WhatClinic.com Clinic Scraper — Global Medical & Dental Clinic Directory Data Extractor

The most complete WhatClinic.com data extraction tool on Apify. Pull structured clinic listings, ServiceScores, patient reviews, treatment prices, awards, contact details and full profiles from the world's largest healthcare directory — 120,000+ clinics across 160+ countries — and turn medical-tourism, dental, cosmetic, fertility and eye-surgery data into ready-to-use JSON for sourcing, comparison, pricing intelligence and lead generation.

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What This Actor Does

The WhatClinic.com Clinic Scraper is a production-ready Apify Actor that extracts structured clinic data from WhatClinic.com — the world's largest medical and dental treatment directory. WhatClinic indexes 120,000+ clinics in 160+ countries, with patient reviews, proprietary ServiceScores, starting prices, treatment menus and verified business profiles spanning eight major treatment verticals.

In a single run, the actor walks WhatClinic's category × country search pages (with optional drill-downs into city, province and individual clinic profiles), normalizes the markup into a flat JSON schema, parses multi-currency prices, and pushes ready-to-use records into the Apify dataset — so you can stop reverse-engineering listing HTML and start building dashboards, lead lists, price-comparison engines and medical-tourism recommendation flows.

A typical record covers:

• Clinic identity — name, profile URL, country, city, district, full street address
• Reputation signals — proprietary ServiceScore (0–10), score label (Outstanding / Excellent / Very Good / Good), interaction count, patient review count, average rating, awards (Customer Service Award, Global Patients Award, Quality Award)
• Treatment & pricing — starting price (From €1,800), parsed currency (EUR), numeric price (1800), treatment menu and per-treatment price list
• Operational data — phone, opening hours (when scraped from detail pages), staff/specialist names, gallery photos, long-form description
• Catalog metadata — category vertical (Dental, Hair Loss, Cosmetic Surgery, Eye Surgery, Fertility, Physiotherapy, Skin Care, Weight Loss), verified flag, promoted/featured flag, search context that surfaced the record, and an ISO-8601 scrapedAt timestamp

The dataset is the fastest way to populate a medical-tourism comparison platform, build price benchmarks for dental implants in Istanbul or hair-transplant clinics in Antalya, audit insurance networks against a real-world clinic catalog, or generate targeted B2B lead lists for medical-device, SaaS, marketing and travel-services vendors selling into private healthcare.

Why scrape WhatClinic yourself when this exists?

WhatClinic.com is exceptionally rich data — and exceptionally painful to scrape. Most engineers who try get blocked within minutes:

• TLS fingerprinting blocks Node and curl — bare HTTP clients receive a Client-OldBrowserSpam rejection. WhatClinic checks the TLS handshake, not just the user-agent string, so requests must come from a real Chrome browser
• JavaScript-rendered listing cards — search result blocks (clinicResult, provider-result, listing-result) are hydrated client-side; raw HTML alone misses ServiceScores, prices and review counts
• Cookie-consent walls — the first hit on each session must accept the GDPR banner before content is served, otherwise you get a stripped page
• 403 / 429 / 503 rotation — bursts of requests trigger anti-bot escalation; you need warmup, throttling and proxy rotation on each retry
• Inconsistent card markup across categories — dental, cosmetic and fertility listings use slightly different class names; one parser does not fit all
• Multi-currency price strings — From €1,800, From £950, From ₺18.000, From ฿45,000, From ₹1,20,000 all need currency detection and numeric normalization
• URL slug drift — dental in the UI is dentists/ in URLs, and city paths include the province (istanbul-province/istanbul/); a naive category/country/city URL builder breaks
• Pagination via ?page=N with no canonical total count — you must detect the rel="next" link or stop when a page returns zero new clinics
• Detail pages are slow and JS-heavy — full address, opening hours, treatments, doctor names and photos live on profile pages that need full DOM rendering
• Schema drift — WhatClinic ships A/B tests; selectors that worked last month silently return null this month

This actor solves all of that: real Chromium via Playwright, automatic cookie acceptance, homepage warmup, proxy fallback on 403/429/503, multi-pattern card parser, JSON-LD harvesting on profile pages, and a stable flat output schema — so you stop maintaining HTML parsers and start shipping product features.

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Quick Start

One-Click Run

1. Open the WhatClinic.com Clinic Scraper page on Apify
2. Click Try for free — the prefilled input runs categories: ["hair-loss"], countries: ["turkey"], maxListings: 50
3. Hit Start — within a few minutes the dataset is populated with Turkish hair-loss clinics ranked by ServiceScore
4. Open the dataset and download as JSON, CSV, Excel, JSONL, HTML or XML — or send it straight to Google Sheets via Apify's integrations panel

API Run (Python)

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN")

run = client.actor("haketa/whatclinic-scraper").call(run_input={
    "categories":      ["dental", "cosmetic-surgery"],
    "countries":       ["turkey", "thailand", "hungary"],
    "minServiceScore": 8.0,
    "scrapeDetails":   True,
    "maxListings":     500,
    "maxPages":        10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": True, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]}
})

for clinic in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(
        clinic["clinicName"],
        "|", clinic["city"], clinic["country"],
        "|", clinic["serviceScore"], clinic["serviceScoreLabel"],
        "|", clinic["priceFrom"], "→", clinic["priceCurrency"], clinic["priceNumeric"],
    )

API Run (Node.js / TypeScript)

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('haketa/whatclinic-scraper').call({
    categories:      ['hair-loss'],
    countries:       ['turkey'],
    cities:          ['istanbul-province/istanbul', 'antalya-province/antalya'],
    minServiceScore: 7.5,
    scrapeDetails:   true,
    maxListings:     300,
    maxPages:        8,
    requestDelay:    2000,
    maxConcurrency:  1,
    proxyConfiguration: { useApifyProxy: true, apifyProxyGroups: ['RESIDENTIAL'] },
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} hair-transplant clinics across Istanbul and Antalya`);

API Run (cURL)

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/haketa~whatclinic-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
        "categories":      ["fertility"],
        "countries":       ["spain", "czech-republic", "greece"],
        "minServiceScore": 8.5,
        "scrapeDetails":   true,
        "maxListings":     200
      }'

API Run (direct profile URLs)

run = client.actor("haketa/whatclinic-scraper").call(run_input={
    "startUrls": [
        {"url": "https://www.whatclinic.com/hair-loss/turkey/istanbul-province/istanbul/cosmedica-hair-transplant"},
        {"url": "https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/thailand/bangkok/bangkok-international-dental-center"}
    ],
    "scrapeDetails": True
})

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How It Works

WhatClinic.com is a TLS-fingerprinted, JavaScript-hydrated, GDPR-walled site. Naive HTTP scrapers get a 403 Client-OldBrowserSpam response within seconds. The actor's architecture works around every obstacle:

1. Engine: Headless Chromium via Playwright — a real browser with a real TLS handshake. No axios, no got, no node-fetch
2. Warmup: The first hit per session visits https://www.whatclinic.com/ to set country-detection cookies, then automatically clicks the GDPR consent banner (button:has-text("Accept"))
3. Resource blocking: Images, fonts and trackers are blocked to keep page weight low while preserving JS and CSS execution
4. Anti-bot rotation: Attempt 1 runs direct; attempts 2–3 swap in a fresh Apify residential IP and back off exponentially on 403 / 429 / 503
5. Listing parser: Multi-pattern regex extraction over the rendered HTML — handles both legacy (clinicResult) and current (provider-result, listing-result, result-card) card class names, plus a fallback that mines profile-link slugs when no structured block is present
6. Detail enrichment (hybrid JSON-LD + DOM): Optional second pass per clinic fetches the profile page and combines two complementary extractors:
   • Comprehensive JSON-LD MedicalClinic / Dentist / LocalBusiness harvest — pulls aggregateRating, review[], openingHoursSpecification, availableService (treatments + prices), paymentAccepted, currenciesAccepted, geo (lat/lng), sameAs (social links), email, url, foundingDate, priceRange, award, hasCredential, availableLanguage
   • Live DOM evaluator via page.evaluate — extracts individual review cards, hours tables, treatment-price rows, social links and contact info that JSON-LD does not serve (or serves partially)
   • Smart author parsing — splits messy WhatClinic author strings like "23.02.2026 Darko, Malta ( Review verified by phone )" into clean {author: "Darko", country: "Malta", verifiedBy: "phone", date: "23.02.2026"} — preserving patient origin country for medical-tourism intelligence
7. Price normalization: Currency symbols (€, £, $, ₺, ฿, ₹, Ft, zł, R$) are mapped to ISO codes; numeric values are stripped of thousand separators and parsed as floats
8. Deduplication: A run-scoped Set keyed on profileUrl ensures the same clinic is never written twice, even when it appears on multiple search paths

Verified live on Metropolmed Istanbul: 13 real testimonials extracted with patient names, patient origin country (Malta, Ireland, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey — medical-tourism critical), date, verification method (phone / email), and full multi-paragraph text.

Source endpoints

Path Template	Purpose
https://www.whatclinic.com/{category}/{country}/	Country-level listing for a category
https://www.whatclinic.com/{category}/{country}/?page={N}	Pagination (~15–20 clinics/page)
https://www.whatclinic.com/{category}/{country}/{province}/{city}/	City-level drill-down (e.g. istanbul-province/istanbul/)
https://www.whatclinic.com/{category}/{country}/{province}/{city}/{clinic-slug}	Individual clinic profile page

Category URL slug map

The UI category label and the URL slug occasionally differ. The actor maps them automatically:

Input Slug	URL Path Segment	Display Label
dental	dentists	Dental
hair-loss	hair-loss	Hair Loss
cosmetic-surgery	cosmetic-surgery	Cosmetic Surgery
eye-surgery	eye-surgery	Eye Surgery
fertility	fertility	Fertility
physiotherapy	physiotherapy	Physiotherapy
skin-care	skin-care	Skin Care
weight-loss	weight-loss	Weight Loss

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Input Parameters

{
  "categories":      ["hair-loss", "dental"],
  "countries":       ["turkey", "thailand"],
  "cities":          ["istanbul-province/istanbul"],
  "startUrls":       [],
  "minServiceScore": 8.0,
  "scrapeDetails":   true,
  "maxListings":     500,
  "maxPages":        10,
  "requestDelay":    1500,
  "maxConcurrency":  1,
  "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"] }
}

Parameter reference

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
categories	array<string>	all 8	Treatment verticals to scrape. Allowed: hair-loss, cosmetic-surgery, dental, eye-surgery, fertility, physiotherapy, skin-care, weight-loss. Empty array = all categories.
countries	array<string>	[]	Country slugs. Examples: turkey, thailand, hungary, india, spain, mexico, uk, usa, brazil, poland, united-arab-emirates. See coverage table below.
cities	array<string>	[]	Optional city slugs (typically province/city). Example for Turkey: istanbul-province/istanbul, antalya-province/antalya, izmir-province/izmir. Leave empty to search the whole country.
startUrls	array<object>	[]	Direct WhatClinic listing or profile URLs. Overrides category/country/city if used. Format: [{"url": "https://www.whatclinic.com/..."}].
minServiceScore	number	0	Filter — only keep clinics with serviceScore >= this. Range 0–10. Set 0 to disable.
scrapeDetails	boolean	false	When true, the actor visits each clinic's profile page for address, opening hours, treatments, prices, staff, description and photos. Slower but much richer.
maxListings	integer	50	Cap on total clinics saved across all searches. Set 0 for unlimited.
maxPages	integer	5	Cap on pages per category × country × city combination. Set 0 for unlimited.
requestDelay	integer (ms)	1000	Pause between requests. WhatClinic dislikes bursts — keep ≥ 1500 ms in production. Max 30000.
maxConcurrency	integer	1	Parallel browser contexts. Keep 1–3 to avoid rate limiting. Max 5.
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy on	Apify proxy spec. Residential is recommended for any non-trivial run; datacenter IPs are blocked quickly.

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Output Schema

Every record uses the same flat JSON shape — whether it came from a listing card or an enriched profile page — so downstream consumers do not need per-source branching.

Identity & location

Field	Type	Description
clinicName	string	Clinic display name (e.g. Bangkok International Dental Center)
profileUrl	string	Absolute URL to the WhatClinic profile page
category	string	Display label (e.g. Hair Loss, Dental, Cosmetic Surgery)
country	string	Country name as shown on WhatClinic
city	string	City name (Title-cased)
district	string | null	Sub-area within city, when available on profile pages
address	string | null	Street address (filled when scrapeDetails: true)
postalCode	string | null	Postal / ZIP code parsed from JSON-LD address.postalCode
phone	string | null	Phone number from profile page or JSON-LD
email	string | null	Clinic email — extracted from JSON-LD or DOM mailto: links when published
website	string | null	External clinic website URL (JSON-LD url or DOM contact block)
latitude	number | null	Geographic latitude from JSON-LD geo.latitude
longitude	number | null	Geographic longitude from JSON-LD geo.longitude
socialLinks	array<string> | null	Facebook / Instagram / YouTube / LinkedIn / Twitter URLs from JSON-LD sameAs and DOM social bar

Reputation signals

Field	Type	Description
serviceScore	number | null	WhatClinic proprietary score 0.0 – 10.0
serviceScoreLabel	string | null	Human label: Outstanding, Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair, Poor
interactionCount	integer | null	Number of inquiries / interactions feeding the score
reviewCount	integer | null	Number of verified patient reviews
averageRating	number | null	Patient rating average (0.0 – 5.0)
ratingScale	number | null	Native rating scale used by the source (typically 5 or 10) — needed to normalise averageRating across clinics
awards	array<string> | null	Annual awards (e.g. Customer Service Award 2024, Global Patients Award 2023)
reviews	array<object> | null	Individual patient testimonials. Each entry: {author, country, verifiedBy, rating, text, date, treatment}. country = patient origin (medical-tourism critical), verifiedBy = phone / email / null, rating often null (see FAQ).

Treatment & pricing

Field	Type	Description
priceFrom	string | null	Starting price string as displayed (e.g. From €1,800)
priceCurrency	string | null	ISO currency code: EUR, GBP, USD, TRY, THB, INR, HUF, PLN, BRL
priceNumeric	number | null	Parsed numeric value (no separators)
treatments	array<string> | null	Treatment menu (profile-page enrichment)
treatmentPrices	array<object> | null	Per-treatment price rows when listed on the profile

Profile depth (when scrapeDetails: true)

Field	Type	Description
openingHours	object | null	{ monday: "9:00 - 18:00", tuesday: "9:00 - 18:00", ... } — merged from JSON-LD openingHoursSpecification and on-page hours tables
staffNames	array<string> | null	Listed doctors / specialists
description	string | null	Long-form clinic description
photos	array<string> | null	Gallery image URLs (logos / avatars stripped)
foundingDate	string | null	Year the clinic was founded (JSON-LD foundingDate)
paymentMethods	array<string> | null	Accepted payment methods (e.g. Cash, Visa, MasterCard, Bank Transfer) — JSON-LD paymentAccepted
currenciesAccepted	array<string> | null	ISO currency codes the clinic transacts in (EUR, USD, TRY, …)
languages	array<string> | null	Languages spoken by staff — JSON-LD availableLanguage plus DOM "Languages spoken" block
credentials	array<string> | null	Accreditations / certifications (JCI, ISO 9001, ministry-of-health licences, etc.) from JSON-LD hasCredential

Status & metadata

Field	Type	Description
verified	boolean | null	true if the listing displays a "verified" badge / review marker
promoted	boolean | null	true if Featured / Promoted / Premium / Sponsored placement
searchCategory	string	Input category that surfaced this clinic
searchCountry	string	Input country that surfaced this clinic
searchCity	string | null	Input city (or null for whole-country searches)
scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 UTC timestamp of extraction

Example: Hair transplant clinic (Istanbul)

{
  "clinicName": "Cosmedica Hair Transplant",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.whatclinic.com/hair-loss/turkey/istanbul-province/istanbul/cosmedica-hair-transplant",
  "category": "Hair Loss",
  "country": "Turkey",
  "city": "Istanbul",
  "district": "Şişli",
  "address": "Esentepe Mh. Büyükdere Cd.",
  "postalCode": "34394",
  "phone": "+90 212 999 99 99",
  "email": "info@cosmedica.example",
  "website": "https://www.cosmedica.example",
  "latitude": 41.0766,
  "longitude": 29.0103,
  "serviceScore": 9.8,
  "serviceScoreLabel": "Outstanding",
  "interactionCount": 412,
  "reviewCount": 187,
  "averageRating": 4.9,
  "ratingScale": 5,
  "awards": ["Customer Service Award 2024", "Global Patients Award 2023"],
  "reviews": [
    {
      "author": "Darko",
      "country": "Malta",
      "verifiedBy": "phone",
      "rating": null,
      "text": "Excellent treatment from start to finish, the team made me feel safe throughout the whole procedure.",
      "date": "23.02.2026",
      "treatment": "FUE Hair Transplant"
    }
  ],
  "foundingDate": "2012",
  "paymentMethods": ["Cash", "Visa", "MasterCard", "Bank Transfer"],
  "currenciesAccepted": ["EUR", "USD", "TRY", "GBP"],
  "languages": ["English", "Turkish", "German", "Arabic"],
  "credentials": ["ISO 9001", "Turkish Ministry of Health Licensed"],
  "socialLinks": [
    "https://www.facebook.com/cosmedicaclinic",
    "https://www.instagram.com/cosmedicaclinic"
  ],
  "priceFrom": "From €1,800",
  "priceCurrency": "EUR",
  "priceNumeric": 1800,
  "openingHours": {
    "monday":    "9:00 - 18:00",
    "tuesday":   "9:00 - 18:00",
    "wednesday": "9:00 - 18:00",
    "thursday":  "9:00 - 18:00",
    "friday":    "9:00 - 18:00",
    "saturday":  "9:00 - 16:00"
  },
  "treatments": ["FUE Hair Transplant", "DHI Hair Transplant", "Sapphire FUE", "Beard Transplant", "Eyebrow Transplant"],
  "treatmentPrices": null,
  "staffNames": ["Dr. Levent Acar"],
  "description": "Cosmedica Hair Transplant is one of Istanbul's most recognised hair restoration clinics specialising in FUE, DHI and Sapphire FUE techniques for international patients.",
  "photos": [
    "https://images.whatclinic.com/example/clinic-1.jpg",
    "https://images.whatclinic.com/example/clinic-2.jpg"
  ],
  "verified": true,
  "promoted": true,
  "searchCategory": "hair-loss",
  "searchCountry": "turkey",
  "searchCity": "istanbul-province/istanbul",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T11:22:33.000Z"
}

Example: Dental clinic (Budapest)

{
  "clinicName": "Helvetic Clinics Budapest",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/hungary/central-hungary/budapest/helvetic-clinics-budapest",
  "category": "Dental",
  "country": "Hungary",
  "city": "Budapest",
  "district": null,
  "address": null,
  "phone": null,
  "serviceScore": 9.4,
  "serviceScoreLabel": "Excellent",
  "interactionCount": 268,
  "reviewCount": 142,
  "averageRating": 4.8,
  "awards": ["Global Patients Award 2024"],
  "priceFrom": "From €290",
  "priceCurrency": "EUR",
  "priceNumeric": 290,
  "openingHours": null,
  "treatments": null,
  "treatmentPrices": null,
  "staffNames": null,
  "description": null,
  "photos": null,
  "verified": true,
  "promoted": false,
  "searchCategory": "dental",
  "searchCountry": "hungary",
  "searchCity": null,
  "scrapedAt": "2026-05-16T11:22:33.000Z"
}

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ServiceScore Reference

WhatClinic's proprietary ServiceScore is a 0–10 metric combining inquiry response time, response quality, conversion behaviour and verified review data. The actor exposes both the raw score and the human label so you can filter, sort and display either.

Label	Score Range	Meaning
Outstanding	9.5 – 10.0	Top-tier responsiveness and patient experience
Excellent	9.0 – 9.4	Very high-performing clinic
Very Good	8.0 – 8.9	Above-average service quality
Good	7.0 – 7.9	Solid baseline — meets WhatClinic standards
Fair	5.0 – 6.9	Mixed signals — review before referral
Poor	0.0 – 4.9	Significant service issues

Tip: Combine minServiceScore: 8.0 with verified: true filters downstream to build a curated, high-trust referral list.

Treatment Category Reference

Slug	Display	What's Inside
hair-loss	Hair Loss	FUE, DHI, Sapphire FUE, beard & eyebrow transplants, PRP, mesotherapy
dental	Dental	Implants, veneers, crowns, All-on-4 / All-on-6, orthodontics, whitening, smile makeovers
cosmetic-surgery	Cosmetic Surgery	Rhinoplasty, breast aug/lift, liposuction, BBL, facelift, blepharoplasty, body contouring
eye-surgery	Eye Surgery	LASIK, PRK, SMILE, ICL, cataract, lens replacement, retinal
fertility	Fertility	IVF, ICSI, IUI, egg/sperm freezing, donor cycles, surrogacy programs
physiotherapy	Physiotherapy	Sports rehab, post-op, manual therapy, neurological rehab
skin-care	Skin Care	Dermatology, laser, peels, fillers, botox, acne, pigmentation
weight-loss	Weight Loss	Gastric sleeve, bypass, balloon, mini-bypass, revision bariatrics

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Use Cases

Medical-Tourism Agencies & Travel Concierges

Medical-tourism agencies use the dataset as the spine of their clinic-matching, quote-generation and referral pipelines:

• Build a multi-country comparison engine — IVF in Spain vs. Czech Republic vs. Greece, ranked by ServiceScore and starting price
• Generate one-click client quotes by joining priceNumeric × priceCurrency with live FX rates
• Curate "verified by WhatClinic" referral lists with verified: true and minServiceScore: 8.5 filters
• Track award winners (Customer Service Award, Global Patients Award) to highlight in marketing collateral
• Refresh the clinic catalog weekly so new openings in Istanbul, Antalya, Bangkok or Mexico City appear in the funnel automatically
• Identify language-friendly clinics by enriching with the description text via downstream NLP
• Map patient-origin geography per clinic — aggregate the country field across reviews[] to see exactly which nationalities each clinic already attracts (e.g. Metropolmed Istanbul draws Malta, Ireland, Bulgaria, Romania), then target lookalike audiences in marketing
• Run sentiment analysis on individual testimonials (reviews[].text) to score patient experience beyond a 5-star average — surface complaint patterns and standout praise per clinic
• Use verification trust signals (reviews[].verifiedBy = "phone" vs "email" vs null) to weight review credibility in your ranking algorithm
• Direct outreach with email, website, socialLinks, lat/lng — bypass the WhatClinic contact form for partnership conversations and plot clinics on maps for territory planning

Dental & Cosmetic Price-Benchmarking Platforms

Cost-comparison startups (think "Kayak for dental implants") use the actor to build the price index that drives the product:

• Crawl dental implant prices across Hungary, Turkey, Spain, Poland, Mexico and Thailand in one run
• Compute median, p25, p75 price bands per treatment × country using priceNumeric
• Detect undercutting or premium pricing clinic-by-clinic vs. national benchmark
• Surface savings vs. home country — "Save 65% on All-on-4 vs. UK average"
• Power "price drop" alerts when a clinic's priceFrom falls below a threshold
• Feed an affiliate / lead-generation funnel with the strongest price-quality combinations

Insurance & Provider Network Audits

Health insurers, travel-medical underwriters and TPAs use WhatClinic data as an external reality check on their preferred-provider networks:

• Audit network gaps — does your Bangkok cosmetic-surgery network include the top-10 by ServiceScore?
• Identify high-quality non-network clinics that members are likely to choose out-of-pocket
• Detect disqualifying signals (low review count, low score, no awards) before adding a clinic
• Negotiate pricing with hard data on the local competitive band
• Validate provider directories monthly against an independent source
• Support international utilization-management decisions with current third-party reputation data

B2B Sales & Lead Generation (Medical Devices, SaaS, Marketing Services)

Vendors selling into private clinics — implant manufacturers, EMR / PMS SaaS, dental imaging, surgical lasers, clinic-marketing agencies — use the actor to build precision target lists:

• Filter by category × country × city to match sales territories
• Score leads by ServiceScore, review count and award presence as proxies for budget and growth
• Enrich Salesforce / HubSpot with phone, address and profile URL via license-number-style upsert keys
• Detect "Featured" / promoted clinics — known WhatClinic advertisers signal marketing-budget readiness
• Identify multi-location chains (matching brand fragments) for enterprise outreach
• Track new clinic openings month-over-month by diffing successive runs

Healthcare M&A and Investor Research

Private equity, VC and corporate-development teams evaluating clinic chains, consolidator plays and roll-up theses use the dataset for bottoms-up market mapping:

• Size the addressable supply of dental, hair-loss or fertility clinics in a target geography
• Map competitive density at the city / district level
• Benchmark ServiceScore distributions before acquiring a chain
• Detect emerging hubs — fastest-growing cities for cosmetic-surgery clinics
• Build acquisition target screens with verified: true, score ≥ 9.0, ≥ 100 reviews
• Cross-reference with public-licensing data (NPI, CA DCA, TSBP, Ohio eLicense) for clinics with US footprints

Academic, Public-Health & Workforce Research

Health economists, global-health researchers and journalists use WhatClinic data to quantify private-clinic supply in markets where official statistics are sparse:

• Map medical-tourism gravity flows — origin countries vs. destination clinic clusters
• Quantify private-sector dental capacity in middle-income countries
• Study price dispersion across categories and currencies
• Track award concentration as a proxy for sector consolidation
• Build reproducible datasets for peer-reviewed publication on global private healthcare
• Investigate consumer-protection issues — clinics with low scores yet heavy promotion

Clinic Marketing & Reputation Management

Clinic owners and reputation-management agencies monitor their own and competitor presence on WhatClinic to defend and grow market share:

• Track week-over-week ServiceScore changes for the clinic and top-10 local competitors
• Benchmark review velocity — are competitors gaining reviews faster?
• Audit price positioning vs. neighbourhood / city median
• Surface new entrants in the local competitive set
• Detect lost award status or promotion downgrades
• Inform PPC and SEO campaign budgets with category × city demand signals

Investigative & Consumer-Affairs Journalism

Reporters covering medical tourism, cosmetic-surgery safety, fertility ethics and international dental fraud use the dataset for scoped, reproducible reporting:

• Identify clinics promoting aggressively at the lowest end of the price band
• Compare advertised prices vs. patient-reported actuals
• Trace ownership patterns across clinic chains with similar branding
• Document "promoted" placement bias in directory listings
• Build country-by-country safety dashboards combining WhatClinic data with regulator records

Travel, Hospitality & Concierge Tech

Hotels, travel-tech platforms and concierge apps near major medical-tourism hubs use the data to bundle care with stays and transfers:

• Power "stay near a top clinic" search in Istanbul, Antalya, Bangkok, Mumbai, Budapest
• Match accommodation tier to clinic tier (luxury hair-transplant + 5-star hotel package)
• Build aftercare-friendly itineraries based on opening hours and treatment durations
• Localize landing pages with current clinic counts and review aggregates per city

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Sample Queries & Recipes

Recipe 1 — Top-tier hair-transplant clinics in Turkey

{
  "categories":      ["hair-loss"],
  "countries":       ["turkey"],
  "minServiceScore": 9.0,
  "scrapeDetails":   true,
  "maxListings":     200,
  "maxPages":        15
}

Goal: a curated list of award-class Turkish hair-transplant clinics for a medical-tourism affiliate site.

Recipe 2 — Budapest dental implants under €1,000 starting price

{
  "categories":    ["dental"],
  "countries":     ["hungary"],
  "cities":        ["central-hungary/budapest"],
  "scrapeDetails": true,
  "maxListings":   100
}

Post-filter downstream on priceNumeric < 1000 and priceCurrency == "EUR".

Recipe 3 — IVF clinic comparison across Spain, Czech Republic and Greece

{
  "categories":      ["fertility"],
  "countries":       ["spain", "czech-republic", "greece"],
  "minServiceScore": 8.5,
  "scrapeDetails":   true,
  "maxListings":     300,
  "maxPages":        10
}

Recipe 4 — Bangkok cosmetic-surgery competitive map

{
  "categories":    ["cosmetic-surgery"],
  "countries":     ["thailand"],
  "cities":        ["central-thailand/bangkok"],
  "scrapeDetails": true,
  "maxListings":   250
}

Recipe 5 — Mexico City weight-loss / bariatric clinic lead list

{
  "categories":    ["weight-loss"],
  "countries":     ["mexico"],
  "cities":        ["mexico-city/mexico-city"],
  "minServiceScore": 7.5,
  "maxListings":   150
}

Recipe 6 — Eye-surgery clinics in Dubai (UAE)

{
  "categories":    ["eye-surgery"],
  "countries":     ["united-arab-emirates"],
  "cities":        ["dubai/dubai"],
  "scrapeDetails": true,
  "maxListings":   80
}

Recipe 7 — Direct profile enrichment for a known shortlist

{
  "startUrls": [
    {"url": "https://www.whatclinic.com/dentists/hungary/central-hungary/budapest/helvetic-clinics-budapest"},
    {"url": "https://www.whatclinic.com/hair-loss/turkey/istanbul-province/istanbul/cosmedica-hair-transplant"},
    {"url": "https://www.whatclinic.com/cosmetic-surgery/thailand/central-thailand/bangkok/yanhee-international-hospital"}
  ],
  "scrapeDetails": true
}

Recipe 8 — Sample run for evaluation (cheap and fast)

{
  "categories":  ["dental"],
  "countries":   ["turkey"],
  "maxListings": 20,
  "maxPages":    2
}

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Integration Examples

Google Sheets (no-code)

1. Schedule the actor daily / weekly in the Apify Console
2. Attach the Google Sheets integration on the schedule
3. Receive a fresh clinic sheet (overview view: name / category / country / city / score / price / awards) in your Drive every morning — ready for filtering, pivot tables and Looker Studio dashboards

Make.com / Zapier / n8n

Use the Apify connector to wire dataset events into downstream workflows:

• New clinic added → Slack notification to the BD team
• ServiceScore drop > 1.0 → Open a Linear / Jira ticket for the account manager
• Price change > 20% → Email alert to the pricing analyst
• New award detected → Auto-tag in HubSpot as tier-1-target

Power BI / Tableau / Looker Studio

Connect Apify's REST API as a data source and build:

• ServiceScore distribution by category × country
• Median price bands per treatment per city
• Award concentration heatmap
• Clinic supply growth trend (run-over-run diff)
• Country share-of-supply pie charts

Postgres / Snowflake / BigQuery

Use Apify's webhook integration to POST run results to your warehouse ingestion endpoint. Suggested keys:

• Primary: profileUrl
• Partition: searchCountry / searchCategory
• Slowly-changing: serviceScore, priceNumeric, reviewCount, awards

Salesforce / HubSpot CRM Enrichment

Schedule nightly, then upsert against Account records keyed on profileUrl. Score changes can auto-create Tasks; new awards can trigger lifecycle-stage promotions.

Custom Apps (Python / Node)

The apify-client SDKs stream dataset items directly, so a Flask / FastAPI / Next.js app can render live clinic data without re-implementing the scraper.

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Major Markets & Regional Coverage

WhatClinic indexes clinics in 160+ countries. The actor handles every market the site exposes via its category-country URL pattern. The table below highlights the most-trafficked medical-tourism and private-healthcare hubs.

Market	Hub Cities	Strongest Verticals
Turkey	Istanbul, Antalya, Izmir, Ankara, Bodrum	Hair transplant, dental, cosmetic surgery, eye surgery
Thailand	Bangkok, Phuket, Chiang Mai, Pattaya	Cosmetic surgery, dental, gender-affirming, weight loss
Hungary	Budapest, Sopron, Mosonmagyaróvár	Dental, cosmetic surgery
Mexico	Mexico City, Tijuana, Cancún, Guadalajara, Los Algodones	Dental, weight loss, cosmetic surgery
India	Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Chennai, Hyderabad	Fertility, cosmetic, dental, eye surgery
Spain	Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Marbella	Fertility, cosmetic surgery, dental
Poland	Warsaw, Kraków, Wrocław, Gdańsk	Dental, cosmetic surgery
Czech Republic	Prague, Brno	Fertility, cosmetic surgery, dental
UAE	Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah	Cosmetic surgery, dental, dermatology
United Kingdom	London, Manchester, Birmingham, Edinburgh, Glasgow	Dental, cosmetic surgery, fertility, hair loss
Germany	Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Frankfurt	Dental, fertility, cosmetic surgery
United States	New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Houston	Dental, cosmetic surgery, eye surgery, fertility
Brazil	São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Curitiba	Cosmetic surgery, dental
South Korea	Seoul, Busan	Cosmetic surgery, dental
Malaysia	Kuala Lumpur, Penang	Cosmetic, dental, fertility
Greece	Athens, Thessaloniki	Fertility, dental
Costa Rica	San José, Escazú	Dental, cosmetic surgery
Colombia	Bogotá, Medellín, Cali	Cosmetic surgery, dental

Tip: Country slugs follow WhatClinic's URL convention — lowercase, hyphenated (united-arab-emirates, czech-republic, south-korea). City slugs include the province segment (istanbul-province/istanbul).

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Cost & Performance

Metric	Value
Engine	Headless Chromium via Playwright (real Chrome TLS fingerprint)
Runtime (listings only, 100 clinics, single country)	~3–6 minutes
Runtime (with scrapeDetails: true, 100 clinics)	~12–25 minutes
Pricing model	Pay-per-event (transparent per-record + per-start billing)
Cost per run	Varies with maxListings × scrapeDetails; typical small runs a few cents
Data freshness	Live at run time — WhatClinic is queried in real time on each request
Auth required	None
Proxy required	Residential strongly recommended (datacenter IPs get 403'd)
Concurrency	Default 1, max 5 — keep low to avoid 429/503 escalation
Memory footprint	1024 MB recommended (browser overhead)
Failure mode	Per-page graceful: 403/429/503 triggers proxy rotation + backoff up to 3 attempts

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Compliance, Privacy & Legal Notes

• Public data only — every field is published on WhatClinic.com to anyone visiting the site without an account
• No PHI — the dataset contains clinic business information and publicly displayed patient testimonials (first name + country of origin, as the patient and WhatClinic chose to publish them). No medical records, no diagnoses, no protected health information
• Business addresses, phones, emails & websites — these fields represent the clinic's published business contact details, not personal information
• Reviewer privacy — the reviews[] array contains only the first name / handle, country and verification flag the reviewer themselves consented to publish on WhatClinic. The actor does not attempt to deanonymise reviewers or join across clinics
• HIPAA does not apply — this is directory data, not protected health information
• GDPR / CCPA — business-entity directory data falls outside most personal-data protections; downstream use (e.g. marketing outreach) remains the consumer's responsibility under CAN-SPAM, TCPA, GDPR ePrivacy and equivalents
• robots.txt & ToS — the actor respects polite scraping conventions: throttled requests, low concurrency, residential proxy, no login circumvention. Confirm WhatClinic's current Terms of Service align with your intended use
• Trademarks — WhatClinic, ServiceScore, Customer Service Award and Global Patients Award are trademarks of their respective owners. This actor is an independent extraction tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by WhatClinic.com

Important: Do not use this data to mislead patients about clinic affiliations, fabricate reviews, or impersonate clinics. Bulk marketing outreach to listed clinics must comply with local anti-spam laws.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How fresh is the data?

Live at run time. WhatClinic is queried in real time on every actor run — there is no cached layer. ServiceScores, prices, awards and review counts reflect what was on the site the moment the run executed.

How many clinics can I extract per run?

There is no hard cap from the actor side — maxListings: 0 means unlimited. Practical limits come from WhatClinic's anti-bot behaviour: with maxConcurrency: 1, requestDelay: 1500 and residential proxies, expect 500–2,000 clinics per hour. Larger runs should be split into multiple scheduled jobs.

Do I need a WhatClinic account or API key?

No. WhatClinic does not offer a public API. The actor reads the same publicly-rendered HTML that a human visitor sees — no login, no token, no scraping account.

Why does WhatClinic block plain HTTP clients?

WhatClinic uses TLS fingerprinting in addition to user-agent checks. Node's fetch, Python requests and curl all produce TLS handshakes that differ from real Chrome, and the server responds with 403 Client-OldBrowserSpam. The actor sidesteps this by running real Chromium via Playwright.

Do I need residential proxies?

For anything beyond a 10-clinic test run, yes. Apify datacenter IPs are quickly recognised and 403-blocked. The actor's input prefills { "useApifyProxy": true }; switch the proxy group to RESIDENTIAL for production runs.

Which countries are supported?

Every country WhatClinic indexes — currently 160+. Major medical-tourism hubs (Turkey, Thailand, Hungary, Mexico, India, Spain, UAE, UK, Germany, US, Poland, Czech Republic, Brazil, Greece, Costa Rica, Colombia, Malaysia, South Korea) are battle-tested. Smaller markets work too — just use the same URL slug WhatClinic shows in its breadcrumb.

How do I find the right country / city slug?

Visit whatclinic.com, navigate to the category × country × city page you want, and copy the path segments from the URL. For example: https://www.whatclinic.com/hair-loss/turkey/istanbul-province/istanbul/ → countries: ["turkey"], cities: ["istanbul-province/istanbul"].

What's the difference between scrapeDetails: false and true?

false (default): only listing-card data (name, score, label, price, reviews, awards). Fast and cheap. true: visits each clinic's profile page and adds address, opening hours, treatments, staff, description and photos. Slower but produces full profile records.

Can I filter by ServiceScore?

Yes — set minServiceScore (0–10). The actor discards any clinic whose score is below the threshold before writing it to the dataset.

Are patient reviews included in the output?

Yes. The actor extracts the review count, average rating AND individual patient testimonials when scrapeDetails: true. Each entry in the reviews[] array carries {author, country, verifiedBy, rating, text, date, treatment} — the full multi-paragraph review body plus metadata.

Can I extract individual patient reviews with country of origin?

Yes — this is the headline feature. Verified live on Metropolmed Istanbul, the actor pulls 13 real testimonials including patient name, origin country (Malta, Ireland, Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey), date, verification method (phone vs. email), treatment and full text. Sample shape:

{
  "author": "Darko",
  "country": "Malta",
  "verifiedBy": "phone",
  "rating": null,
  "text": "Excellent treatment from start to finish, the team made me feel safe throughout the whole procedure.",
  "date": "23.02.2026",
  "treatment": "Hair Transplant"
}

Aggregate the country field across all reviews per clinic to build a medical-tourism origin map — invaluable for marketing intelligence and lookalike-audience targeting.

Why is rating often null on individual reviews?

WhatClinic does not expose per-review star ratings in its public review feed — only the aggregate averageRating and reviewCount. The actor populates reviews[].rating whenever a per-review score is published (some clinics surface it via JSON-LD), and leaves it null otherwise rather than fabricating a value. The aggregate field remains a reliable trust signal.

Can I get a clinic's email?

Yes — when the clinic publishes one. The actor extracts email from JSON-LD email properties and DOM mailto: links. Many clinics still prefer the WhatClinic contact form and do not publish an email; in those cases email is null and you should fall back to phone, website or socialLinks.

How complete are opening hours, treatments, prices and languages?

Partial — they depend on what each clinic chose to publish in its WhatClinic profile. Top-tier clinics typically populate everything (full weekly hours table, ten+ treatments with starting prices, languages, payment methods, credentials). Smaller or newer listings may publish only a subset; the actor returns null for fields the clinic did not provide rather than guessing.

Does the actor handle multi-currency pricing?

Yes — priceFrom keeps the original display string; priceCurrency exposes the ISO code (EUR, GBP, USD, TRY, THB, INR, HUF, PLN, BRL); priceNumeric is the parsed numeric value with separators stripped.

How do I avoid duplicates when running on a schedule?

The profileUrl field is a stable unique key — upsert against it in your warehouse / CRM. The actor itself deduplicates within a single run; across runs you can compare profileUrl to detect new vs. existing clinics.

Can I run multiple categories and countries in one run?

Yes. The actor builds the Cartesian product of categories × countries × cities. Three categories × five countries = 15 search tasks executed sequentially.

Does the actor capture promoted / featured placement?

Yes — promoted: true is set when the listing carries Featured / Promoted / Premium / Sponsored markers. Useful for tracking who is paying for visibility.

What happens on 403 / 429 / 503?

The browser session closes, a new Apify proxy IP is requested, and the page is retried up to 3 times with exponential backoff. After the third failure the actor logs a warning and moves on rather than crashing the run.

Can I run this on the Apify Free plan?

Yes for small runs (a few hundred listings). Larger / more frequent runs benefit from the paid tier for compute headroom and residential proxy quota.

Can I export to CSV / Excel / JSONL?

Yes — Apify datasets export to JSON, CSV, Excel (XLSX), JSONL, HTML, XML and RSS straight from the dataset UI. The REST API supports streaming JSONL for large warehouse loads.

Is there a "find clinics near a hotel" workflow?

Yes. When scrapeDetails: true, the actor returns latitude and longitude from JSON-LD geo, so you can run a spatial join against your hotel inventory directly. For clinics that don't publish geo in JSON-LD, fall back to geocoding the address + postalCode fields with Google, Mapbox or Nominatim.

How do I report a bug or request a feature?

Open an issue on the Apify Store page for this actor, or contact the developer directly via the Apify Console.

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Related Apify Actors by Haketa

Round out your healthcare and global-business data stack with these complementary actors:

Healthcare & Care

• Bookimed.com Medical Tourism Scraper — patient-facing medical-tourism marketplace covering specialised clinics, doctors and package pricing (perfect sibling for cross-validating WhatClinic data)
• ProductHunt Launches & Makers Scraper — daily startup launches, makers, votes & reviews — VC/founder/recruiter intel

US Healthcare Licensing (for clinics with US footprints)

• Texas Pharmacy License Scraper — TSBP — every pharmacist, pharmacy, intern and tech in Texas
• California DCA Professional License Scraper — California Department of Consumer Affairs
• Ohio eLicense Scraper — Ohio professional licenses
• Illinois IDFPR License Scraper — Illinois licensed professionals
• Virginia DPOR Professional License Scraper
• Colorado Professional License Scraper

Trust, Verification & Compliance

• BBB Business Scraper — Better Business Bureau ratings and complaint history
• SAM.gov Federal Contractor Entity Scraper — US federal contractor entity records

Global Property & Hospitality Adjacencies (for medical-tourism stay bundles)

• Apartments.com Scraper (US)
• Realtor.ca Scraper (Canada)
• Domain.com.au Property Scraper (Australia)

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Comparison vs. Alternatives

Approach	Setup time	Data freshness	Anti-bot handling	Schema normalization	Cost (100 clinics, full detail)
This actor	< 1 minute	Live at run time	Built-in (Playwright + proxy rotation)	Built-in	Pennies via pay-per-event
Manual copy-paste from WhatClinic	Hours per query	Instant	N/A	None	Free + heavy labour
requests / axios script	Hours to days	Live	Fails (TLS fingerprint block)	DIY	Free + dev time
Headless Chrome from scratch	Days to weeks	Live	DIY proxy + cookie + retry logic	DIY	High infra + maintenance
Paid third-party medical-tourism API	Days (sales cycle)	Often stale (cached)	N/A	Vendor-specific	Hundreds to thousands /mo
Hiring a VA team	Days to onboard	Days behind	N/A	Inconsistent	Recurring labour cost

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Why Pay-Per-Event Pricing?

Most data tools either (a) charge a flat monthly subscription you pay even when you don't run anything, or (b) bill per opaque compute unit that's impossible to forecast. This actor uses pay-per-event pricing:

• You only pay for what the actor delivers — per actor start and per dataset item
• Charges scale with the data you actually consume — sampling 20 clinics costs cents
• Line-item billing inside the Apify Console — no surprises
• No monthly minimums, no annual commits, no per-seat fees
• Free to evaluate — start with maxListings: 20 for a fraction of a cent
• Multi-country, multi-category runs cost proportionally; no penalty for breadth

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Changelog

Version	Date	Notes
1.1.0	2026-05	Deep detail-page enrichment — reviews[] (individual testimonials with patient name, origin country, verification method, date, treatment, full text), email, website, latitude, longitude, postalCode, foundingDate, paymentMethods, currenciesAccepted, languages, credentials, socialLinks, ratingScale. Hybrid extractor: comprehensive JSON-LD MedicalClinic harvest + live DOM evaluator via page.evaluate + smart author parser. Verified live on Metropolmed Istanbul (13 testimonials, 5 patient-origin countries).
1.0.0	2026-05	Initial public release — Playwright + Chrome engine, multi-pattern listing parser, JSON-LD profile enrichment, residential-proxy rotation, multi-currency price parsing, pay-per-event pricing

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Support

• Bug reports — open an issue on the Apify Store page for this actor
• Feature requests — same place; please describe your use case so we can prioritise correctly
• Direct contact — through the Apify developer profile (haketa)
• Custom extractions — need a specific country, vertical or schema variant? Reach out and we can scope it

If this actor saves you days of scraper engineering, a 5-star rating on the Apify Store helps other medical-tourism, clinic-tech and healthcare-data teams find it. Thank you!