Daycare & Preschool Directory Scraper

Scrapes licensed daycare, preschool, and family child-care providers from state regulators in California, Florida, Texas, and New York. Returns license number and status, capacity, contact info, inspection history, and (where available) program enrollment, operating hours, and geo-coordinates in flat JSON.

• California (CA): CDSS Community Care Licensing — ~55,000 licensed providers across 7 facility types.
• Florida (FL): DCF CARES Public Search — ~12,500 licensed and exempt providers, including VPK / Gold Seal / School Readiness program flags.
• Texas (TX): HHS Child Care Search — ~14,500 licensed providers across 5 facility types, including Texas Rising Star quality ratings and deficiency-tier breakdowns.
• New York (NY): OCFS / data.ny.gov — ~16,800 licensed and registered child-care providers across 5 program types, including age-tier capacities and per-facility inspection history.

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Daycare & Preschool Directory Scraper Features

• Searches by ZIP code, city, county, or facility-name keyword. Combine filters to target a specific block or a specific brand statewide.
• Four states in one actor with one consistent output schema. State-specific fields fall back to empty / null sentinels when a regulator does not publish them, so downstream code does not have to branch.
• Florida output includes operating hours by day of week, latitude/longitude, and program flags (Gold Seal, VPK, Head Start, School Readiness, religious-exempt). California output includes a full inspection-and-complaint count breakdown with Type A and Type B violation tallies. Texas output includes the Texas Rising Star quality rating, subsidized-care flag, working hours, and per-inspection deficiency-tier counts (mapped into the same Type A / Type B fields California uses).
• Hits state JSON APIs directly. No browser. CA, TX, and NY run unproxied; FL routes through US residential proxies because the regulator IP-blocks non-US clients.
• Optional listing-only mode for California, Texas, and New York (includeDetails: false) for cheap, fast pulls when you just need contact info.
• License-status filter strips out closed, exempt, or pending facilities before the detail fetch.

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Who Uses Child-Care Provider Data?

• B2B SaaS sales teams — childcare management software (Brightwheel, Procare, HiMama), payroll, and scheduling vendors prospecting licensed centers.
• Curriculum and supply vendors — filter by capacity to target the centers actually buying at scale.
• Insurance brokers — child-care liability is a defined underwriting niche; this gives you the contact set with capacity figures already attached.
• Compliance and screening tools — pull license status, complaint counts, deficiency tiers, and program flags to feed parent-facing review sites or regulatory dashboards.
• PE and M&A research — count centers by county, segment by license type, track new openings and closures over time.
• Local marketing agencies — pitch every preschool in a metro without copying rows out of a clunky search UI like it's 2009.

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How Daycare & Preschool Directory Scraper Works

1. Pick your state (CA, FL, TX, or NY) and your filter. ZIP codes are the most precise. CA and FL cap each query at 250 / 200 records; TX returns all matching records inside a 10-mile radius around the ZIP centroid; NY returns up to 5 000 matching records per ZIP via Socrata pagination. Several ZIPs in one run is the right move for any metro.
2. Choose facility types matching the selected state. CA has 7 license types, FL has 3, TX has 5, NY has 5.
3. The scraper runs each facility-type × filter combination, dedupes by license number, and (for California, Texas, and New York) optionally hits the per-facility detail endpoint to fill in director/contact name, license-renewal date, and inspection visit history. Florida embeds inspection metadata in the search response — no second call needed.
4. Records stream into the dataset as flat JSON. Stop early with maxItems, or let it sweep an entire ZIP set.

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Input

{
    "state": "CA",
    "zips": ["94110", "94103", "94114"],
    "facilityTypes": ["Child Care Center Preschool", "Child Care Center"],
    "includeDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 100
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
state	string	"CA"	US state to search. CA (California), FL (Florida), TX (Texas), or NY (New York).
zips	array	["94110"]	ZIP codes to search. The most precise filter and the recommended starting point.
cities	array	[]	City names. CA / FL: server-capped per query (250 / 200). TX: no server-side city filter — TX falls back to fuzzy keyword matching against provider name and post-filters by city client-side. NY: exact-match against the canonical OCFS city value.
counties	array	[]	County names. CA / FL: coarse server-capped filter. TX: keyword fallback like cities. NY: exact-match against the canonical OCFS county value.
facilityNameKeyword	string	—	Substring match on facility name. Useful for tracking national brands ("KinderCare", "Montessori").
facilityTypes	array	["Child Care Center Preschool", "Child Care Center"]	One or more license types matching the selected state's vocabulary. CA: 7 types; FL: 3; TX: 5; NY: 5. Pick at least one.
statusFilter	string	""	Limit to a specific license status. CA values: Licensed, Closed, Pending Application. FL values: Licensed, Exempt. TX values: Full Permit, Initial Permit, Certified, Registered. NY values: License, Registration, Pending Revocation, Pending Revocation and Denial, Suspended. Empty = all statuses.
includeDetails	boolean	true	California, Texas, and New York — fetches the per-facility detail endpoint or profile page (NY: scrapes inspection history from the public OCFS profile). Set false for a fast, cheap listing-only pull. Florida ignores this flag (the search response already embeds full detail).
maxItems	integer	15	Cap on records returned, 1–50000. Default is conservative for the Apify tester.

California facility types

• Child Care Center Preschool
• Child Care Center
• Child Care - Infant Center
• School Age Child Care Center
• Single Licensed Child Care Center
• Family Child Care Home (Small)
• Family Child Care Home (Large)

Florida facility types

• Child Care Facility — licensed daycare centers and preschools.
• Family Day Care Home — small home-based providers.
• Large Family Child Care Home — larger home-based providers.

Texas facility types

• Licensed Center — licensed daycare centers (the bulk of TX records).
• Licensed Child-Care Home — licensed home providers.
• Registered Child-Care Home — registered (smaller) home providers.
• Small Employer Based Child Care
• Listed Family Home — minimum-regulation home care.

New York facility types

• Day Care Center — licensed daycare centers (DCC).
• Group Family Day Care — group home providers (GFDC).
• Family Day Care — small home-based providers (FDC).
• School-Age Child Care — after-school programs (SACC).
• Small Day Care Center — small licensed centers (SDCC).

California — Montessori centers across SF

{
    "state": "CA",
    "zips": ["94110", "94103", "94114", "94117"],
    "facilityTypes": ["Child Care Center Preschool"],
    "facilityNameKeyword": "Montessori",
    "includeDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 50
}

Florida — Miami ZIP example

{
    "state": "FL",
    "zips": ["33126"],
    "facilityTypes": ["Child Care Facility", "Family Day Care Home", "Large Family Child Care Home"],
    "maxItems": 50
}

Texas — Austin licensed centers

{
    "state": "TX",
    "zips": ["78701", "78745", "78723"],
    "facilityTypes": ["Licensed Center"],
    "includeDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 100
}

New York — Manhattan ZIPs

{
    "state": "NY",
    "zips": ["10002", "10003"],
    "facilityTypes": ["Day Care Center", "Group Family Day Care", "School-Age Child Care"],
    "includeDetails": true,
    "maxItems": 100
}

California — listing-only fast mode

{
    "state": "CA",
    "zips": ["94110"],
    "facilityTypes": ["Child Care Center"],
    "includeDetails": false,
    "maxItems": 200
}

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Output Fields

The output schema is uniform across all three states. Fields a regulator does not publish are emitted as empty strings, null, false, or [] so downstream consumers do not have to branch on state.

California sample

{
    "facilityNumber": "384004339",
    "state": "CA",
    "facilityName": "MISSION KIDS",
    "facilityType": "Child Care Center Preschool",
    "facilityTypeCode": "850",
    "status": "Licensed",
    "licenseeName": "MISSION KIDS",
    "contactName": "MARCHIEL, CHRISTINA M.",
    "capacity": 96,
    "streetAddress": "969 TREAT AVENUE",
    "city": "San Francisco",
    "zip": "94110",
    "county": "San Francisco",
    "phone": "(415) 970-9027",
    "email": "",
    "latitude": null,
    "longitude": null,
    "licenseFirstDate": "2/4/2021",
    "licenseEffectiveDate": "2/4/2021",
    "licenseExpirationDate": "",
    "lastVisitDate": "8/28/2024",
    "dateClosed": "",
    "clientsServed": ["950 - CHILDREN"],
    "comments": "LICENSED TO SERVE CHILDREN AGES TWO TO ENTRY INTO FIRST GRADE.",
    "districtOffice": "SAN BRUNO CC RO",
    "districtOfficePhone": "(650) 266-8800",
    "totalVisits": 4,
    "inspectionVisits": 2,
    "complaintVisits": 1,
    "complaintsTotal": 1,
    "complaintsSubstantiated": 0,
    "complaintsInconclusive": 0,
    "complaintsUnsubstantiated": 1,
    "typeAViolations": 0,
    "typeBViolations": 0,
    "visitDates": ["08/28/2024", "02/13/2023", "12/15/2021", "12/03/2021"],
    "operatingHours": {},
    "programs": [],
    "services": [],
    "isGoldSeal": false,
    "isVPK": false,
    "isHeadStart": false,
    "isReligiousExempt": false,
    "isFaithBased": false,
    "starRating": "",
    "subsidizedChildCare": false,
    "profileUrl": "https://www.ccld.dss.ca.gov/carefacilitysearch/#/FacDetail/384004339",
    "sourceState": "CA",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.ccld.dss.ca.gov/transparencyapi/api/FacilityDetail/384004339",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-27T18:30:41.667Z"
}

Florida sample

{
    "facilityNumber": "C11MD0255",
    "state": "FL",
    "facilityName": "Bamby's Day Care Center And Nursery School Inc",
    "facilityType": "Child Care Facility",
    "facilityTypeCode": "1",
    "status": "Licensed",
    "licenseeName": "",
    "contactName": "",
    "capacity": 75,
    "streetAddress": "860 NW 44th Ave",
    "city": "Miami",
    "zip": "33126",
    "county": "Miami-Dade",
    "phone": "(305) 448-2458",
    "email": "cfranco@bellsouth.net",
    "latitude": 25.78038,
    "longitude": -80.26811,
    "licenseFirstDate": "4/14/1990",
    "licenseEffectiveDate": "",
    "licenseExpirationDate": "4/13/2027",
    "lastVisitDate": "4/5/2023",
    "dateClosed": "",
    "clientsServed": ["After School", "Before School", "Food Served", "Full Day", "Infant Care"],
    "comments": "",
    "districtOffice": "",
    "districtOfficePhone": "",
    "totalVisits": 11,
    "inspectionVisits": 11,
    "complaintVisits": null,
    "complaintsTotal": null,
    "complaintsSubstantiated": null,
    "complaintsInconclusive": null,
    "complaintsUnsubstantiated": null,
    "typeAViolations": null,
    "typeBViolations": null,
    "visitDates": ["4/5/2023", "8/9/2023", "12/12/2023", "3/18/2024", "8/1/2024", "12/2/2024", "3/5/2025", "8/12/2025", "12/12/2025", "1/15/2026", "3/19/2026"],
    "operatingHours": {
        "monday": "6:30AM to 6:30PM",
        "tuesday": "6:30AM to 6:30PM",
        "wednesday": "6:30AM to 6:30PM",
        "thursday": "6:30AM to 6:30PM",
        "friday": "6:30AM to 6:30PM",
        "saturday": "Closed",
        "sunday": "Closed"
    },
    "programs": ["School Readiness", "VPK"],
    "services": ["After School", "Before School", "Food Served", "Full Day", "Infant Care"],
    "isGoldSeal": false,
    "isVPK": true,
    "isHeadStart": false,
    "isReligiousExempt": false,
    "isFaithBased": false,
    "starRating": "",
    "subsidizedChildCare": false,
    "profileUrl": "https://caressearch.myflfamilies.com/PublicSearch?searchText=C11MD0255",
    "sourceState": "FL",
    "sourceUrl": "https://caresapi.myflfamilies.com/api/publicSearch/Search?searchText=C11MD0255&tag=Providers",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-28T07:44:25.542Z"
}

Texas sample

{
    "facilityNumber": "1778596",
    "state": "TX",
    "facilityName": "AISD Blanton Third Base",
    "facilityType": "Licensed Center",
    "facilityTypeCode": "DCC",
    "status": "Full Permit",
    "licenseeName": "",
    "contactName": "",
    "capacity": 170,
    "streetAddress": "5408 Westminster Dr",
    "city": "Austin",
    "zip": "78723",
    "county": "Travis",
    "phone": "(512) 414-0220",
    "email": "",
    "latitude": 30.306568011,
    "longitude": -97.690080962,
    "licenseFirstDate": "8/7/2024",
    "licenseEffectiveDate": "",
    "licenseExpirationDate": "8/7/2026",
    "lastVisitDate": "8/20/2025",
    "dateClosed": "",
    "clientsServed": ["Pre-Kindergarten", "School"],
    "comments": "",
    "districtOffice": "",
    "districtOfficePhone": "",
    "totalVisits": 13,
    "inspectionVisits": 12,
    "complaintVisits": 0,
    "complaintsTotal": null,
    "complaintsSubstantiated": null,
    "complaintsInconclusive": null,
    "complaintsUnsubstantiated": null,
    "typeAViolations": 20,
    "typeBViolations": 0,
    "visitDates": ["8/20/2025", "5/21/2025", "1/28/2025", "7/16/2024", "6/26/2024", "5/14/2024", "3/25/2024", "1/10/2024", "12/15/2023", "11/15/2023", "11/2/2023", "10/26/2023", "7/24/2023"],
    "operatingHours": {
        "allDays": "Mon - Fri: 3:00 PM-6:00 PM"
    },
    "programs": ["Subsidized Child Care"],
    "services": [],
    "isGoldSeal": false,
    "isVPK": false,
    "isHeadStart": false,
    "isReligiousExempt": false,
    "isFaithBased": false,
    "starRating": "3-Star",
    "subsidizedChildCare": true,
    "profileUrl": "https://childcare.hhs.texas.gov/Public/operationdetails?operationId=1451912&resCareFlag=N",
    "sourceState": "TX",
    "sourceUrl": "https://childcare.hhs.texas.gov/__endpoint/ps/daycare/operationDetails/1451912",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-29T13:41:52.867Z"
}

New York sample

{
    "facilityNumber": "40060",
    "state": "NY",
    "facilityName": "Tots-N-Us",
    "facilityType": "Day Care Center",
    "facilityTypeCode": "DCC",
    "status": "License",
    "licenseeName": "Hannah C. Furey",
    "contactName": "Hannah C. Furey",
    "capacity": 91,
    "streetAddress": "1451 Route 300",
    "city": "Newburgh",
    "zip": "12550",
    "county": "Orange",
    "phone": "(845) 564-7215",
    "email": "",
    "latitude": 41.527936,
    "longitude": -74.06919,
    "licenseFirstDate": "4/16/1989",
    "licenseEffectiveDate": "4/15/2023",
    "licenseExpirationDate": "4/14/2027",
    "lastVisitDate": "1/8/2026",
    "dateClosed": "",
    "clientsServed": ["Toddler", "Preschool", "School-Age"],
    "comments": "12 Toddlers, 65 Preschoolers and 14 School-Aged Children",
    "districtOffice": "YRO",
    "districtOfficePhone": "",
    "totalVisits": 10,
    "inspectionVisits": 10,
    "complaintVisits": null,
    "complaintsTotal": null,
    "complaintsSubstantiated": null,
    "complaintsInconclusive": null,
    "complaintsUnsubstantiated": null,
    "typeAViolations": null,
    "typeBViolations": null,
    "visitDates": ["1/8/2026", "12/1/2025", "8/12/2025", "5/30/2025", "3/5/2025", "12/23/2024", "10/24/2024", "8/21/2024", "5/30/2024", "5/2/2024"],
    "operatingHours": {},
    "programs": [],
    "services": [],
    "isGoldSeal": false,
    "isVPK": false,
    "isHeadStart": false,
    "isReligiousExempt": false,
    "isFaithBased": false,
    "starRating": "",
    "subsidizedChildCare": false,
    "profileUrl": "https://hs.ocfs.ny.gov/dcfs/Profile/Index/40060",
    "sourceState": "NY",
    "sourceUrl": "https://data.ny.gov/resource/cb42-qumz.json?facility_id=40060",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-04-29T14:20:25.498Z"
}

Field reference

Field	Type	CA	FL	TX	NY	Description
facilityNumber	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	State-issued license / facility number, unique within state. CA / TX / NY numeric, FL alphanumeric.
state	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	CA, FL, TX, or NY.
facilityName	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	Facility business name. FL appends (DBA <name>) when distinct from the legal name.
facilityType	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	Human-readable facility type.
facilityTypeCode	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	Internal regulator code (CA: 850, 810, 0, …; FL: 1, 2, 4; TX: DCC, GDH, RFH, SEBCC, LH; NY: DCC, GFDC, FDC, SACC, SDCC).
status	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	License status.
licenseeName	string	yes	—	detail	yes	CA always; TX populated only with includeDetails: true (uses the administrative director name); FL not in public feed; NY uses the OCFS provider_name field.
contactName	string	yes	—	detail	yes	Same as licenseeName for TX (director name) and NY (provider name). FL not in public feed.
capacity	integer	yes	yes	yes	yes	Maximum licensed capacity. null when withheld.
streetAddress	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	Physical street address. NY: empty when address_omitted=Y for in-home providers.
city	string	yes	yes	yes	yes
zip	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	5-digit ZIP.
county	string	yes	yes	yes	yes
phone	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	Formatted (XXX) XXX-XXXX when raw digits permit. FL: empty when the provider opted out of public phone display. NY: empty when phone_number_omitted=Y for in-home providers.
email	string	—	yes	yes	—	FL when the provider opted in to public email display; TX when surfaced by HHS; empty for CA and NY (not in public feed).
latitude	number	—	yes	yes	yes	Geocoded latitude. Null for CA.
longitude	number	—	yes	yes	yes	Geocoded longitude. Null for CA.
licenseFirstDate	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	License issue / origination date, M/D/YYYY. NY: facility opened date.
licenseEffectiveDate	string	yes	—	—	yes	Effective date of the current license. CA: license-effective date. NY: most-recent license-issue date (renewal).
licenseExpirationDate	string	—	yes	detail	yes	FL: license expiration. TX: permit-renewal-next-due date (with includeDetails: true). NY: license expiration date. Empty for CA.
lastVisitDate	string	yes	yes	detail	detail	Most recent inspection visit on record. TX and NY require includeDetails: true (NY scrapes from the public OCFS profile page).
dateClosed	string	yes	—	—	—	Closure date when status is Closed. CA only — NY drops closed providers from the active feed.
clientsServed	array	yes	yes	yes	yes	CA: population codes (e.g. 950 - CHILDREN). FL: service tags (e.g. Infant Care). TX: age categories (Infant, Toddler, Pre-Kindergarten, School). NY: derived from non-zero infant_capacity / toddler_capacity / preschool_capacity / school_age_capacity columns.
comments	string	yes	—	—	yes	License-condition notes. CA: COMMENTS field. NY: free-text capacity description (e.g. 12 children, ages 6 weeks to 12 years).
districtOffice	string	yes	—	—	yes	Regional licensing office. CA: District Office name. NY: OCFS region code (e.g. YRO).
districtOfficePhone	string	yes	—	—	—	District office phone. CA only.
totalVisits	integer	yes	yes	detail	detail	All-time count of inspection / investigation visits. TX and NY require includeDetails: true. NY: count of inspections in the past 24 months from the OCFS profile page.
inspectionVisits	integer	yes	yes	detail	detail	CA: routine inspections only. FL: all visits (DCF does not split categories). TX: visits with descType=INSPECTION, requires includeDetails: true. NY: total inspections from the public profile (OCFS does not split categories).
complaintVisits	integer	yes	—	detail	—	CA always. TX: visits with descType=INVESTIGATION, requires includeDetails: true. Null for FL and NY (neither regulator splits visit categories in the public feed).
complaintsTotal	integer	yes	—	—	—	Total complaints filed. CA only.
complaintsSubstantiated	integer	yes	—	—	—	Substantiated allegations. CA only.
complaintsInconclusive	integer	yes	—	—	—	Inconclusive allegations. CA only.
complaintsUnsubstantiated	integer	yes	—	—	—	Unsubstantiated allegations. CA only.
typeAViolations	integer	yes	—	detail	—	CA: Type A (health/safety) violations. TX (detail mode): sum of medium / medium-high / high deficiency tiers across all activities. Null for FL and NY (per-inspection violation counts not in their public feeds).
typeBViolations	integer	yes	—	detail	—	CA: Type B (operational/admin) violations. TX (detail mode): sum of low / medium-low deficiency tiers. Null for FL and NY.
visitDates	array	yes	yes	detail	detail	All visit dates on record (M/D/YYYY). TX and NY require includeDetails: true. NY: past 24 months from the OCFS profile page.
operatingHours	object	—	yes	yes	—	FL: per-day map (e.g. {"monday": "6:30AM to 6:30PM", ...}). TX: single allDays string (free-text from the API). Empty object for CA and NY (not in feed).
programs	array	—	yes	yes	—	FL: subsidy / quality programs (VPK, Gold Seal, School Readiness). TX: ["Subsidized Child Care"] when the operator accepts state subsidies. Empty for CA and NY.
services	array	—	yes	—	—	Care services offered (e.g. Infant Care, After School). FL only.
isGoldSeal	boolean	—	yes	—	—	FL Gold Seal accreditation flag.
isVPK	boolean	—	yes	—	—	FL Voluntary Pre-Kindergarten participation flag.
isHeadStart	boolean	—	yes	—	—	Federal Head Start participation flag.
isReligiousExempt	boolean	—	yes	—	—	FL religious-exempt flag.
isFaithBased	boolean	—	yes	—	—	FL faith-based flag (does not necessarily mean religious-exempt).
starRating	string	—	—	yes	—	Texas Rising Star quality rating (Entry-Level, 2-Star, 3-Star, 4-Star). Empty when the provider has not earned a rating.
subsidizedChildCare	boolean	—	—	yes	—	TX provider accepts state child-care subsidies.
profileUrl	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	Public detail page URL. CA: deep link into Care Facility Search. FL: search-prefilled URL. TX: HHS operationdetails deep link. NY: hs.ocfs.ny.gov/dcfs/Profile/Index/{facility_id}.
sourceState	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	Source state code.
sourceUrl	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	Direct API URL used for this record.
scrapedAt	string	yes	yes	yes	yes	ISO timestamp of extraction.

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FAQ

How do I scrape California childcare provider data?

Set state: "CA" and supply at least one of zips, cities, counties, or facilityNameKeyword. The scraper hits the CDSS Community Care Licensing public transparency API directly. ZIP enumeration is the most reliable mode — the API caps each query at 250 results, so big counties and city-wide queries miss records.

How do I scrape Florida childcare provider data?

Set state: "FL" and supply ZIPs, cities, counties, or a name keyword. The scraper hits the DCF CARES public search API. The API caps each query at 200 records; like California, ZIP enumeration gives the most complete coverage.

How do I scrape Texas childcare provider data?

Set state: "TX" and supply ZIPs (recommended), or a facilityNameKeyword. The scraper hits the HHS Child Care Search public API. Texas does not have a server-side city or county filter — queries on those fields fall back to fuzzy keyword matching against provider name and post-filter results client-side. ZIP enumeration is the recommended mode: each ZIP is converted to a lat/lng centroid and the API returns all licensed providers within a 10-mile radius in a single response (no pagination cap inside that radius).

How much does Daycare & Preschool Directory Scraper cost to run?

Pricing is pay-per-event. $0.10 per actor start, $0.001 per record. A 1,000-record run is about $1.10. Listing-only mode (CA, TX) uses fewer requests but charges the same per record — the cost difference is in run time, not money.

What data can I get?

License number, license status, license dates, capacity, address, and phone for all four states. California adds licensee name, on-site contact, district office, and a full inspection-and-complaint count breakdown. Florida adds email, latitude/longitude, day-of-week operating hours, and program flags (VPK, Gold Seal, Head Start, School Readiness). Texas adds latitude/longitude, the Texas Rising Star quality rating, working hours (single string), subsidized-care flag, and per-inspection deficiency-tier counts mapped into Type A / Type B violation totals. New York adds latitude/longitude, age-tier capacities (infant/toddler/preschool/school-age) flattened into clientsServed, a free-text capacity description in comments, and a 24-month inspection date list in visitDates. None of the regulators publish tuition; accreditation flags are FL Gold Seal and TX Rising Star only.

Can I filter by license status to skip closed or exempt facilities?

Yes — set statusFilter to drop everything else before the detail fetch. California status values: Licensed, Closed, Pending Application. Florida values: Licensed, Exempt. Texas values: Full Permit, Initial Permit, Certified, Registered. New York values: License, Registration, Pending Revocation, Pending Revocation and Denial, Suspended.

Does the actor need proxies?

California, Texas, and New York run unproxied. Florida is routed through Apify residential US proxies because the DCF API IP-blocks non-US clients (silent TCP timeout outside the US). The actor configures this automatically — you do not set proxy options in the input.

How do I scrape New York childcare provider data?

Set state: "NY" and supply ZIPs (recommended), cities, counties, or a name keyword. The scraper hits the New York OCFS dataset on data.ny.gov (the official open-data feed) and, when includeDetails: true, the public OCFS profile page on hs.ocfs.ny.gov for the inspection-history table. NY accepts exact-match city / county filters server-side and supports up to 5 000 records per ZIP via Socrata pagination.

What's the best way to do a statewide pull?

Enumerate all ZIPs in the state and run them in batches. California has ~2,600 ZIPs (~55,000 records); Florida has ~1,000 ZIPs (~12,500 records); Texas has ~2,600 ZIPs (~14,500 records); New York has ~2,200 ZIPs (~16,800 records). Set maxItems high (e.g. 100000) and let it sweep. Texas radius queries return all matching records inside the radius without pagination, so coverage is dense at the metro level. New York paginates each ZIP up to 5 000 records and returns counties as exact-match (Sullivan, Westchester, etc.) for state-wide coverage in a single county pass.

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Why Use Daycare & Preschool Directory Scraper?

• Affordable — $0.001 per record, $0.10 per run. A statewide CA pull (~55,000 facilities) runs about $55. A statewide FL pull (~12,500) is about $12.50. A statewide TX pull (~14,500) is about $14.50. A statewide NY pull (~16,800) is about $16.80.
• Real licensing data — license number, capacity, complaint counts, violation tallies, deficiency tiers, program flags, quality ratings — straight from each state regulator, not a third-party aggregator.
• One actor, four states, one schema — uniform output makes downstream pipelines simpler. Add filters by state field if you need state-specific reporting.
• Direct API access — no browser-rendered SPAs, no captchas, no scraping fragile HTML.