🩺 AHPRA Health Practitioner Register Scraper: Bulk Check & Watch

Know the moment a practitioner's registration changes, not the next time someone asks Bulk-check and monitor Australian health practitioner registrations from Ahpra's public register. Get registration status, conditions, undertakings, reprimands, and expiry for a whole roster in one run, with a recurring mode that only reports what actually changed since the last check.

📋 Whole roster, one run Check a list of names or registration numbers together instead of one Actor run per practitioner.

🔔 Only real changes, on schedule Recurring monitor mode reports new or changed practitioners since the last check, not a full re-dump every time.

⚠️ Status, conditions & expiry The full public record: registration status, conditions, undertakings, reprimands, endorsements, and expiry date.

🔓 No login required Reads Ahpra's own public register, the same anonymous lookup anyone can use in a browser.

Point this Actor at names or registration numbers on the Ahpra Register of practitioners and pull structured registration data, from a single check to a scheduled watch over a whole roster.

🔍 What does this Actor do?

Ahpra (the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency) keeps the public register of every doctor, nurse, dentist, psychologist, and other registered health practitioner allowed to practise in Australia, over a million people. A registration can change after a practitioner is already placed, credentialed, or insured: a status can lapse or be suspended, a new condition or notation can appear, a registration can simply expire and not renew.

This Actor checks that register for you, in three ways. Look up one practitioner. Check a whole roster in one run. Or turn on Recurring monitor mode and let it re-check a saved roster on a schedule, only reporting practitioners that are new to the roster or whose status genuinely changed since the last check.

💡 Who uses this?

• I run a healthcare staffing agency. I placed someone six months ago. I need to know the day their registration status changes, not the day a client asks me about it.
• I handle credentialing for a hospital or clinic. Re-checking a roster of dozens of practitioners by hand, one search at a time, doesn't scale. I need to check the whole list in one pass.
• I work in insurance or compliance. A suspended or newly restricted practitioner is a liability I need to catch immediately, not discover during an audit.
• I am building a healthcare workforce or verification tool. I need structured, current registration data I can pull into my own system instead of screen-scraping search results by hand.

🚀 How to use

STEP 1 Pick a mode Single lookup, a bulk roster list, or Recurring monitor for scheduled re-checks.

STEP 2 Get the full public record Status, conditions, undertakings, reprimands, endorsements, notations, and expiry per practitioner.

STEP 3 Schedule it and watch for change Name a monitor state and run it on a schedule. Later runs report only what's new or changed.

📥 Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
mode	enum	No	lookup for one practitioner, bulk for a roster list, or monitor for scheduled re-verification that only reports genuine changes. Default: lookup.
query	string	No	Used in Single lookup mode. A practitioner's name or Ahpra registration number.
practitioners	array of strings	No	Used in Bulk and Recurring monitor mode. One name or registration number per line, the roster to check.
fetchDetails	boolean	No	Also fetch each matched practitioner's full public record (status, conditions, undertakings, reprimands, endorsements, notations, expiry, qualifications, location), not just the name and profession summary. Default: true.
maxRosterSize	integer	No	Maximum roster entries processed per run in Bulk or Recurring monitor mode. Default: 10.
maxResultsPerQuery	integer	No	Maximum matched practitioners kept per individual name or number search, since a common surname can match thousands of real entries. Default: 5.
stateName	string	No	Used only in Recurring monitor mode. Names the saved history this run compares against. Use a different name per distinct roster so separate schedules never mix up their history. Default: default.
onlyNewOrChanged	boolean	No	Used only in Recurring monitor mode. When on, only new or genuinely changed practitioners are output. When off, every roster entry is output every run with a change label attached. Default: true.
proxyConfiguration	proxy	No	Keep the datacenter default; it reaches Ahpra's register without issue.

📊 Data table

Field	Type	Description
registrationNumber	string	Ahpra registration number, for example NMW0002025776.
name	string	Practitioner's registered name.
alternativeName	string | absent	Alternative name shown on the register, when published.
profession	string | absent	Registered profession, for example Nurse or Medical Practitioner.
division	string | absent	Division within the profession, for example Registered nurse (Division 1).
registrationType	string | absent	General, Provisional, Specialist, or Non Practising.
speciality	string | absent	Specialty field, when the practitioner holds one.
registrations	array | absent	Every division/registration-type/speciality combination on the register, for practitioners registered more than one way.
locationText, suburb, state, postcode	string | absent	Location shown in the search result.
detailFetched	boolean	Whether the full public record below was fetched for this row.
registrationStatus	string | absent	Current registration status, for example Registered.
conditions	string | absent	Public conditions on the registration, when any are recorded.
undertakings	string | absent	Public undertakings, when any are recorded.
reprimands	string | absent	Public reprimands, when any are recorded.
dateOfFirstRegistration	string | absent	The date this practitioner first registered in this profession.
registrationExpiryDate	string | absent	Current registration expiry date.
divisionDetails	array | absent	Per-division expiry, conditions, endorsements, notations, and registration requirements.
sex	string | absent	As published on the register.
languages	array of string | absent	Languages spoken in addition to English.
qualifications	array of string | absent	Qualifications as published on the register.
principalPlaceSuburb, principalPlaceState, principalPlacePostcode, principalPlaceCountry	string | absent	Principal place of practice.
matchedQuery	string	The roster entry (name or number) that produced this row.
sourceUrl	string	The Ahpra register page this data comes from.
scrapedAt	string	When this row was checked.
changeType	string | absent	Only present in Recurring monitor mode: NEW, UPDATED, or UNCHANGED.

You can download the dataset in JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel from the Output tab of any run.

📤 Sample output

{
    "registrationNumber": "NMW0002025776",
    "name": "Mr Kabir Shrestha",
    "profession": "Nurse",
    "division": "Registered nurse (Division 1)",
    "registrationType": "General",
    "suburb": "Prestons",
    "state": "NSW",
    "postcode": "2170",
    "detailFetched": true,
    "registrationStatus": "Registered",
    "dateOfFirstRegistration": "01/03/2016",
    "registrationExpiryDate": "31/05/2027",
    "sex": "Male",
    "languages": ["Hindi", "Nepali"],
    "qualifications": ["Bachelor of Nursing, Australian Catholic University, Australia, 2015"],
    "principalPlaceSuburb": "PRESTONS",
    "principalPlaceState": "NSW",
    "matchedQuery": "Shrestha",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.ahpra.gov.au/Registration/Registers-of-Practitioners.aspx",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-18T18:20:00.000Z"
}

💰 Pricing

Pricing is pay per result. You are charged only for practitioner records successfully written to your dataset. Empty runs cost nothing. There are no monthly subscriptions or minimum commitments.

Free plan runs are limited in items per run, runs per day, and a short wait between runs. These limits do not apply to paid plans.

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✨ Tips

• Search by registration number when you have it. A registration number matches exactly one person; a common surname can match thousands of real Ahpra entries.
• Give every monitored roster its own state name. Use a different stateName per client or roster so scheduled runs never mix up their change history.
• Raise maxResultsPerQuery only for a name you expect to be rare. Otherwise a broad surname search can pull in matches that were never the practitioner you meant.
• Turn onlyNewOrChanged off for a full audit snapshot. Every roster entry is output on every run with its change label attached, useful for a point-in-time compliance record.
• Schedule Recurring monitor mode on the Apify Scheduler. Each run after the first reports only what actually moved.

❓ FAQ

Does this Actor need a login or an Ahpra account?

No. It reads Ahpra's public register, the same anonymous search and detail pages anyone can view in a browser without signing in.

How does Recurring monitor mode know what changed?

Give it a stateName and run it on a schedule with the same roster. Each run compares the current registration status, conditions, undertakings, reprimands, notations, and expiry against what was saved last time, and labels every practitioner NEW, UPDATED, or UNCHANGED.

What counts as a "change"?

A genuine difference in registration status, conditions, undertakings, reprimands, endorsements, notations, or expiry date. Re-checking the same, unchanged record never counts as a change.

How fresh is the data?

Every run reads Ahpra's register live at the moment it runs. Results reflect what the public register shows right then.

Is checking the Ahpra register legal?

This Actor reads publicly available register pages, the same pages Ahpra makes available to anyone without a login. It is an independent tool, not affiliated with or endorsed by Ahpra or any National Board. You are responsible for complying with Ahpra's terms of use and applicable law. For questions or custom fields, contact the author at devanshtiwari365@gmail.com.

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