Indiana PLA Scraper

What does Indiana PLA Scraper do?

Indiana PLA Scraper enables you to extract professional licensing and e-verification data from the Indiana Professional Licensing Agency Search Portal more efficiently than manual searches.

Indiana PLA Scraper can scrape:

• Professional license details (name, license number, profession, license type)
• License status and validity information (issue dates, expiration dates)
• Licensee location data (address, city, county, state, zip code)
• Licensing method and verification details
• Full-page screenshots of licensee detail pages with timestamp verification
• Results across multiple search parameters (name, license number, profession, location, DBA)

Why scrape Indiana Professional Licensing Agency?

The Indiana PLA Search Portal contains verified professional licensing records for thousands of healthcare professionals, behavior analysts, nurses, and other licensed practitioners across Indiana. This data is essential for compliance, verification, and background checking purposes.

Here are just some of the ways you could use this data:

• Compliance verification - Verify that professionals on your team maintain active, current licenses
• Background screening - Conduct thorough credential checks during hiring or onboarding processes
• Risk management - Audit your organization's professional credentials and maintain compliance records
• Business intelligence - Track licensing trends across professions and geographic regions in Indiana
• Automated reporting - Generate scheduled reports of licensee status changes for regulatory audits

If you would like more inspiration on how scraping professional licensing data could help your business or organization, check out our industry pages.

How to scrape Indiana Professional Licensing Agency

It's easy to scrape professional licensing data from Indiana PLA with Indiana PLA Scraper. Just follow these few steps and you'll get your data in a few minutes.

1. Click on Try for free.
2. Enter your search criteria - first name, last name, license number, profession, or other available filters.
3. Optionally enable Save Screenshot to capture verified detail pages, and ensure Residential Proxies are enabled under proxy configuration.
4. Click on Run.
5. When Indiana PLA Scraper has finished, preview or download your data from the Dataset tab in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or HTML format.

How much will it cost to scrape Indiana Professional Licensing Agency?

This Actor is currently configured under the Pay-Per-Event + Platform Usage billing model:

• Actor Start: $0.02 per run start
• Result: $0.01 per scraped result in the dataset
• Screenshot: $0.02 per detail page screenshot captured

[!NOTE] Important Note on Pricing Changes: We are actively working on getting the pricing balanced to cover platform compute usage costs. We anticipate making pricing adjustments in the near future to transition to a flat Pay-Per-Event only model, which will allow us to turn off separate billing for platform usage entirely.

For platform computing and proxy usage under the current model: Apify gives you $5 free usage credits every month on the Apify Free plan. Depending on the number of records you need to verify, you may be able to complete your verification task completely free!

Since this Actor requires Residential Proxies to bypass Indiana PLA's datacenter IP restrictions, please note that proxy usage represents an additional cost. If you need to regularly scrape large batches of professional licenses, we recommend our $49/month Starter plan, which includes both compute credits and proxy allowances.

For high-volume verification needs, the Scale plan at $499/month provides substantial resources for enterprise-level compliance and background screening operations.

Input Parameters

Configure the Actor using the following parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
First Name	String	First name of the professional to search for	Jane
Last Name	String	Last name of the professional to search for	Doe
License Number	String	Specific license number to look up	None
Profession	String	Profession or license type (e.g., Behavior Analyst, Nursing)	None
License Status	String	Filter results by status	All
State	String	State abbreviation filter	--All--
City	String	City filter	None
County	String	County filter	None
Zip Code	String	Zip code filter	None
DBA	String	Doing Business As name	None
Exact Match	Boolean	Strictly match exact name provided (case-insensitive)	true
Save Screenshot	Boolean	Capture full-page detail screenshots and save to Key-Value Store	false
Proxy Configuration	Object	Configure rotating proxies (Residential Proxies recommended)	Apify Proxy (Residential Default)

Results

Here is a sample of the data that the Actor produces:

{
  "name_from_search": "Doe, Jane",
  "license_no": "12345678A",
  "profession": "Behavior Analyst",
  "license_type": "Licensed Behavior Analyst",
  "status": "Active",
  "address": "Indianapolis IN  46204",
  "name": "Jane Doe",
  "city_state_zip": "Indianapolis IN  46204",
  "county": "Marion",
  "lic_no": "12345678A",
  "type": "Licensed Behavior Analyst",
  "issued": "10/15/2024",
  "expiration": "12/31/2026",
  "method": "Application",
  "detail_url": "https://mylicense.in.gov/EVerification/Details.aspx?result=00000000-0000-0000-0000-000000000000",
  "screenshot_url": "https://api.apify.com/v2/key-value-stores/YOUR_STORE_ID/records/screenshot_doejane_12345678a"
}

Tips for scraping Indiana Professional Licensing Agency

• Enable Residential Proxies - Indiana PLA blocks datacenter IP addresses. Always run this Actor with Apify Residential Proxies enabled to avoid ERR_CONNECTION_REFUSED errors and ensure reliable data extraction.
• Allocate sufficient memory - This Actor uses a headless browser (Playwright) to fill forms and capture screenshots. We recommend running with at least 2048 MB (2 GB) of memory for optimal performance.
• Use Exact Match for precision - When searching by name, enable the "Exact Match" option to filter out partial matches and focus only on exact name results.
• Schedule regular audits - Set up recurring runs to maintain up-to-date compliance records and track license status changes over time.
• Combine search parameters - Use multiple search fields together (e.g., name + city) to narrow results and reduce unnecessary API calls.

Is it legal to scrape Indiana Professional Licensing Agency?

Note that personal data is protected by GDPR in the European Union and by other regulations around the world. You should not scrape personal data unless you have a legitimate reason to do so. If you're unsure whether your reason is legitimate, consult your lawyers.

The Indiana PLA portal is a public government resource designed for license verification purposes. However, you should ensure your use case complies with applicable laws and regulations regarding professional credential data.

We also recommend that you read our blog post: is web scraping legal?.