Healthgrades Doctor Scraper — 30+ Fields, $3/1K

🏥 Extract US Doctor & Provider Data from Healthgrades.com

Get comprehensive healthcare provider data with 30+ fields including patient reviews, insurance plans, board certifications, hospital affiliations, and more.

Perfect for: Healthcare marketing, lead generation, insurance network research, provider reputation monitoring, and market research.

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✨ What You Get

Each doctor profile includes:

• Basic Info: Full name, credentials (MD/DO/DMD/etc), specialty, gender
• Ratings: Star rating (1-5), total review count
• Contact: Phone, fax, full address (street, city, state, ZIP)
• Practice: Practice name, accepting new patients, telehealth availability
• Medical: Board certifications, conditions treated, procedures performed
• Education: Medical school, training, years in practice
• Insurance: Accepted insurance plans
• Hospital: Hospital affiliations with ratings and awards
• Languages: Languages spoken
• Reviews: Full patient review text with dates and ratings
• Photo: Profile image URL
• Bio: Full biography

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🚀 How to Use (3 Simple Steps)

Step 1: Enter Search Criteria

• Medical Specialty — Type of doctor (e.g., "Dentist", "Cardiologist", "Family Medicine")
• Location — City and State (e.g., "New York, NY") or ZIP code (e.g., "10001")

Step 2: Set Options (Optional)

• Number of Doctors — How many to scrape (default: 50)
• Include Reviews — Whether to extract patient reviews (default: Yes)

Step 3: Click "Start"

• Wait 1-2 minutes for results
• Download data as JSON, CSV, or Excel

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📋 Example Searches

Specialty	Location	Use Case
Dentist	New York, NY	Build dental practice mailing list
Cardiologist	Los Angeles, CA	Find heart specialists for referral
Family Medicine	Chicago, IL	Primary care provider research
Dermatologist	Miami, FL	Skin care clinic lead generation
Orthopedic Surgeon	Houston, TX	Sports medicine outreach
Pediatrician	Phoenix, AZ	Children's healthcare providers

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📊 Sample Output

{
  "name": "Majid Jamali",
  "credentials": "DMD",
  "specialty": "PlasticSurgery",
  "rating": 4.832,
  "reviewCount": 81,
  "phone": "(212) 235-1529",
  "address": {
    "street": "42 Broadway Ste 1501",
    "city": "New York",
    "state": "NY",
    "zipCode": "10004",
    "fullAddress": "42 Broadway Ste 1501, New York, NY 10004"
  },
  "languages": ["English", "Persian", "Spanish"],
  "acceptingNewPatients": true,
  "offersTelehealth": true,
  "hospitalAffiliations": [
    {
      "name": "Newyork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital",
      "awards": ["America's 250 Best Hospitals Award™ 2026"]
    }
  ],
  "insurancePlans": ["Aetna", "Blue Cross Blue Shield", "Cigna", "UnitedHealthcare"],
  "biography": "Dr. Majid Jamali, DMD is an oral & maxillofacial surgery specialist..."
}

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💰 Pricing

$3.00 per 1,000 results — Pay only for what you use.

Results	Cost	Use Case
50 doctors	~$0.15	Quick research
500 doctors	~$1.50	Local market analysis
1,000 doctors	$3.00	Regional lead list
5,000 doctors	$15.00	State-wide database
10,000 doctors	$30.00	National campaign

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🆚 Why Choose This Scraper?

Feature	This Scraper	Others
Data fields	30+	10-15
Price	$3/1K	$4-20/1K
Patient reviews	✅ Full text	❌ Count only
Insurance plans	✅	❌
Hospital affiliations	✅	❌
Board certifications	✅	❌
Simple input	✅ 4 fields	❌ JSON required
Batch search	✅	❌

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🔧 Technical Details

• Technology: Playwright (headless browser) — bypasses AWS WAF
• Data Source: JSON-LD structured data + HTML parsing
• Speed: ~30-50 seconds per doctor profile
• Proxy: Apify Proxy recommended for large runs
• Concurrency: 2-3 concurrent requests optimal

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📋 Changelog

v1.1.14 (2026-06-13) — Latest

Major: Review extraction rewrite

• ✅ Reviews now extracted from JSON-LD — Most reliable method, gets real patient reviews with dates, ratings, and full text
• ✅ DOM fallback for reviews — When JSON-LD doesn't have reviews, falls back to DOM-based extraction
• ✅ Improved search pagination — Better URL-based pagination, supports up to 50 pages
• ✅ Auto-scroll for lazy loading — Scrolls page to load all search results before extracting
• ✅ "Show more" button clicking — Automatically clicks pagination buttons
• ✅ Extended timeouts — Request timeout increased from 120s to 180s for reliability

v1.1.7 (2026-06-13)

Search results improvement

• ✅ Fixed pagination — Now properly paginates through search results
• ✅ Auto-scroll — Scrolls to load lazy-loaded content
• ✅ Better link extraction — Filters out duplicate and invalid profile links

v1.0.30 (2026-06-01)

Initial stable release

• ✅ Basic doctor profile extraction (30+ fields)
• ✅ JSON-LD data extraction
• ✅ Address, phone, fax extraction
• ✅ Insurance plans extraction
• ✅ Hospital affiliations
• ✅ Board certifications
• ✅ Education and languages
• ✅ Simple input format (specialty + location)
• ✅ Legacy input format (searchQueries array)

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❓ FAQ

Q: How many doctors can I scrape at once? A: Up to 500 per run. For larger datasets, run multiple times with different locations.

Q: Do I need a proxy? A: For small runs (<100 results), no. For larger runs, enable Apify Proxy to avoid rate limits.

Q: What format is the output? A: JSON by default. You can export to CSV or Excel from the Apify Console.

Q: How accurate is the data? A: Data comes directly from Healthgrades.com's structured data (JSON-LD), which is highly accurate.

Q: Can I scrape specific doctor profiles? A: Yes! Use the "startUrls" field in advanced settings to paste specific Healthgrades URLs.

Q: Why are some reviews missing? A: Healthgrades only includes a subset of reviews in their structured data (JSON-LD). Doctors with many reviews may only have a few available in JSON-LD.

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📞 Support

For issues or feature requests, contact through Apify.

📄 Legal

This scraper is for educational and research purposes. Users are responsible for complying with Healthgrades' Terms of Service and applicable laws.