How to Scrape ClinicalTrials.gov — Free No-Code Guide (2026)

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If you need to pull ClinicalTrials.gov data at scale and there's no clean official API, this guide shows how to export it to JSON, CSV or Excel in a couple of minutes — with no scraping code to maintain.

We'll use the ClinicalTrials.gov Scraper, a hosted scraper on the Apify platform. You only need a free Apify token — no ClinicalTrials.gov login, no proxies, no reverse-engineering.

What data you get

Each run returns structured records with fields like:

nctId
briefTitle
overallStatus
phases
leadSponsor
conditions
enrollmentCount
startDate
officialTitle
acronym
organization
studyType
sponsorClass
collaborators

Results are paginated automatically — you can pull thousands of rows per run and export them as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL or XML.

Option 1 — No code (Apify Console)

Open the actor: https://apify.com/logiover/clinicaltrials-gov-scraper
Click Try for free.
Leave the input empty for a broad sample, or set the fields below.
Run it, then Export the dataset as CSV/JSON/Excel.

Option 2 — Node.js

npm install clinicaltrials-gov-scraper

const scrape = require("clinicaltrials-gov-scraper");

(async () => {
  const items = await scrape({}, { token: process.env.APIFY_TOKEN });
  console.log(items.length, "results");
  console.log(items[0]);
})();

Option 3 — Python

pip install clinicaltrials-gov-scraper

from clinicaltrials_gov_scraper import scrape

items = scrape({}, token="YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")
print(len(items), "results")
print(items[0])

Grab a free token at https://console.apify.com/account/integrations.

Input options

Field	Type	What it does
`condition`	string	Condition / Disease
`searchTerm`	string	Search Term
`sponsor`	string	Sponsor
`overallStatus`	array	Recruitment status
`studyType`	string	Study type
`sort`	string	Sort order
`maxStudies`	integer	Max studies

Common use cases

Build a fresh ClinicalTrials.gov dataset for analysis or dashboards
Feed ClinicalTrials.gov records into your own app, CRM or spreadsheet
Monitor changes on a schedule and get alerts via webhooks
Enrich leads or research with up-to-date ClinicalTrials.gov data

Automation & export

Because it runs on Apify, you can schedule it, trigger it via webhook, and pipe results into Google Sheets, S3, Zapier, Make or n8n. Every run's dataset is downloadable as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel or XML.