RateMyProfessors Scraper
Spider read ratemyprofessors.com in 471 ms without a browser and returned 161 lines of clean markdown, including sections like "Keri Overall" and "Similar Professors".
EnglishTarrant County College (all)English ·Tarrant County College (all)Overall Quality Based on 60 ratings# Keri OverallProfessor in the **English department** at Tarrant County College (all)###### Rating Distribution### Similar ProfessorsTough graderGet ready to read* * ENGL1301 Sep 22nd, 2025 Quality 4.0 Difficulty 4.0 ENGL1301 Sep 22nd, 2025 For Credit: Yes Attendance: Mandatory Grade: B Textbook: N/A Online Class: Yes Dr. Overall is tough but fair. Her class is only four weeks and intense, with frequent quizzes, journals, and four hard essays. She gives helpful feedback, drops your lowest quiz, and is supportive. Stay organized, avoid procrastinating, and you'll pass. Don't let the review get to you! I struggle with writing, and I somehow passed! :) Get ready to readGives good feedbackSo many papers Helpful 1 0Very strict grader and her canvas is so confusing and unclear.* * ENG1301 Jul 4th, 2025 Quality 3.0 Difficulty 3.0 ENG1301 Jul 4th, 2025 For Credit: Yes Attendance: Mandatory Grade: A Textbook: N/A Online Class: Yes I took her online accelerated course over the summer. I will say she is a very tough grader; she doesn't come over as the nicest, but if you need help, she is more than willing to schedule individual meetings if you need, you just have to ask way ahead of time. Her canvas page is also confusing, and the work takes up a lot of your time Tough graderClear grading criteriaOnline Savvy Helpful 1 0Direct, firm, exacting. Unlike some of my other professors, Dr. Overall was a real college professor. She expects your work to rise to college-level, instead of bending down to meet you at high-school quality (or lower). She's willing to preview and correct rough drafts of papers, but not essay or journal assignments. Grades late. I liked her.Tough graderGet ready to readGraded by few thingsThe 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 ratemyprofessors.com.
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");
// 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://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 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 ratemyprofessors.com costs to scrape.
The capture above cost $0.000238 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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