FFN Swimming Clubs · French Directory

Export French swimming club contacts from the public FFN (Fédération Française de Natation) directory. Pick a department (or nationwide) and get one row per club: name, address, published email, phone, GPS, website and activity labels.

No login. No API key. No federation account.

Who is this for?

You are…	Typical goal	Suggested setup
Pool equipment or swimwear brand	Prospect list of FFN clubs	One department first, then All departments
Event or competition organiser	Clubs that can host or relay a meet	Your département + neighbouring codes
Agency / outbound	CRM feed with email, phone and website	Overview or Outreach CRM view
Local authority / school sport	Territory map of swimming clubs	One code, then neighbours
Data / ops	Scheduled master table of the federation	departments: ["ALL"], maxItems: 0

What you get by default. Club name, department, address, GPS, finder URL and labels when the directory has them. Email and phone only when the federation published them. Generic federation mailboxes are omitted. This Actor never invents a mailbox.

When to go nationwide. Use All departments on a paid plan with maxItems: 0. Corsica (2A / 2B) and overseas departments (including Réunion 974) are included.

How to use

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console.
2. Pick one or more departments, or All departments.
3. Keep Max clubs at 20 for a first run (Free plan is always 20 per run). Set 0 on a paid plan for a full export of the selection.
4. Click Start. Rows appear in the Dataset while the run is still listing other departments.

Ready-made examples (published tasks)

Example	Best for
Find Paris swimming clubs with published contacts	First run / Île-de-France
Rhône swimming clubs, CRM-ready emails and phones	CRM import
La Réunion FFN swimming club directory	Overseas department
Find Ain swimming clubs from the FFN directory	B2B test / Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes

What it extracts

Category	Fields
Identity	Club name, FFN club id
Location	Department, town, postcode, address, GPS
Contact	Email and phone when published
Web	Club website when published
Labels	Federation activity tags (e.g. water-polo)
Finder	Link to ffnatation.fr/trouver-un-club

Typical coverage

On a 20-club Paris export, every row has a club name, department and finder URL. Email, phone, website and GPS follow what the federation shows — empty when the club did not publish them.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Notes
departments	array	["75"]	Department codes, or ALL for nationwide including Corsica. Omitted = Paris. Empty array = nationwide.
maxItems	integer	20	0 = no row ceiling. Free plan: 20 / run.

API-only keys

Not shown on the Console form. Safe defaults are already in code.

Key	Type	Default	Notes
delayBetweenRequests	integer	80	Pause between catalog pages (ms)

Examples

Paris (Try):

{ "departments": ["75"], "maxItems": 20 }

Nationwide, paid plan, no row ceiling:

{ "departments": ["ALL"], "maxItems": 0 }

Output sample

Download in JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the Dataset tab.

{
  "clubId": "54363120",
  "structureName": "CLUB DES NAGEURS DE PARIS",
  "departmentNumber": "75",
  "town": "Paris",
  "postalCode": "75012",
  "address": "34 Bd Carnot",
  "latitude": 48.841654,
  "longitude": 2.412718,
  "contactEmail": "secretariat@cnparis.org",
  "contactPhone": "01 44 73 81 11",
  "website": "https://cnparis.org/",
  "labels": "eau-libre, enf, label-argent, nagez-forme-bien-être, nagez-forme-santé, natation-course, water-polo",
  "url": "https://www.ffnatation.fr/trouver-un-club"
}

How it works

1. Reads the public FFN club finder for the selected departments.
2. Keeps clubs whose postcode maps to that department (Réunion is 974, not 97; Corsica is 2A / 2B).
3. Deduplicates clubs by name within each department.
4. Writes each row to the dataset as soon as it is complete.

How much does it cost to scrape FFN clubs?

HTTP-only — no browser. You pay pay-per-event on the Store: about $0.00749 per exported club plus a negligible run start.

Scenario	Approx. cost
20 clubs (Try / Free plan)	~$0.15
1,000 clubs	~$7.49
Full selection with maxItems: 0	$0.00749 × clubs exported

Is scraping FFN free?

Apify Free plan users get 20 clubs per run. Paid plans follow PPE and your max charge. Compute is cheap because this Actor does not launch a browser.

Is it legal to scrape FFN?

This Actor only accesses data that FFN makes publicly available in its club directory. As with any data containing personal information, ensure your use complies with GDPR and relevant regulations.

Local development

cd ffn-clubs-scraper
npm install
apify run --input-file=./.actor/INPUT.json

storage/key_value_stores/default/INPUT.json must satisfy the input schema, or pass --input-file. On local apify run, platform/CLI input overwrites overlapping keys from a root input.json.

Support

Contact corentin@outreacher.fr if you need a custom scraper or tailored automation.

Also available

Also available as a pack: France Sports Clubs hub — merge several federations into one dataset.

Same job (French department → published club contacts). One Actor per federation.

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