Healthcare Facilities Scraper – Pharmacies, Clinics, Doctors & Dentists (OpenStreetMap)

Extract healthcare facilities from OpenStreetMap by area, radius, or name — no API key, no medical-directory subscription, no anti-bot battles. Open, legal (ODbL) data you can redistribute. Public facility listings only — no patient data.

Give it an area like "Manchester, United Kingdom" and get back tidy rows for every pharmacy, doctor's surgery, dentist, clinic, hospital and nursing home: name, facility type, speciality, dispensing, emergency flag, operator, full address, coordinates, contact, and the raw OpenStreetMap tags. You can also search around a point (every clinic within X km) or filter by name (e.g. every "Boots" pharmacy).

Why use this scraper?

• Healthcare-specific fields. Beyond a generic POI dump — facility_type, normalized healthcare, speciality, dispensing (pharmacies) and emergency are parsed out of the OpenStreetMap tags.
• Legal & open. OpenStreetMap data is ODbL-licensed — redistributable with attribution. Facility listings, not patient/PII data. No login.
• No API key. No medical-data provider account, no quota.
• Search by area, radius, or name. A whole city/region, everything within X metres of a point, or every facility of one brand.
• Filter by type. Pharmacies only, or clinics + doctors, etc.
• No duplicates. When OpenStreetMap maps one facility twice (a node and a building outline), you get a single, richer row.
• Honest data. Every value comes straight from OpenStreetMap; anything not mapped is left empty (null) — never guessed.
• Global coverage & reliable. Anywhere OSM has data; retries across multiple Overpass mirrors.

Great for

• Medical / pharmacy / clinic directories and finder apps
• Healthcare market research, coverage and access analysis
• B2B lead lists for healthcare suppliers and services
• Care-access mapping, public-health datasets, AI/RAG pipelines

Input

Field	Type	Description
area	string	Place to search within, e.g. "Manchester, United Kingdom". Geocoded to a bounding box.
aroundLocation	string	(optional) Address/place to search around within a radius. Pair with radiusMeters.
radiusMeters	integer	(optional) Radius in metres for around-a-location search (default 3000).
centerPoint	object	(advanced) Explicit center { "lat":.., "lon":.. } to search around.
boundingBox	object	(advanced) Explicit { "south":.., "west":.., "north":.., "east":.. }. Overrides area.
facilityTypes	array	(optional) Which types to include: pharmacy, doctors, dentist, clinic, hospital, nursing_home. Default: all.
searchTerm	string	(optional) Only return facilities whose name contains this text (case-insensitive), e.g. "Boots".
maxResults	integer	Maximum number of facilities to return (default 1000).

Example input

{
  "area": "Manchester, United Kingdom",
  "facilityTypes": ["pharmacy", "doctors", "dentist", "clinic"],
  "maxResults": 500
}

Every Boots pharmacy within 15 km of a point:

{
  "aroundLocation": "Leeds City Centre",
  "radiusMeters": 15000,
  "facilityTypes": ["pharmacy"],
  "searchTerm": "Boots"
}

Output

One row per facility:

Field	Description
name	Facility name
facility_type	pharmacy / doctors / dentist / clinic / hospital / nursing_home
healthcare	Normalized OSM healthcare value
speciality	Medical speciality (from healthcare:speciality)
dispensing	Pharmacy dispensing flag
emergency	Emergency service flag
operator, brand	Operator (e.g. NHS) and brand/chain
branch	Branch / location name of a chain outlet (e.g. Times Square)
wheelchair	Accessibility
latitude, longitude	Coordinates
street, housenumber, city, postcode, country	Address
state	State / province (addr:state / addr:province); common in US/CA/AU
phone, email, website, opening_hours	Contact + hours
osm_id, osm_type, all_tags, source_url	OpenStreetMap identifiers, raw tags, and link
full_address	All present address parts in one string (e.g. Main St 1, 10115 Berlin)
map_url	Google Maps link to the coordinates

Example output

{
  "name": "Boots",
  "facility_type": "pharmacy",
  "healthcare": "pharmacy",
  "speciality": null,
  "dispensing": "yes",
  "emergency": null,
  "operator": "Boots UK",
  "brand": "Boots",
  "city": "Manchester",
  "postcode": "M1 1AA",
  "country": "GB",
  "phone": "+44 161 000 0000",
  "opening_hours": "Mo-Sa 09:00-18:00",
  "osm_type": "node",
  "source_url": "https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/..."
}

Any field is null when the facility hasn't tagged it in OpenStreetMap — values are never guessed.

FAQ

Do I need an API key or account? No — give it an area (plus optional radius/name filters) and run. No data-provider key, no quota, no setup.

Is the data legal to use and redistribute? Yes. It comes from OpenStreetMap under the Open Database License (ODbL): public data you can redistribute with attribution (© OpenStreetMap contributors). No logins, no Terms-of-Service violations.

How is this different from a Google Maps scraper? It uses open OpenStreetMap data instead of scraping a site behind anti-bot defenses and Terms of Service — so it's legal, needs no API key, and returns an honest null for anything OSM hasn't mapped instead of guessing. It returns facility data only (type, speciality, contact) — no patient or personal data.

How much does it cost? Pay-per-result: $3 per 1,000 results — you only pay for the rows you actually get.

Which countries does it cover? Worldwide — anywhere OpenStreetMap has data.

How fresh is the data? It's pulled live from OpenStreetMap at run time, so it reflects the current map.

Data source & license

Data comes from OpenStreetMap via the public Nominatim (geocoding) and Overpass (querying) APIs. OpenStreetMap data is © OpenStreetMap contributors, licensed under the Open Database License (ODbL). If you publish or redistribute results, attribute "© OpenStreetMap contributors".

Notes

• Coverage and tag richness vary by region — OSM is community-mapped, so cities are richer than rural areas.
• This returns facility information (names, addresses, phones, specialities) — not individual practitioners or any patient data.

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