Rate My Professors Scraper API

The Piloterr Rate My Professors Scraper API lets you extract public data from Rate My Professors as clean, structured JSON — no proxies, headless browsers or HTML parsing to maintain. Endpoints available in production:

• Rate My Professors Professor API — Read one Rate My Professors profile, including difficulty and would-take-again when the page shows them.
• Rate My Professors Search API — Search Rate My Professors by name.

Use it for price monitoring, assortment tracking, competitor analysis, product research or catalog enrichment.

Endpoint	Path	Credits	What you get
Rate My Professors Professor API	/v2/ratemyprofessors/professor	2	Read one Rate My Professors profile, including difficulty and would-take-again when the page shows them.
Rate My Professors Search API	/v2/ratemyprofessors/search	2	Search Rate My Professors by name. Cards include school, department, difficulty, and would-take-again when the card shows them.

Table of contents

• How it works
• Rate My Professors Professor API
• Rate My Professors Search API
• Code examples in other languages
• Practical use cases
• Why Piloterr?
• FAQ
• Official SDKs
• Related scrapers
• Support

How it works

1. Create a free Piloterr account and copy your API key from the dashboard.
2. Send a GET (or POST) request to https://api.piloterr.com/v2/... with the header x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY.
3. Receive structured JSON — Piloterr handles rendering, proxies, retries and parsing.

export PILOTERR_API_KEY="your-api-key"
pip install requests        # Python
# TypeScript: Node.js 18+ (native fetch), run with `npx tsx file.ts`

Every endpoint accepts both GET (query string) and POST (JSON body with the same fields).

Rate My Professors Professor API

Read one Rate My Professors profile, including difficulty and would-take-again when the page shows them.

GET | POST https://api.piloterr.com/v2/ratemyprofessors/professor · 2 credits per request · Full reference

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
query	string	✅	Required. The numeric professor id from search, or a /professor/{id} URL. A name is not accepted.

Python example

import json
import os
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.piloterr.com/v2/ratemyprofessors/professor",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["PILOTERR_API_KEY"]},
    params={
        "query": "1064107",
    },
    timeout=120,
)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()

print(json.dumps(data, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)[:2000])

TypeScript example

type RateMyProfessorsProfessor = {
  id?: string;
  url?: string;
  name?: string;
  rating?: number;
  school?: string;
  last_name?: string;
  department?: string;
  difficulty?: number;
  first_name?: string;
  school_url?: string;
  ratings_count?: number;
  would_take_again_percent?: number;
};

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  "query": "1064107",
});

const response = await fetch(`https://api.piloterr.com/v2/ratemyprofessors/professor?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.PILOTERR_API_KEY! },
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Piloterr error ${response.status}: ${await response.text()}`);

const data = (await response.json()) as RateMyProfessorsProfessor;

console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2).slice(0, 2000));

POST variant

POST https://api.piloterr.com/v2/ratemyprofessors/professor
x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json

{"query": "1064107"}

Output example

Example response from the API reference, abridged — real values depend on the page you scrape.

{
  "id": "1064107",
  "url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/1064107",
  "name": "Kevin Smith",
  "rating": 4.6,
  "school": "Rio Hondo College",
  "last_name": "example",
  "department": "Psychology",
  "difficulty": 3.1,
  "first_name": "example",
  "school_url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/school/2746",
  "ratings_count": 174,
  "would_take_again_percent": 94
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Description
id	string
url	string
name	string
rating	number
school	string
last_name	string
department	string
difficulty	number
first_name	string
school_url	string
ratings_count	integer
would_take_again_percent	integer

Rate My Professors Search API

Search Rate My Professors by name. Cards include school, department, difficulty, and would-take-again when the card shows them.

GET | POST https://api.piloterr.com/v2/ratemyprofessors/search · 2 credits per request · Full reference

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
query	string	✅	Required. A professor name, or a Rate My Professors search URL whose path contains /search/professors or whose query contains q=.

Python example

import json
import os
import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.piloterr.com/v2/ratemyprofessors/search",
    headers={"x-api-key": os.environ["PILOTERR_API_KEY"]},
    params={
        "query": "smith",
    },
    timeout=120,
)
response.raise_for_status()
data = response.json()

print(json.dumps(data, indent=2, ensure_ascii=False)[:2000])

TypeScript example

type RateMyProfessorsSearch = {
  results?: {
    id?: string;
    url?: string;
    name?: string;
    rating?: number;
    school?: string;
    department?: string;
    difficulty?: number;
    ratings_count?: number;
    would_take_again_percent?: number;
  }[];
  pagination?: {
    next?: unknown;
    page?: number;
    per_page?: number;
    total_pages?: unknown;
    total_results?: number;
  };
};

const params = new URLSearchParams({
  "query": "smith",
});

const response = await fetch(`https://api.piloterr.com/v2/ratemyprofessors/search?${params}`, {
  headers: { "x-api-key": process.env.PILOTERR_API_KEY! },
});
if (!response.ok) throw new Error(`Piloterr error ${response.status}: ${await response.text()}`);

const data = (await response.json()) as RateMyProfessorsSearch;

console.log(JSON.stringify(data, null, 2).slice(0, 2000));

POST variant

POST https://api.piloterr.com/v2/ratemyprofessors/search
x-api-key: YOUR_API_KEY
Content-Type: application/json

{"query": "smith"}

Output example

Example response from the API reference, abridged — real values depend on the page you scrape.

{
  "results": [
    {
      "id": "1064107",
      "url": "https://www.ratemyprofessors.com/professor/1064107",
      "name": "Kevin Smith",
      "rating": 4.6,
      "school": "Rio Hondo College",
      "department": "Psychology",
      "difficulty": 3.1,
      "ratings_count": 174,
      "would_take_again_percent": 94
    }
  ],
  "pagination": {
    "next": null,
    "page": 1,
    "per_page": 5,
    "total_pages": null,
    "total_results": 10000
  }
}

Response fields

Field	Type	Description
results[]	object[]
results[].id	string
results[].url	string
results[].name	string
results[].rating	number
results[].school	string
results[].department	string
results[].difficulty	number
results[].ratings_count	integer
results[].would_take_again_percent	integer
pagination	object
pagination.next	object
pagination.page	integer
pagination.per_page	integer
pagination.total_pages	object
pagination.total_results	integer

Code examples in other languages

Ready-to-run examples live in the examples/ folder. Each one reads your key from the PILOTERR_API_KEY environment variable.

Language	Professor	Search
cURL (Bash)	professor	search
PHP	professor	search
C#	professor	search
Go	professor	search
Java	professor	search
Ruby	professor	search
Node.js	professor	search

Practical use cases

• Price monitoring — Track prices, promotions and availability over time to react to competitors.
• Assortment & catalog tracking — Follow new products, delisted items and category changes.
• Competitor analysis — Benchmark ranges, brands and positioning across retailers.
• Product research — Spot best-sellers and trends from search results.
• Catalog enrichment — Pull titles, images and attributes into your PIM or marketplace listings.

Why Piloterr?

• No infrastructure — no proxies, headless browsers or CAPTCHA solving to run yourself.
• Structured JSON — stable, documented fields instead of brittle HTML selectors.
• Pay per request — transparent credit cost per endpoint, failed requests are retried for you.
• One API key, hundreds of sources — Rate My Professors plus many other e-commerce, search and company data endpoints in the Piloterr library.
• Any language — plain HTTPS + JSON, with examples for Python, TypeScript, cURL, PHP, C#, Go, Java, Ruby and Node.js.

FAQ

Is it legal to scrape Rate My Professors?

Collecting publicly available data is generally allowed in many jurisdictions, but rules depend on your country, the data you collect and how you use it. Avoid personal data unless you have a lawful basis, respect the website's terms where they apply, and get legal advice for your specific use case. This is not legal advice.

Do I need proxies or a headless browser?

No. Piloterr handles rendering, proxy rotation and retries on its side. You only send an HTTPS request with your x-api-key header and receive JSON.

How much does a request cost?

Credits per call: /v2/ratemyprofessors/professor 2, /v2/ratemyprofessors/search 2. See the Piloterr website for plans.

What data does the Rate My Professors API return?

Each endpoint returns structured JSON: Rate My Professors Professor — id, url, name, rating, school, last_name; Rate My Professors Search — results[], results[].id, results[].url, results[].name, results[].rating, results[].school.

Which languages are supported?

Any language that can make an HTTP request. This README shows Python and TypeScript; the examples/ folder contains cURL, PHP, C#, Go, Java, Ruby and Node.js.

Official SDKs

Use Piloterr from your own language with a typed client:

SDK	Package	Install
Node.js	@piloterr/sdk	npm install @piloterr/sdk
Python	piloterr	pip install piloterr
Go	piloterr-go	go get github.com/piloterr/piloterr-go
.NET	Piloterr	dotnet add package Piloterr
Ruby	piloterr	gem install piloterr
PHP	piloterr/sdk	composer require piloterr/sdk
Java	piloterr-java	build from source, see its README
CLI	@piloterr/cli	npm install -g @piloterr/cli
MCP server	@piloterr/mcp	npx -y @piloterr/mcp

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Support

• 💬 Join the Piloterr Discord to ask questions and share what you build.
• 📚 Browse the API reference (OpenAPI) and the Piloterr library.
• 🔑 Get your API key.

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