Healthgrades Doctor Scraper

Overview

The Healthgrades Doctor Scraper extracts physician profile data from Healthgrades.com, one of the largest online directories for finding and researching healthcare providers in the United States. This actor searches for doctors by specialty and location, then extracts detailed profile information including names, ratings, review counts, hospital affiliations, accepted insurance plans, education background, board certifications, office addresses, and phone numbers.

Features

• Search for doctors by medical specialty across any US location
• Extract comprehensive physician profile information from Healthgrades
• Retrieve patient ratings and review counts for each provider
• Collect hospital affiliation and insurance plan acceptance data
• Access education history and board certification details
• Office address and phone number extraction for contact information
• Automatic pagination through search result pages
• Works with empty input using default specialties (cardiologist, dermatologist) and location (Dallas, TX)
• Export results in JSON, CSV, Excel, or other formats via Apify datasets

Input Configuration

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
specialties	array	Medical specialties to search	["cardiologist", "dermatologist"]
location	string	City and state to search	"Dallas, TX"
maxResults	integer	Maximum profiles per specialty	50

Output Format

Each result contains the following fields:

• name - Full name of the physician
• specialty - Medical specialty
• rating - Patient rating score
• reviewCount - Number of patient reviews
• hospitalAffiliations - Affiliated hospitals
• insuranceAccepted - Insurance plans accepted
• education - Medical education background
• boardCertifications - Board certification details
• officeAddress - Primary office address
• phone - Office phone number
• url - Direct link to the Healthgrades profile
• scrapedAt - ISO timestamp of when the data was collected

Use Cases

This actor is useful for healthcare market researchers, patient acquisition teams, medical practice consultants, and insurance companies. Common applications include competitive analysis of physicians in a market, building provider directories, analyzing patient satisfaction trends, identifying doctors by insurance acceptance, and generating leads for healthcare marketing campaigns.

Pricing

This actor uses a pay-per-event pricing model. You are charged $0.75 per 1,000 results delivered. There are no additional platform fees beyond compute costs.

Limitations

• Healthgrades may implement anti-bot measures that affect data collection; the actor includes retry logic
• Some profile fields may be incomplete if doctors have not fully populated their Healthgrades profiles
• Insurance acceptance information may not be fully current as providers update their panels
• The actor scrapes publicly available data only; premium or behind-login content is not accessible
• Rating and review counts reflect Healthgrades data and may differ from other review platforms

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