India Lawyer Directory Scraper (LawRato)

Extract lawyer and advocate profiles from LawRato — India's largest consumer legal directory. Browse by city or practice area, or pull complete profiles. No account, login, or API key needed.

Why use this actor

• Structured legal lead data for India — name, city and neighbourhood, rating, number of user ratings, and years in practice for every listed advocate
• Full profiles when you need depth — bar council of enrolment and enrolment year, practice areas with their skill lists, specific services offered, courts the lawyer appears before, languages spoken, verified badge and public Q&A activity
• Two ways to slice the directory — 16 cities (Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Chennai, Kolkata, Pune, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Jaipur, Lucknow, Nagpur, Chandigarh, Faridabad, Ghaziabad, Gurgaon, Noida) or 30 practice areas (divorce, criminal, property, corporate, tax, cyber crime, immigration, GST…)
• One-click enrichment — list a city, then optionally fetch every lawyer's full profile in the same run
• Honest about counts — upstream publishes rating counts in rounded buckets ("100+"), and the output flags that explicitly instead of pretending it's exact
• Stable JSON output for CRMs, lead pipelines or spreadsheets, with automatic retries — no scrapers or browsers to babysit

How it works

Pick a mode:

1. directory — list lawyers across all of India, or narrowed to one city or one practiceArea. Pages are followed automatically up to your maxItems. Turn on enrichProfiles to also fetch each lawyer's full profile.
2. profile — full detail for specific lawyer pages, by address or bare slug.
3. reference — the live list of cities and practice areas you can pass to directory.

Input

Every lawyer in Delhi:

{
  "mode": "directory",
  "city": "delhi",
  "maxItems": 100,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Divorce lawyers nationwide, with full profiles:

{
  "mode": "directory",
  "practiceArea": "divorce",
  "enrichProfiles": true,
  "maxItems": 60,
  "maxConcurrency": 4
}

One profile:

{
  "mode": "profile",
  "profileUrl": "https://lawrato.com/advocate-sunil-kumar-bakshi"
}

Field	Type	Description
mode	string	directory, profile, or reference.
city	string	directory: one of the 16 cities, or blank for all India.
practiceArea	string	directory: one of the 30 practice areas. If both city and practiceArea are set, the city wins (they are separate listings upstream).
enrichProfiles	boolean	directory: also fetch each listed lawyer's full profile.
profileUrl / profileUrls	string / array	profile: profile address or bare slug.
maxItems	integer	directory: max lawyers to list (20 per page, followed automatically).
maxConcurrency	integer	How many profiles to fetch in parallel (default 4).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify Proxy settings; Residential on by default.

Output

directory mode — real output:

{
  "_input": "area:divorce",
  "_source": "S1-html",
  "_scrapedAt": "2026-09-08T06:34:22Z",
  "recordType": "LAWYER_CARD",
  "name": "Advocate Madhuri Bakshi",
  "profileUrl": "https://lawrato.com/advocate-madhuri-bakshi",
  "slug": "advocate-madhuri-bakshi",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "ratingCount": 25,
  "ratingCountIsMinimum": true,
  "experienceYears": 11,
  "locality": "Sector 16, Faridabad",
  "imageUrl": "https://lawrato.com/expert_images/thumb/advocate-madhuri-bakshi.jpg",
  "cardText": "Advocate Madhuri Bakshi 4.8 | 25+ user ratings Sector 16, Faridabad 11 years Experience Divorce + 3 more …",
  "_listingScope": "area:divorce"
}

profile mode — real output, arrays truncated:

{
  "recordType": "LAWYER_PROFILE",
  "name": "Advocate Sunil Kumar Bakshi",
  "profileUrl": "https://lawrato.com/advocate-sunil-kumar-bakshi",
  "isVerified": true,
  "rating": 4.9,
  "ratingCount": 100,
  "city": "Faridabad",
  "experienceYears": 39,
  "languages": ["English", "Hindi", "Punjabi"],
  "practiceAreas": [
    "Family Law",
    "Divorce, Family, Wills / Trusts, Child Custody, Domestic Violence, Succession Certificate, Court Marriage, Dowry Case",
    "… 14 more"
  ],
  "specializations": [
    "File for Divorce",
    "Reply / Send Legal Notice for Divorce",
    "Contest / Appeal in Divorce Case",
    "… more"
  ],
  "courts": ["Delhi High Court", "District Court, Faridabad", "… 4 more"],
  "barCouncil": "Bar Council of Punjab and Haryana",
  "enrolledYear": 1987,
  "answeredQuestions": 25
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	LAWYER_CARD, LAWYER_PROFILE, CITY, or PRACTICE_AREA.
name	string	Lawyer's name as published.
profileUrl	string	Public profile address.
rating	number	Average user rating out of 5.
ratingCount	integer	Number of user ratings — a floor when ratingCountIsMinimum is true.
experienceYears	integer	Years in practice.
locality / city	string	Neighbourhood + city (listing) / city (profile).
isVerified	boolean	Whether the directory marks the lawyer verified.
languages	array	Languages spoken.
practiceAreas	array	Practice area groups with their skill lists.
specializations	array	Specific services offered.
courts	array	Courts the lawyer appears before.
barCouncil / enrolledYear	string / integer	Bar council of enrolment and year.
answeredQuestions	integer	Public Q&A answers.
_error / _errorDetail	string	Present only when a page could not be fetched.

Notes & limits

• Listing pages hold 20 lawyers. maxItems decides how many pages are walked; the run stops early when a page comes back short.
• City and practice area cannot be combined — the source has no combined listing. Run one axis, or run twice.
• Rating counts are buckets. "100+ user ratings" is published instead of an exact figure, so ratingCount is a minimum whenever ratingCountIsMinimum is true.
• Phone numbers are not published on the public pages — the directory routes contact through its own call/chat buttons, so no phone field is emitted rather than a fabricated one.
• Contact details that do appear are business contact information for practising professionals, published by the directory itself.