ratemyprofessors.com API: get_professor_by_name
ratemyprofessors.com via Parse · education
Convenience endpoint to get detailed data for a professor by their full name. Performs a search and returns the full profile of the best matching result. If an exact name match is found in the top 10 results it is preferred; otherwise the first result is used. Returns stale_input with kind 'input_not_found' if no match is found. Retrieves professor ratings, reviews, and metadata from RateMyProfessors.com using their internal GraphQL API. Supports searching by name and fetching detailed profiles including course lists and recent comments. Fulfilled by Parse from ratemyprofessors.com.
- education
- parse
- platform-key
- ratemyprofessors-com
- reviews-ratings
- social-media
Price and execution
- Price
- $0.02 USD credits / call
- Trust tier
- Verified
- Execution
- Managed call
- Capability group
- education
Interface snapshot
- Protocol
- HTTP operation
- Operation
- GET /scraper/32ad44ea-e63f-4810-a4fe-10e409452bae/get_professor_by_name
- Interface artifact
- sha256:64fb2a8d9d57fc8681e2fb93d697abd65c63a0602ee81cb2fe4bf528578840b6
- Manifest digest
- sha256:a97395f99b287d359ae2bea9da1afef6e19d5b01cf9d1ba66b4255ad2a3c07ed
Request fields
- name (string, required): Full name of the professor to look up
- school_id (string): Optional school ID (base64-encoded) to filter the search by a specific school
Example queries
- {"name":"John Smith"}