Experts.com Expert Witness Directory Scraper

Scrapes expert witness profiles from experts.com, the largest open expert witness directory with thousands of litigation consultants across every legal specialty. Returns structured contact information, specialties, credentials, categories, and biography — everything a litigator needs to find, vet, and brief a testifying expert.

What This Scraper Extracts

• Full name, professional title, and firm name
• Office address parsed into street, city, state, and ZIP
• Phone number and email address
• Firm and personal website URLs
• Primary specialty derived from the expert's profile title
• All expertise categories from the site's category system
• Keyword credentials from the expert's own profile metadata
• Full biographical narrative or CV summary
• Direct link to the Experts.com profile page

Who Uses Expert Witness Data Like This?

• Litigation attorneys — find testifying experts by specialty and location without spending hours on manual research
• Legal ops teams — build and refresh internal expert rolodexes on demand, across hundreds of specialties
• Jury consultants — research expert backgrounds and specialty coverage for trial preparation
• Insurance companies — maintain pre-vetted expert panels for claims disputes and coverage litigation
• Legal marketing firms — identify and target expert witnesses for service outreach

How It Works

1. Fetches the Experts.com sitemap (cached for 24 hours to minimize bandwidth) to discover all expert witness profile URLs — currently over 500 in the sitemap, with more discoverable via category crawling.
2. Filters to expert profile URLs only, excluding category index and search pages.
3. Crawls profiles in parallel batches of 5, parsing each page with Cheerio to extract contact info, categories, credentials, and biography.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of expert profiles to scrape. Leave empty to scrape all available profiles.

Scrape a Small Sample

{
    "maxItems": 10
}

Scrape the Full Directory

{
    "maxItems": 500
}

Output

Each record in the dataset represents one expert witness profile.

Field	Type	Description
profile_url	string	Full Experts.com profile URL
name	string	Expert's full name
title	string	Professional title or role (when listed)
specialty	string	Primary expert witness specialty
firm_name	string	Company or practice name
firm_website	string	Firm's website URL
address	string	Street address
city	string	City
state	string	State abbreviation
zip	string	ZIP code
phone	string	Office phone number
email	string	Contact email (when listed)
website	string	Expert's personal or firm website
biography	string	Profile narrative or CV summary
categories	string	Expertise categories (pipe-separated)
credentials	string	Keyword credentials from profile metadata (pipe-separated)
services	string	Litigation support services (when listed)
case_types	string	Case types served (when listed)
regions_served	string	Geographic coverage (when listed)
years_experience	string	Years of experience (when listed)
scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 timestamp of the scrape

Sample Output

{
    "profile_url": "https://www.experts.com/expert-witnesses/orthopedic-surgeon-expert-witness-shawn-hayden",
    "name": "Shawn Hayden, MD, PhD",
    "title": "",
    "specialty": "Orthopedic Surgeon",
    "firm_name": "Shawn A Hayden, MD PA",
    "firm_website": "https://www.ontoortho.com",
    "address": "3920 Alma Drive, Suite 100",
    "city": "Plano",
    "state": "TX",
    "zip": "75023",
    "phone": "940-453-0076",
    "email": "",
    "website": "https://www.ontoortho.com",
    "biography": "Dr. Hayden graduated from Harvard College. He received his medical degree from the University of Massachusetts Medical School and his orthopedic training at the Harvard Combined Orthopedics Residency Program...",
    "categories": "IME / DME Observations / Examinations | Medical Devices | Orthopedics / Orthopaedics | Personal Injury Accidents | Surgery: Neck Surgery",
    "credentials": "Medicine | Orthopedic Surgeon | Spine Surgeon | Spine Medicine | Back Injury | Expert Surgeon | IME | Orthopedic Surgery",
    "services": "",
    "case_types": "",
    "regions_served": "",
    "years_experience": "",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-01T07:21:49.434Z"
}