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Global education data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract programme curricula, tuition fees, application deadlines, and admission criteria from Studyportals. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Programmes extracted
185K /run
Tuition updates
42K /24h
University profiles
3.8K /run
Active pipelines
64
Uptime
99.98%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from studyportals.eu

Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.

Complete list of extractable fields for Degree Programmes objects from studyportals.eu. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

programme_idtitledegree_typeuniversity_namelocation_citylocation_countryduration_monthstuition_feecurrencylanguage_of_instruction
degree_programmes
● 200 OK
"programme_id": "SP-847291",
"title": "Data Science and Artificial Intelligence",
"degree_type": "MSc",
"university_name": "Technical University of Munich",
"location_city": "Munich",
"location_country": "Germany",
"duration_months": 24,
"language_of_instruction": "English"
# programme_idtitledegree_typeuniversity_namelocation_citylocation_country
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Complete list of extractable fields for Admission Requirements objects from studyportals.eu. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

programme_idacademic_requirement_textielts_min_scoretoefl_min_scoregpa_minimumwork_experience_requiredinterview_requiredportfolio_requiredgre_gmat_required
admission_requirements
● 200 OK
"programme_id": "SP-847291",
"ielts_min_score": 6.5,
"toefl_min_score": 90,
"gpa_minimum": "3.0/4.0",
"work_experience_required": false,
"interview_required": true,
"gre_gmat_required": false
# programme_idacademic_requirement_textielts_min_scoretoefl_min_scoregpa_minimumwork_experience_required
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Complete list of extractable fields for University Profiles objects from studyportals.eu. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

university_idnamecountrycityglobal_rank_theglobal_rank_qsstudent_countintl_student_pctcampus_typewebsite_url
university_profiles
● 200 OK
"university_id": "U-1048",
"name": "Technical University of Munich",
"country": "Germany",
"city": "Munich",
"global_rank_qs": 37,
"student_count": 50467,
"intl_student_pct": 38
# university_idnamecountrycityglobal_rank_theglobal_rank_qs
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Complete list of extractable fields for Tuition & Funding objects from studyportals.eu. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

programme_idfee_domesticfee_internationalcurrencypayment_cycleliving_cost_estimatescholarships_availablefunding_type
tuition_& funding
● 200 OK
"programme_id": "SP-847291",
"fee_domestic": 0.0,
"fee_international": 3000.0,
"currency": "EUR",
"payment_cycle": "per semester",
"living_cost_estimate": 1200.0,
"scholarships_available": true
# programme_idfee_domesticfee_internationalcurrencypayment_cycleliving_cost_estimate
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Complete list of extractable fields for Deadlines & Dates objects from studyportals.eu. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

programme_idintake_monthapplication_deadlinelate_app_deadlineterm_start_dateterm_end_dateduration_monthsstudy_mode
deadlines_& dates
● 200 OK
"programme_id": "SP-847291",
"intake_month": "October",
"application_deadline": "2025-05-31",
"term_start_date": "2025-10-01",
"duration_months": 24,
"study_mode": "Full-time"
# programme_idintake_monthapplication_deadlinelate_app_deadlineterm_start_dateterm_end_date
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Capabilities

Everything you need from Studyportals - nothing you don't

Our Studyportals scraper extracts global education data across thousands of universities. We handle currency normalisation, location-based rendering, and unstructured admission criteria parsing.

Full Programme Extraction

Title, degree type, curriculum structure, duration, and study mode extracted for Bachelor, Master, and PhD programmes globally.

Tuition & Currency Normalisation

Capture domestic and international tuition fees, payment cycles, and living cost estimates across multiple base currencies.

Admission Criteria Parsing

Extract IELTS, TOEFL, GRE, and GPA requirements from unstructured text blocks into strict numeric fields.

University Intelligence

Scrape university profiles, campus locations, student demographics, and global ranking metrics (QS, THE).

Deadline Tracking

Monitor application deadlines, intake months, and term start dates for both EU and non-EU applicants.

Geo-Targeted Rendering

Studyportals alters fees and deadlines based on visitor IP. We use specific regional proxies to capture exact data for target applicant demographics.

Discipline & Category Mapping

Map programmes to standard academic disciplines and sub-disciplines for accurate taxonomy building.

Online & Distance Learning

Filter and extract specific cohorts of online degrees, short courses, and blended learning programmes.

Scheduled Updates

Run continuous pipelines to capture new programme launches and tuition fee updates ahead of major intake seasons.

// engagement pipeline

From programme search to warehouse record

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target disciplines, countries, or specific university lists. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy routing for accurate fee rendering, and pagination logic.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, currency outlier detection, and language parsing before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.

Under the hood

How our Studyportals pipeline handles the hard parts

Extracting higher education data requires precise geo-routing and unstructured text parsing. Here is how we maintain pipeline integrity.

pipeline-monitor · studyportals.eu · live ● active
// fingerprinting
Identity rotation
TLS fingerprintrandomised
User-agentrotated
IP poolresidential
Challenges blocked0
// pagination
Page coverage
48,291 pages queued running
// observability
Pipeline health
99.9%
uptime
142ms
p99 lat
0.3%
null rate
2
alerts
Geo-routing
Accurate tuition rendering via regional IPs

Studyportals dynamically displays tuition fees and deadlines based on the visitor's IP address (EU vs non-EU). Our pipeline forces specific residential proxy regions to extract the correct fee structures for your target applicant demographic.

Text parsing
Structuring admission criteria

Language requirements and GPA minimums are often buried in unstructured text blocks. We deploy regex and NLP parsing to extract exact IELTS scores, TOEFL minimums, and credit requirements into clean numeric fields.

Deep pagination
Exhaustive category crawling

Broad discipline searches yield thousands of results across deep pagination structures. We bypass UI limitations by interacting directly with the underlying JSON APIs where available, ensuring zero dropped records.

Schema stability
Resilient selectors

Platform layouts change frequently. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field, ensuring a CSS class update does not break your data pipeline overnight.

Monitoring
Automated null-rate alerting

Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes in critical fields like tuition fees or deadlines, pausing delivery until the schema is patched.

Applications

Who uses Studyportals data - and how

Teams across industries use studyportals.eu data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
EdTech Aggregators

Student recruitment platforms ingest our feeds to populate their own programme discovery engines without manual data entry.

02
University Market Research

Academic institutions track competitor tuition fees, new programme launches, and curriculum structures to benchmark their own offerings.

03
Student Finance Providers

Lenders and scholarship platforms use tuition and living cost data to model loan products and assess funding requirements.

04
Lead Generation Agencies

International student recruitment agencies map admission criteria against student profiles to automate application shortlisting.

05
Government Education Boards

Policy makers analyse global mobility trends, discipline popularity, and international fee structures to inform domestic education policy.

06
AI Recommendation Engines

Machine learning teams train career and education matching algorithms on structured curriculum and outcome data.

Why DataFlirt

"Studyportals aggregates the global higher education market, but mapping thousands of fragmented admission criteria into a unified schema requires dedicated infrastructure."

Most teams underestimate the complexity of education data extraction. Parsing unstructured IELTS requirements, normalising tuition fees across 40 currencies, and managing deep pagination requires continuous maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on product development.

Technical Spec

Studyportals scraper - technical capabilities

Everything supported by our studyportals.eu scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.

JavaScript rendering
Full Playwright sessions required for dynamic filters and lazy-loaded results
Supported
Geo-targeted fee extraction
Extract specific domestic vs international fees using regional proxy routing
Supported
Curriculum text parsing
Extraction of module lists and credit weightings from programme descriptions
Supported
University ranking data
Capture embedded QS and THE ranking metrics per institution
Supported
Language score normalisation
Regex extraction of IELTS, TOEFL, and PTE minimum scores
Supported
Change detection (diffs)
Hash-based diff: only emit records with updated fees or deadlines
Supported
Webhook delivery
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
Supported
Multi-site coverage
Supports Bachelorsportal, Mastersportal, and PhDportal variants
Supported
User saved programme shortlists
Requires authenticated student account credentials
Partial
Direct application tracking status
Requires access to internal university application portals
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the education pipeline

Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.

ScrapyPlaywrightPython 3.12RedisPostgreSQLApache AirflowAWS LambdaS3CloudWatch2CaptchaCapSolverResidential ProxiesDockerKubernetesGrafanaPrometheus
Scrapy + Playwright Stack

Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.

Geo-Routed Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request with strict geographic targeting to ensure accurate tuition fee rendering for specific applicant cohorts.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.

Output & Delivery

Your data, your destination

Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.

JSON
Newline-delimited or nested - schema versioned per run
CSV
Flat file with typed columns - Excel/Sheets compatible
Parquet
Columnar format for BigQuery, Snowflake, Athena
S3
Direct bucket delivery - compatible with any data lake
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset with schema auto-detect
Webhook
HTTP POST per record for real-time downstream processing
API
REST endpoint to query extracted records on demand
Snowflake
Stage + COPY INTO workflow - incremental or full-replace
// faq

Common questions.

About studyportals.eu scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Studyportals legal?

Scraping publicly available information from Studyportals is generally permissible under applicable law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated degree programme, tuition, and university data. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review target site ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.

How do you ensure tuition fees are accurate for my target audience?

Studyportals alters fee displays based on IP geolocation to distinguish between EU and non-EU applicants. We configure our residential proxy pools to route requests through the specific country you require, guaranteeing accurate fee extraction.

Can you extract data from Bachelorsportal and Mastersportal simultaneously?

Yes. The Studyportals network operates on a shared underlying architecture. We can configure a unified pipeline that extracts data across all their sub-domains into a single normalised schema.

How do you handle unstructured admission requirements?

We use a combination of regex patterns and NLP to parse text blocks like 'Applicants need a minimum IELTS score of 6.5 with no band below 6.0' into discrete numeric fields in your database.

How fresh is the data?

For full catalogue extractions spanning hundreds of thousands of programmes, we typically run weekly or monthly cadences. Targeted updates for specific universities or disciplines can be scheduled daily.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our smallest packages start at a defined list of universities or a specific discipline cluster with monthly delivery. For full global catalogue extraction, we price based on compute volume and delivery frequency.

Can I request a sample dataset before committing?

Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 programmes as part of the pre-engagement scoping process, allowing you to validate schema fit and parsing accuracy before signing any contract.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=studyportals.eu ready

Tell us what
to extract.
We do the rest.

20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off catalogue dump or a continuous feed of tuition updates across 100K programmes - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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