Avvo Attorney Scraper - Legal Professional Data

Get attorney profiles from Avvo.com: name, firm and office addresses, phone, practice areas, bar licenses, languages, memberships, awards, rating and review count, and map coordinates.

Avvo sits behind Cloudflare's bot protection, which blocks ordinary scrapers and headless browsers. This actor fetches pages through Firecrawl, so it gets real data without proxies or a browser, and it reads the structured data Avvo publishes on each page instead of guessing at the layout.

Bring your own Firecrawl key. Pages are fetched on your Firecrawl account (get a key at firecrawl.dev). That is why the per-lawyer price here is low: about 1 Firecrawl credit per lawyer with full profiles, 2 credits per firm name searched, and one credit per 20 lawyers if you turn fetchProfiles off.

Note: this actor runs in Demo Mode by default, so a default free run returns sample data. Set demoMode to false to fetch real data.

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Quick Start

Lawyers by keyword or practice area in a city

{
  "demoMode": false,
  "firecrawlApiKey": "fc-YOUR-KEY",
  "searchQueries": ["divorce"],
  "locations": ["Nashville, TN"],
  "maxResults": 25
}

Find a law firm

Avvo's own search matches lawyer names, not firm names. Firm names are found with a web search on avvo.com, and each result says which of the lawyer's offices matched (businessName, businessAddress).

{
  "demoMode": false,
  "firecrawlApiKey": "fc-YOUR-KEY",
  "firmNames": ["DPS Legal Counsel"],
  "locations": ["Brentwood, TN"],
  "maxResults": 5
}

Specific profiles

{
  "demoMode": false,
  "firecrawlApiKey": "fc-YOUR-KEY",
  "startUrls": ["https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/37027-tn-daniel-smith-1701728.html"]
}

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
firecrawlApiKey	string	-	Required (except in Demo Mode). Your Firecrawl API key.
searchQueries	array	-	Names or keywords to search for (e.g. "smith", "divorce"). Each is searched in every location.
locations	array	-	Cities, as "Nashville, TN" or "nashville-tn". A location on its own lists that city's lawyers.
practiceAreas	array	-	Practice areas to search for (e.g. "personal-injury", "family").
firmNames	array	-	Law firm names to find.
startUrls	array	-	Avvo profile URLs to fetch directly.
maxResults	integer	20	Most lawyers per query and location (Avvo lists 20 per page).
fetchProfiles	boolean	true	Read each lawyer's profile for practice areas, licenses, languages, offices, rating and reviews. Off returns only what the search page lists (name, address, phone).
demoMode	boolean	true	Return sample data without fetching anything.

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Output

Each lawyer is one dataset item:

{
  "name": "Sarah Mitchell",
  "firmName": "Mitchell & Associates, PLLC",
  "offices": [{ "name": "Mitchell & Associates, PLLC", "address": "1201 3rd Ave Suite 2200, Seattle, WA, 98101" }],
  "address": "1201 3rd Ave Suite 2200, Seattle, WA 98101",
  "streetAddress": "1201 3rd Ave Suite 2200",
  "city": "Seattle",
  "state": "WA",
  "zipCode": "98101",
  "phone": "(206) 555-1234",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviewCount": 42,
  "practiceAreas": ["Personal Injury", "Car Accidents"],
  "barAdmissions": ["Licensed Attorney - Washington"],
  "languages": ["English"],
  "memberships": [],
  "awards": [],
  "latitude": 47.6062,
  "longitude": -122.3321,
  "profileUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/98101-wa-sarah-mitchell-example.html"
}

(Sample record with made-up values.)

Some lawyers keep their phone number off their profile; when the search page lists one, it is used. Firm names come from the lawyer's office list, so they are empty when Avvo shows none.

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Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event billing:

Event	Description	Price
Actor Start	Once per run	$0.02
Attorney Profile Scraped	Each lawyer saved to the dataset	$0.002

Firecrawl credits are billed by Firecrawl on your own account.

Demo mode is free: no charges for sample data. A run stops when it reaches the spending limit you set for it.

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Troubleshooting

No results

• A firm search returns nothing when no Avvo profile mentions that firm name. Try the lawyer's name in searchQueries instead.
• Check that locations are US cities with a state, e.g. "Austin, TX".

"Add your Firecrawl API key"

Set firecrawlApiKey. Demo Mode is the only way to run without one.

"Firecrawl rejected the API key" or "out of credits"

Check the key in your Firecrawl dashboard, or top up credits there.

How do I test without spending anything?

Leave Demo Mode on. It returns sample data in the same format.

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Built by John Rippy | Actor Arsenal