# Healthgrades Doctor & Provider Scraper (`parseforge/healthgrades-scraper`) Actor

Collect comprehensive healthcare provider data from Healthgrades including doctor profiles, patient ratings and reviews, specialties, board certifications, education, practice locations, accepted insurance plans, and contact details for research, analysis, and provider evaluation.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/healthgrades-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Automation, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 11 total users, 2 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

Pay per event

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## 🏥 Healthgrades Doctor & Provider Scraper

> 🚀 **Pull US doctor and healthcare provider data from Healthgrades in minutes.** Profiles, ratings, reviews, specialties, certifications, locations, insurance. No login.

Pull live healthcare-provider data from Healthgrades, the largest US doctor-finder platform. The actor accepts a search query (specialty, condition, or doctor name) plus a location, walks the result pages, and returns one structured record per provider ready for healthtech, recruiting, market analysis, or patient-experience research.

Every run fetches data live so you get the current state of Healthgrades at run time. Records include the provider name, photo, specialty, board certifications, education, practice locations, hospital affiliations, accepted insurance plans, patient rating, review count, conditions treated, procedures performed, awards, and a back-reference URL.

| 👥 Built for | 🎯 Primary use cases |
|---|---|
| Healthtech and SaaS sales | Source provider prospects for healthtech outreach |
| Healthcare recruiting | Find specialists by condition and location |
| Insurance and benefits | Validate provider networks |
| Market researchers | Map specialty density by region |
| Lead-gen and CRM | Build provider contact lists |
| Hospital systems | Track competitor hires and ratings |

### 📋 What the Healthgrades Scraper does

- 🩺 **Specialty/condition search.** Search by specialty (cardiologist), condition, or doctor name.
- 📍 **Location filter.** City + state or ZIP code.
- 🔗 **Direct URL.** Pass a Healthgrades search URL for ad-hoc scraping.
- 🩺 **Provider profile.** Specialty, board certifications, education, hospital affiliations.
- ⭐ **Patient ratings.** Average rating and review count from patients.
- 🏥 **Practice details.** Practice locations, accepted insurance plans, conditions treated, procedures performed.

The scraper walks Healthgrades' results, optionally fetches each provider's full profile, and pushes structured records to the dataset.

> 💡 **Why it matters:** Healthgrades is the canonical US provider directory but its UI is paginated and lacks bulk export. A live, structured pull beats manual lookup for healthtech sales, recruiting, and market research.

### 📊 Data fields

Each record includes: `aboutMe`, `acceptingNewPatients`, `age`, `availability`, `distance`, `gender`, `imageUrl`, `name`, `npi`, `patientSatisfactionScore`, `practiceLocations`, `primaryOfficeName`, `profileUrl`, `rating`, `reviewCount`, `scrapedAt`, `specialistDescriptions`, `specialty`, `telehealth`, `yearsExperience`. All 20 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

> ⚠️ **Good to Know:** Healthgrades blocks non-US traffic. Default residential proxies handle this. Turning off includeDetails makes runs much faster.

### 🚀 How to use

1. 📝 **Sign up.** [Create a free account with $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp) (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 **Open the Actor.** Go to the Healthgrades Doctor & Provider Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 **Set search.** Enter a specialty/condition and location, optionally toggle includeDetails.
4. 🚀 **Run it.** Click **Start** and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 **Download.** Grab your results in the **Dataset** tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

> ⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: **3-5 minutes.** No coding required.

### 🔗 Recommended Actors

- [**🏥 Doximity Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/doximity-scraper) - US medical professional directory
- [**🏥 Florida MQA Licensee Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/florida-mqa-scraper) - Florida medical license records
- [**🏥 Florida DFS Licensee Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/florida-dfs-licensee-scraper) - Florida professional licenses
- [**🏥 Cost Plus Drugs Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/costplusdrugs-scraper) - Cost Plus Drugs catalog and pricing
- [**🩺 ClinicalTrials.gov Scraper**](https://apify.com/parseforge/clinicaltrials-gov-scraper) - U.S. clinical trial database

> 💡 **Pro Tip:** browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) for more reference-data scrapers.

> ⚠️ **Disclaimer.** This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Healthgrades. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. The scraper accesses only publicly available pages and is intended for legitimate research, analytics, and lead-generation use. Users are responsible for compliance with the source site's Terms of Service, applicable privacy laws (such as HIPAA), and any data-protection rules that apply.

### 🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

For faster answers, join our [Discord](https://parseforge.co/discord). It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrl` (type: `string`):

Direct Healthgrades search URL. If provided, Search Query and Location are ignored.

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

How many providers to collect per run.

## `searchQuery` (type: `string`):

What to search for (e.g. 'cardiologist', 'dentist', 'Dr. John Smith').

## `location` (type: `string`):

City and state or ZIP code (e.g. 'Miami, FL', '10001'). Used together with Search Query.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Visits each provider's profile page to collect education, certifications, hospitals, insurance, conditions, procedures, awards, languages, and patient reviews. Slower but much richer data.

## `maxConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of parallel requests. Lower this if you experience rate limiting.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "searchQuery": "cardiologist",
  "location": "New York, NY",
  "includeDetails": false,
  "maxConcurrency": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset with all scraped items

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "searchQuery": "cardiologist",
    "location": "New York, NY"
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/healthgrades-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "maxItems": 10,
    "searchQuery": "cardiologist",
    "location": "New York, NY",
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/healthgrades-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 10,
  "searchQuery": "cardiologist",
  "location": "New York, NY"
}' |
apify call parseforge/healthgrades-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/healthgrades-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/qo3IPjNcYjwBrSMFx/builds/kRk0cEhgi8FoWPPVp/openapi.json