The Knot Wedding Venues & Vendors Scraper

A robust and powerful Apify Actor to scrape wedding vendor and venue profiles from The Knot (theknot.com). Easily extract detailed profiles—including contact information, pricing, ratings, and beautiful gallery images—across any category and location.

Perfect for wedding startups, lead generation, cold outreach, directories, and market research.

Features

• Any Category: Scrape venues, photographers, planners, caterers, florists, DJs, and 20+ other vendor types.
• Location Based: Search by any City/State combination (e.g. "Austin, TX") or State level.
• Deep Data Extraction: Extracts highly detailed information including:
  • Vendor/Venue Name
  • Contact Info (Website, Phone number, Address)
  • Ratings & Review counts
  • Starting Prices
  • Detailed Descriptions
  • Awards (e.g. "Best of Weddings", "Hall of Fame")
  • High-res primary and gallery images
• Anti-Bot Resilience: Uses advanced Playwright browser fingerprinting, configurable concurrency, and Apify Proxy rotation to ensure reliable extraction.

Use Cases

1. Lead Generation & Cold Outreach: Get a complete list of local vendors (e.g. all photographers in Austin, TX) with their contact info and starting prices to personalize your outreach.
2. Directory Building: Aggregate wedding reception venues across a state or major metro to power an internal CRM or comparison site.
3. Market Research: Pull data on various vendor categories to analyze pricing trends, reviews, and competitive landscape.

Input Parameters

The Actor can be driven either by providing explicit Start URLs or by using the built-in Search/Filter builder.

Field	Type	Description	Default
startUrls	Array	One or more The Knot marketplace URLs to start crawling. Overrides category/location.	[]
category	String	The type of entity to scrape (e.g., wedding-reception-venues, wedding-photographers, etc.).	wedding-reception-venues
location	String	Geographic filter: city and state (e.g., "Austin, TX") or state only.	Empty
maxResults	Integer	Maximum number of venue/vendor items to scrape and save.	500
maxPages	Integer	Maximum number of listing pages to scroll through/crawl.	20
scrapeDetailPages	Boolean	If true, visits each profile to get full data. If false, extracts basic listing data only.	true
useApifyProxy	Boolean	Highly recommended to remain true to avoid IP bans.	true

Example Input

{
  "category": "wedding-photographers",
  "location": "Austin, TX",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "maxPages": 5,
  "scrapeDetailPages": true,
  "useApifyProxy": true
}

Output Data Structure

The dataset produced contains one item per venue or vendor. Example output:

{
  "entityType": "vendor",
  "category": "wedding-photographers",
  "url": "https://www.theknot.com/marketplace/j-bell-photography-austin-tx-593283",
  "name": "J. Bell Photography",
  "description": "J. Bell Photography is a Wedding Photographer in Austin, TX...",
  "website": "https://jbellphotography.com",
  "phone": "(512) 555-0123",
  "address": "123 Main St",
  "city": "Austin",
  "state": "TX",
  "imageUrl": "https://media-api.xogrp.com/images/...",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://media-api.xogrp.com/images/...",
    "https://media-api.xogrp.com/images/..."
  ],
  "priceRange": "Prices starting at $2,450",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "reviewCount": 98,
  "awards": "2023 Best of Weddings Winner, Hall of Fame",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.theknot.com/marketplace/j-bell-photography-austin-tx-593283",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-02-20T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Legals

The Actor collects publicly visible data only. Users are responsible for complying with The Knot’s Terms of Service and applicable laws (e.g., CAN-SPAM for email outreach).