Top Universities | 2025 Activity

A Node.js project to scrape university rankings data from top1000.com and save it to CSV format.

Features

• Fetches top 1000 universities ranking data
• Extracts university name, city, country, website, and index score
• Exports data to CSV format
• Clean and simple Node.js implementation

Installation

npm install

Usage

Run the scraper:

npm start

The script will:

1. Fetch data from the universities ranking website
2. Parse the HTML table
3. Save the data to universities.csv in the project directory
4. Display a preview of the first 5 entries

Output

The generated universities.csv file contains the following columns:

• Rank: Position in the ranking (1-1000)
• University: Name of the university
• City: City where the university is located
• Country: Country where the university is located
• Website: University website URL
• Index: Ranking index score (0-999)

Dependencies

• axios: HTTP client for fetching web pages
• cheerio: HTML parsing and manipulation
• csv-writer: CSV file creation

Example Output

Rank,University,City,Country,Website,Index
1,Harvard University,Cambridge,United States of America,https://...,998
2,Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),Cambridge,United States of America,https://...,997
3,Stanford University,Stanford,United States of America,https://...,995
...

Notes

• The scraper includes a User-Agent header to ensure proper access to the website
• If the website structure changes, the selectors in index.js may need to be updated
• Please be respectful of the website's resources and avoid excessive requests