ORCID Scraper - Researcher Profiles & iDs

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ORCID, Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "ORCID" is referenced only to describe the publicly available website this Actor collects data from.

Search ORCID - the registry of 20M+ researcher identities - or resolve ORCID iDs to public profiles: name, other names, institutions, country, biography, keywords, researcher URLs, external IDs and public email where the researcher has shared it. For academic lead-gen, recruiting and research-network mapping. No key, no browser.

What you get per researcher

Field	Meaning
orcidId / orcidUrl	The ORCID iD and profile link
givenNames / familyName / creditName / otherNames	Names
institutions	Affiliated organisations
country / biography / keywords	Location, bio and research keywords (full profile)
researcherUrls / externalIds	Personal/lab links and other IDs (Scopus, ResearcherID...)
emails	Public email, where the researcher made it public

Input

{ "searchQueries": ["keyword:genomics"], "fullProfile": true, "maxItemsPerQuery": 100 }

• Search queries - plain text or field syntax: family-name:Smith, affiliation-org-name:MIT, keyword:genomics. ORCID iDs - exact lookups (always full profile).
• Full profile for search results - also fetch each researcher's biography/keywords/URLs/country (one extra request each; off by default for fast name/institution results).
• Import from a file (queries and iDs auto-detected) and Output fields work as on our other actors.

Leave everything empty and the run returns a small free sample so you can see the shape first.

Reliability

Reads the public ORCID API - keyless, no anti-bot, paginated. A search that returns nothing bills $0.

Honest limits

• Only public data. ORCID profiles are researcher-controlled; email, biography and even names are shown only when the researcher set them public - many leave fields private, so a null is the researcher's privacy choice, not a scraping gap.
• Search results carry names + institutions; biography/keywords/URLs/country fill on an iD lookup or when Full profile is on.
• This is identity/profile data, not publications - for a researcher's papers use our Crossref, OpenAlex or PubMed scrapers with their ORCID iD.

Pricing

$0.002 per researcher on the FREE tier (tiered pricing lowers it with volume). Only researchers actually saved are billed; an empty search costs nothing.

Output views

• Researchers - ORCID iD, names, institutions, country, keywords, profile link.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

Available through the Apify MCP server - an agent can build a list of researchers at an institution, find experts by keyword, or resolve an ORCID iD to a profile in one call. Pairs with our Crossref, OpenAlex and PubMed scrapers.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready - AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 - an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server - no account, no API key.
• Skyfire - agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

Automate & schedule

Run this Actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API - start runs, fetch datasets and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python - official SDKs.
• Schedules - run it hourly, daily or weekly and keep your dataset current.
• Webhooks - trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/orcid-scraper').call({
    "searchQueries": [
        "family-name:Curie"
    ],
    "maxItemsPerQuery": 25
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} records`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to thousands of apps - no code required:

• Make - multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier - push new records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Slack - get notified when a scheduled run finds something new.
• Google Drive / Sheets - auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub - trigger runs from commits or releases.

FAQ

How is this Actor billed? Pay-per-event: you pay only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The per-event price is shown on the Pricing tab.

Can I schedule it and get results automatically? Yes - create a Schedule and add a webhook or an integration (Google Sheets, Slack, Make, Zapier) to push each run's dataset wherever you need it.

Which export formats are available? Every run's dataset can be downloaded as JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), XML, HTML or RSS from the Apify Console or the API.

Can I run it from code or an AI agent? Yes - through the Apify API and client libraries, or from Claude, ChatGPT and other assistants via the Apify MCP server.

Is it legal to scrape ORCID? This Actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the output in compliance with applicable laws (including data-protection law where personal data is involved) and the source's terms. See Data & lawful use and the Disclaimer below.

Is this an official ORCID tool? No. It is an independent, third-party Actor with no affiliation to, endorsement by or sponsorship from ORCID, Inc. See the Disclaimer below.

Data & lawful use

This Actor reads only what ORCID publishes to logged-out visitors: it does not log in, use cookies or session tokens, create accounts, or reach anything behind a sign-in. Names, handles, bios and engagement figures are public, but they relate to identifiable people, so treat the output as personal data. If you are in the EU or UK you are the data controller for what you do with it: have a lawful basis (usually legitimate interest for research, marketing analytics or B2B prospecting), honour access and deletion requests, and do not use the output for spam or unsolicited messaging.

Under Apify's Standard Actor Contract, which governs your use of this Actor, you are the controller of any personal data in your input and output and scrapesage acts only as your processor: that data is processed solely to run your job, written only to your own Apify storage, never used for any other purpose and never shared onward. If you need help with a data-subject request that involves this Actor's output, open an issue on the Issues tab.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ORCID, Inc. or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"ORCID" and any related marks are the property of their respective owners and are used here only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the publicly accessible website from which this Actor collects data. This Actor is not an official ORCID product, is not authorised or certified by ORCID, Inc., and does not distribute ORCID software. It collects only publicly available information; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the terms of the source website.

Need help?

Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome - this Actor is actively maintained.