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NLM MeSH SPARQL Scraper

Pull terms from the NLM Medical Subject Headings SPARQL endpoint by release year and optional label substring. Returns descriptor URIs, preferred labels, tree numbers, scope notes, and concept relationships. Useful for biomedical indexing, literature search tooling, and ontology alignment.

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๐Ÿ”ฌ NLM MeSH SPARQL Scraper

๐Ÿš€ Export NLM MeSH data in seconds. Structured records ready for spreadsheet, database, and BI tooling.

๐Ÿ•’ Last updated: 2026-06-05 ยท ๐Ÿ“Š 12 fields per record ยท Public data ยท Real-time fetch

The NLM MeSH SPARQL Scraper turns the public NLM MeSH endpoint into a clean, structured dataset. It calls the upstream API, parses the response, and flattens each record into one row, ready for downstream tooling.

๐ŸŽฏ Target Audience๐Ÿ’ก Primary Use Cases
๐Ÿ“Š Analysts and researchersBuild clean datasets from public NLM MeSH data.
๐Ÿข Operations teamsMonitor key indicators on a schedule.
๐Ÿค– ML engineersConstruct training and evaluation sets.
๐Ÿ“ฐ JournalistsVerify figures and pull sources with one click.
๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป DevelopersMirror upstream data into your warehouse without writing client code.

๐Ÿ“‹ What the NLM MeSH SPARQL Scraper does

  • Calls the public NLM MeSH endpoint with the filters you supply.
  • Parses the response and normalizes each record.
  • Casts numeric fields where possible so the data drops cleanly into BI tools.
  • Surfaces upstream errors and rate limits as a single record with the error field set.
  • Exports to any downstream format supported by Apify.

๐Ÿ’ก Why it matters. Public data is great, but raw API responses rarely map cleanly to a spreadsheet. This actor handles the plumbing so you can focus on analysis.

๐ŸŽฌ Full Demo

๐Ÿšง Coming soon.

โš™๏ธ Input

FieldTypeRequiredDescription
maxItemsintegerNoFree users 10. Paid up to 1,000,000.
yearstringNoMeSH release year (e.g. 2024).
labelContainsstringNoOptional substring filter on term label.

Example.

{
"maxItems":10,
"year":"2024"
}

โš ๏ธ Good to Know. This actor talks to the public NLM MeSH endpoint. Upstream rate limits and availability apply.

๐Ÿ“Š Output

Each record is a flat object. error is always last.

FieldTypeDescription
mesh_idstringField returned by NLM MeSH.
labelstringField returned by NLM MeSH.
scope_notestringField returned by NLM MeSH.
tree_numbersstringField returned by NLM MeSH.
qualifiersstringField returned by NLM MeSH.
broaderstringField returned by NLM MeSH.
narrowerstringField returned by NLM MeSH.
relatedstringField returned by NLM MeSH.
semantic_typesstringField returned by NLM MeSH.
yearstringField returned by NLM MeSH.
scrapedAtstringField returned by NLM MeSH.
errorstringField returned by NLM MeSH.

โœจ Why choose this Actor

| ๐Ÿ†“ | Works with the public NLM MeSH endpoint. No login required. | | ๐Ÿงน | Clean, normalized field names ready for BI tools. | | ๐Ÿ”ข | Numeric values parsed where possible. | | ๐Ÿ›Ÿ | Upstream errors surface as a single error record instead of crashing. | | ๐Ÿ’พ | Push to dataset, exportable to any format Apify supports. |

๐Ÿ“ˆ How it compares to alternatives

ApproachSetup timeClean keysNumeric castingError handling
Roll your own client30 min+โŒโŒโŒ
This Actor5 sec, no installโœ…โœ…โœ…

๐Ÿš€ How to use

  1. Click Try for free.
  2. Adjust the filters or leave defaults.
  3. Click Start. Within seconds, your dataset is ready.

๐Ÿ’ผ Business use cases

๐Ÿ“Š Analytics dashboards. Pipe NLM MeSH records into your BI stack for live monitoring.

๐Ÿ“ˆ Trend research. Build historical series for strategy and forecasting.

๐Ÿ“ฐ Newsroom fact checking. Verify a figure for a story without leaving the browser.

๐Ÿค– ML feature engineering. Generate clean training inputs from public data.

๐Ÿ”Œ Automating NLM MeSH SPARQL Scraper

  • Make and Zapier. Trigger this actor on a schedule, route results to Sheets or Slack.
  • Cron schedule. Native Apify scheduler, every hour, day, or week.
  • Webhooks. POST to your endpoint the moment a run finishes.
  • Pipe to BigQuery, Snowflake, Postgres. Native Apify integrations move datasets straight into your warehouse.

๐ŸŒŸ Beyond business use cases

๐ŸŽ“ Education. Use real public data in your statistics or research class.

๐Ÿงช Personal research. Build your own datasets for tinkering.

๐Ÿค Non-profit and open data. Publish dashboards without writing client code.

๐Ÿงฐ Prototyping. Spin up a real data feed in 5 seconds to test a new tool.

๐Ÿค– Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Drop this README into ChatGPT, Claude, or any AI assistant and ask it to map your specific workflow to the actor's inputs.

โ“ Frequently Asked Questions

โ“ Is this real time? Each run hits the upstream endpoint live.

โ“ Do I need an API key? No. The actor uses public endpoints.

โ“ How are upstream errors handled? A clean record with the error field set is pushed to the dataset.

โ“ Can I schedule runs? Yes, use Apify's native scheduler or hook this up to Make or Zapier.

โ“ What export formats are supported? Any format Apify's dataset UI offers.

โ“ How fresh is the data? As fresh as NLM MeSH publishes it.

โ“ Can the schema change? Core fields are stable. Upstream additions are passed through where possible.

โ“ Are values cast to numbers? Yes where the upstream returns numeric strings.

โ“ Does it follow upstream pagination? Where applicable yes, capped by maxItems.

โ“ Is this allowed? Only public data is fetched. Comply with the upstream terms of use.

๐Ÿ”Œ 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 API or webhook endpoint. Trigger runs from a calendar event, a form submission, a cron job, or pipe results straight into BigQuery, Snowflake, or a Postgres warehouse.

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