_KEY",
    "Content-Type": "application/json",
  },
  body: JSON.stringify({ return_format: "json" }),
});
const data = await resp.json();
console.log(data);

Extraction