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RUN . 42 active pipelines . unigo.com live

Unigo data,
at warehouse scale.

We extract scholarship details, college statistics, admission criteria, and student reviews from Unigo. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.

Scholarships extracted
3.2M /run
College profiles
7,841 /run
Student reviews
942K /total
Active pipelines
42
Uptime
99.94%
Data Dictionary

Every field we extract from unigo.com

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

Complete list of extractable fields for Scholarships objects from unigo.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

scholarship_idtitleprovideraward_amountdeadlineeligibility_criteriaapplication_urlcategorydescriptionnumber_of_awards
scholarships
● 200 OK
"scholarship_id": "SCH-8921",
"title": "STEM Excellence Award",
"provider": "Tech Foundation",
"award_amount": 5000,
"deadline": "2026-03-15",
"category": "Engineering",
"number_of_awards": 10
# scholarship_idtitleprovideraward_amountdeadlineeligibility_criteria
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Complete list of extractable fields for College Profiles objects from unigo.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

unitidnamelocationinstitution_typetotal_enrollmenttuition_in_statetuition_out_stateacceptance_ratewebsite_urlsetting
college_profiles
● 200 OK
"unitid": "193900",
"name": "New York University",
"location": "New York, NY",
"institution_type": "Private",
"total_enrollment": 52885,
"tuition_in_state": 56500,
"acceptance_rate": 0.16
# unitidnamelocationinstitution_typetotal_enrollmenttuition_in_state
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Complete list of extractable fields for Student Reviews objects from unigo.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

review_idcollege_idauthor_yearoverall_ratingacademics_ratingcampus_life_ratingreview_textdate_postedmajorhelpful_votes
student_reviews
● 200 OK
"review_id": "REV-449102",
"college_id": "193900",
"author_year": "Junior",
"overall_rating": 4.5,
"academics_rating": 5.0,
"review_text": "Great professors and networking opportunities.",
"date_posted": "2025-11-02"
# review_idcollege_idauthor_yearoverall_ratingacademics_ratingcampus_life_rating
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Complete list of extractable fields for Admissions Data objects from unigo.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

college_idapplication_deadlineapplication_feesat_reading_25thsat_math_25thact_composite_25thhigh_school_gpa_reqinterview_reqessay_reqrecommendation_req
admissions_data
● 200 OK
"college_id": "193900",
"application_deadline": "2026-01-01",
"application_fee": 80,
"sat_reading_25th": 680,
"sat_math_25th": 700,
"high_school_gpa_req": "Required",
"essay_req": "Required"
# college_idapplication_deadlineapplication_feesat_reading_25thsat_math_25thact_composite_25th
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Complete list of extractable fields for Financial Aid objects from unigo.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.

college_idavg_net_pricepct_receiving_aidavg_grant_amountavg_loan_amountpell_grant_pctstate_grant_pctinstitutional_grant_pctavg_debt_at_graduationwork_study_available
financial_aid
● 200 OK
"college_id": "193900",
"avg_net_price": 42397,
"pct_receiving_aid": 0.52,
"avg_grant_amount": 32000,
"pell_grant_pct": 0.18,
"institutional_grant_pct": 0.48,
"work_study_available": true
# college_idavg_net_pricepct_receiving_aidavg_grant_amountavg_loan_amountpell_grant_pct
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Capabilities

Extract structured education data

Our Unigo scraper handles dynamic search filters, pagination state, and nested review components to deliver clean, relational data for colleges and scholarships.

Scholarship Extraction

Capture award amounts, deadlines, eligibility criteria, and descriptions across thousands of scholarship listings.

College Profiles

Extract tuition costs, enrollment figures, acceptance rates, and demographic breakdowns for every listed institution.

Review Mining

Scrape student review text, star ratings, and sub-ratings for academics, campus life, and dorms.

Admission Statistics

Collect standardized test score percentiles, application deadlines, and high school GPA requirements.

Financial Aid Metrics

Extract average net price, grant percentages, and typical student debt figures per institution.

Daily Updates

Monitor scholarship deadlines and new review submissions with scheduled daily or weekly pipeline runs.

Filter Parameters

Apply specific search parameters to target scholarships by major, state, or demographic eligibility.

Pagination Handling

Navigate deep pagination structures to ensure complete capture of review corpora and directory listings.

Data Normalisation

Standardise date formats, currency values, and percentage figures into strict typed schemas.

// engagement pipeline

From target selection to warehouse delivery

Brief in. Clean data out.

Define Scope
d 0

Provide target categories, scholarship filters, or college lists. We design the extraction schema together.

Pipeline Build
d 2–4

We configure Scrapy crawlers, handle pagination state, and manage IP rotation for unigo.com.

Validation & QA
d 4–6

Schema validation, null-rate checks, and sample data review before full launch.

Delivery
ongoing

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

Under the hood

Handling Unigo extraction challenges

Extracting structured data from dynamic directories requires specific infrastructure. Here is how we manage the pipeline.

pipeline-monitor · unigo.com · 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
Dynamic loading
Handling React components

Unigo relies on JavaScript to render scholarship lists and review pagination. We use Playwright to execute client-side code and capture the fully hydrated DOM.

Schema stability
Resilient DOM selectors

We implement multi-layered XPath and CSS selectors to handle variations in college profile layouts and missing data fields.

Proxy rotation
Residential IP pools

To maintain high concurrency without triggering rate limits, we route requests through US-based residential proxy networks.

Change detection
Delta exports

For daily scholarship updates, we hash existing records and only emit new or modified listings, reducing downstream processing costs.

Payload parsing
Extracting embedded JSON

We intercept background API calls and parse embedded Next.js data objects to extract structured information before it renders.

Applications

Who uses Unigo data

Teams across industries use unigo.com data to build competitive products and smarter operations.

01
EdTech Platforms

Incorporate scholarship directories and college statistics into student advisory applications.

02
Lead Generation

Identify institutions with specific demographic profiles for targeted marketing campaigns.

03
Academic Research

Analyse student sentiment trends across different institution types using the review corpus.

04
Financial Services

Incorporate tuition costs and financial aid statistics into student loan underwriting models.

05
College Counselors

Build internal databases of admission requirements and scholarship deadlines for client advising.

06
Policy Analysts

Track changes in tuition costs and acceptance rates across state university systems.

Why DataFlirt

"Unigo contains the most comprehensive database of private scholarships and verified student reviews, but accessing it systematically requires dedicated pipeline infrastructure."

Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Unigo scraping requires handling dynamic React components, pagination state, daily selector maintenance, and anomaly monitoring. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis.

Technical Spec

Unigo scraper specifications

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

Scholarship directories
Full extraction of all public scholarship listings and details
Supported
College statistics
Tuition, enrollment, and admission metrics per institution
Supported
Student review text
Complete review corpus including sub-ratings
Supported
Dynamic search filters
Application of custom parameters to target specific data subsets
Supported
Change detection
Hash-based diffing for daily updates
Supported
Residential proxy rotation
ISP-grade residential IPs to prevent rate limiting
Supported
User account profiles
Private student profile data and saved preferences
Partial
Saved scholarship lists
Requires authenticated user session access
Partial
Direct application submission
Automated submission of scholarship applications
Partial
Infrastructure

Infrastructure powering the Unigo 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 and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering and interaction flows for dynamic directories.

Residential Proxy Infrastructure

We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request to ensure high concurrency without IP bans.

Cloud-Native Orchestration

Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling and dependency management. 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 arrays
CSV
Flat file with typed columns
Parquet
Columnar format for data warehouses
S3
Direct bucket delivery
Webhook
HTTP POST per record
XLS
Excel compatible export
API
REST endpoint access
BigQuery
Streamed directly into your dataset
// faq

Common questions.

About unigo.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.

Ask us directly →
Is scraping Unigo legal?

Scraping publicly available information from Unigo is generally permissible. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated scholarship, college, and review data. We do not extract personal user data or circumvent authentication walls.

How do you handle Unigo pagination?

We use Playwright to execute the underlying JavaScript pagination logic, ensuring we capture the complete dataset across all directory pages without missing records.

How fresh is the scholarship data?

We can configure pipelines to run daily, capturing new scholarship listings and updating approaching deadlines within 24 hours of publication.

Can you extract specific scholarship categories?

Yes. We can apply specific search parameters to target scholarships by major, demographic, state, or award amount based on your requirements.

Do you capture all student reviews?

Yes. We paginate through the entire review history for specified colleges, capturing the full text, date, and sub-category ratings.

What is the minimum viable engagement?

Our minimum engagement typically starts at a defined set of colleges or scholarship categories with weekly delivery. Contact us for a scoped quote based on your volume.

Can I request a sample dataset?

Yes. We provide a sample run of up to 100 college profiles or 500 scholarship listings to validate schema fit and data quality before contract signing.

$ dataflirt scope --new-project --source=unigo.com 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 export of college statistics or a continuous feed of scholarship deadlines, we build and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.

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