Practo Doctor & Clinic Scraper

Scrape doctor and clinic listings from Practo.com — India's largest healthcare platform with 100,000+ verified doctor profiles across 20+ cities and all major medical specialties. No subscription, login, or API key required.

Data Source Note: This actor originally targeted Doctolib (doctolib.fr), a French doctor-booking platform. Doctolib serves all search results via internal XHR endpoints that return 400/404 errors from non-browser clients; the main listing page HTML contains only i18n translation strings, not doctor data. Practo.com was selected as a freely accessible replacement: doctor listings embed full schema.org Physician LD+JSON blocks directly in the HTML with no authentication or anti-bot barriers.

What you can do with this actor

• Collect doctor profiles from any Indian city and medical specialty
• Get verified physician data including name, clinic, consultation fee, and geo-coordinates
• Access address details: street, locality, postal code, region, and country
• Retrieve direct profile URLs for every doctor
• Filter by 20 cities and 20 medical specialties

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
city	Select	Yes	mumbai	Indian city to search (see dropdown)
specialty	Select	Yes	general-physician	Medical specialty to filter by
maxItems	Integer	No	50	Maximum number of records to return (1–500)

City options

Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Chandigarh, Surat, Nagpur, Indore, Bhopal, Coimbatore, Kochi, Visakhapatnam, Bhubaneswar, Guwahati

Specialty options

General Physician, Dentist, Dermatologist, Pediatrician, Cardiologist, Orthopedist, Gynecologist & Obstetrician, Ophthalmologist, ENT Specialist, Neurologist, Psychiatrist, Urologist, Gastroenterologist, Endocrinologist, Pulmonologist, Nephrologist, Oncologist, Rheumatologist, Physiotherapist, Dietitian & Nutritionist

Example input

{
  "city": "mumbai",
  "specialty": "cardiologist",
  "maxItems": 100
}

Output

Each record corresponds to one doctor profile.

Field	Type	Description
name	String	Doctor's full name
city	String	City slug (e.g. mumbai)
specialty	String	Specialty slug used in the search
profileUrl	String	Direct link to the doctor's Practo profile
imageUrl	String	Doctor's profile photo URL
streetAddress	String	Clinic street address
postalCode	String	Clinic postal code
locality	String	Locality / neighbourhood
region	String	State/region (e.g. Maharashtra)
country	String	Country code (e.g. IN)
latitude	Number	Clinic latitude coordinate
longitude	Number	Clinic longitude coordinate
consultationFee	String	Consultation fee (e.g. 500, ₹800)
clinicName	String	Name of the associated clinic
clinicUrl	String	Link to the clinic's Practo page
medicalSpecialties	Array	Medical specialties listed in the doctor's schema
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp of scrape time

Example output record

{
  "name": "Dr. Ravi Kumar",
  "city": "mumbai",
  "specialty": "general-physician",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.practo.com/mumbai/doctor/ravi-kumar-general-physician",
  "imageUrl": "https://assets.practo.com/doctor/image.jpg",
  "streetAddress": "123 MG Road",
  "postalCode": "400001",
  "locality": "Mumbai",
  "region": "Maharashtra",
  "country": "IN",
  "latitude": 19.076,
  "longitude": 72.8777,
  "consultationFee": "500",
  "clinicName": "Ravi Kumar Clinic",
  "clinicUrl": "https://www.practo.com/mumbai/clinic/ravi-kumar-clinic",
  "medicalSpecialties": ["General Practice"],
  "scrapedAt": "2026-06-04T10:30:00.000000+00:00"
}

How it works

1. The actor fetches paginated listing pages from practo.com/{city}/{specialty} (up to 15 pages)
2. Each page contains embedded schema.org Physician LD+JSON blocks in the HTML
3. All doctor data is extracted directly from these structured data blocks — no DOM parsing hacks needed
4. Records are pushed to the Apify dataset after removing any null or empty fields
5. Polite delays (1–2 s) between page requests avoid overloading the server

Performance

• Speed: ~10–12 doctors per page, ~10–15 pages per city/specialty
• Reliability: Automatic retry with exponential backoff on 429/5xx responses (up to 5 retries)
• No proxy needed — Practo.com is publicly accessible without bot-detection barriers

Frequently Asked Questions

Does this actor require login or an API key? No. Practo.com doctor listings are fully public. No credentials of any kind are required.

Why Practo instead of Doctolib? Doctolib (doctolib.fr) serves all doctor search results via JavaScript-rendered XHR calls to internal endpoints that return HTTP 400/404 errors when called from a scraper. The visible HTML of Doctolib listing pages contains only i18n translation data — no doctor names, addresses, or contact information. Practo.com provides equivalent structured healthcare data embedded directly in publicly-accessible HTML as schema.org Physician blocks.

How many doctors can I scrape per run? Typical results: 10–12 doctors per page, up to 15 pages = ~150+ records per city/specialty combination. Set maxItems up to 500.

Which Indian cities are supported? 20 major cities including Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Kolkata, and more.

How accurate is the consultation fee data? Fees are sourced directly from Practo's structured data and reflect the online consultation fee listed at time of scraping.

Does the data include geo-coordinates? Yes — latitude and longitude are included when available from the schema.org Physician block, enabling map-based analysis.

How fresh is the data? Data is scraped live from Practo at run time and reflects the current state of the platform.