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🧬 Ensembl Gene Lookup Scraper

🚀 Export Ensembl gene records by symbol from the public REST API.

🕒 Last updated 2026-06-05 · 📊 11 fields per record · public data · ready in seconds

Look up genes by HGNC symbol and pull ID, biotype, chromosome, span, strand and transcript counts.

📋 What this scraper does

• Calls the public source endpoint and parses the response.
• Normalises each record into a flat row with stable field names.
• Streams results straight into the dataset for instant export.
• Surfaces upstream errors as a single error record instead of crashing.

💡 Why it matters Public data is often locked behind awkward shapes, pagination tricks, and rate limits. This actor handles all of that and hands you a clean table.

🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon.

⚙️ Input

Example

{
"symbols":[
"BRCA1",
"TP53",
"EGFR"
],
"maxItems":10
}

⚠️ Good to Know Free runs return up to 10 records. Upgrade for full datasets.

📊 Output

Each record is a flat object.

Sample record

{
"id":"example",
"display_name":"example",
"biotype":"example",
"chromosome":"example",
"start":1,
"end":1,
"strand":1,
"transcriptCount":1,
"url":"example",
"scrapedAt":"2026-06-05T00:00:00.000Z",
"error":null
}

✨ Why choose this Actor

| 🆓 | Works with the source's public endpoint. No login required. | | 🧹 | Clean snake_case field names. | | 🔢 | Numeric fields cast to numbers. | | 🛟 | Upstream errors surfaced as a clean error record. | | 💾 | One click export from the Apify dataset UI. |

📈 How it compares to alternatives

🚀 How to use

1. Click Try for free.
2. Fill in the inputs or accept the prefilled defaults.
3. Click Start. Your dataset is ready in seconds.

💼 Business use cases

📊 Reporting. Schedule a daily run and pipe the results to your BI tool.

🤖 ML feature engineering. Use this dataset as a reference table joined to your training data.

🔍 Research. Snapshot the public source for reproducible analyses.

🏢 Internal mirrors. Mirror public data into your own warehouse on a schedule.

🔌 Automating Ensembl Gene Lookup Scraper

• Make and Zapier trigger a run on a schedule and push results to Airtable, Google Sheets, or Slack.
• Cron schedule native Apify scheduler.
• Webhooks receive a POST when a run finishes.
• Warehouse pipes push straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or Postgres.

🌟 Beyond business use cases

🎓 Education. Teach a class without paying for licensed data.

🧪 Personal research. Build your own dashboards.

🤝 Non profit and open data. Power public dashboards.

🧰 Tinkering and prototyping. Spin up reference data in seconds.

🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Paste this README into your AI assistant and ask it to map your workflow to the actor's inputs.

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

❓ Do I need an account? Yes, an Apify account. The source itself is public.

❓ Is there a rate limit? The source's public rate limits apply. The actor surfaces any errors as records.

❓ How fresh is the data? Every run hits the live source.

❓ Can I schedule runs? Yes, use Apify's scheduler.

❓ Can I filter? Yes, see the input fields above.

❓ What export formats are available? Every standard Apify dataset format.

❓ Will the schema change? Field names listed above are stable.

❓ Is this scraping or API? Public API.

❓ Can I run it once for free? Yes, a small preview run.

❓ Where do I get help? Open a ticket in the actor page.

🔌 Integrate with any app

Apify ships native integrations with Make, Zapier, Slack, Discord, Google Drive, Google Sheets, Gmail, Airbyte, Keboola, Telegram, GitHub, and any REST or webhook endpoint.

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