# SeniorAdvice Scraper - Senior Living Facility Data (`lulzasaur/senioradvice-scraper`) Actor

Scrape senior living facilities from SeniorAdvice.com — assisted living, nursing homes, memory care & more. Extract names, addresses, phone, ratings, reviews, monthly costs, Medicare ratings, and geo coordinates by city or state. Ideal for senior care lead gen and market research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/senioradvice-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [lulz bot](https://apify.com/lulzasaur) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## SeniorAdvice Scraper — Senior Living Facility Data

Scrape senior living facilities from SeniorAdvice.com, one of the largest US senior care directories. Covers **assisted living, independent living, nursing homes, memory care, care homes, senior apartments, home healthcare, hospice, and adult day care** across every US city and state.

### What you get

For each facility:

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `name` | Facility name |
| `phone` | Contact phone number |
| `streetAddress`, `city`, `state`, `postalCode` | Full address |
| `latitude`, `longitude` | Geo coordinates |
| `rating` | Aggregate rating (1–5) |
| `reviewCount` | Number of reviews |
| `reviews` | Up to 10 recent reviews (author, date, rating, text) |
| `avgMonthlyCost` | Average monthly cost in USD |
| `costSummary` | Cost comparison vs city/state/national averages |
| `medicareRating` | Medicare survey rating (when available) |
| `paymentInfo` | Accepted payment types (Medicare/Medicaid) |
| `priceRange` | Relative price band ($–$$$) |
| `description` | Facility description |
| `careType`, `url`, `imageUrl` | Metadata |

### Input

```json
{
    "careType": "assisted-living",
    "locations": ["houston-tx", "Phoenix, AZ", "florida"],
    "maxListings": 50,
    "scrapeDetails": true
}
```

- **careType** — one of `assisted-living`, `independent-living`, `nursing-homes`, `memory-care`, `care-homes`, `senior-apartments`, `home-healthcare`, `hospice`, `adult-daycare`
- **locations** — city slugs (`houston-tx`), `City, ST` strings, or state names (`florida` expands to its top cities)
- **maxListings** — cap per city (0 = all)
- **scrapeDetails** — `true` for full facility detail (phone, cost, geo, reviews); `false` for fast card-level data

### Example output

```json
{
    "name": "Garden Terrace of Houston",
    "phone": "1-844-393-2598",
    "streetAddress": "7887 Cambridge St",
    "city": "Houston",
    "state": "TX",
    "postalCode": "77054",
    "latitude": 29.691512,
    "longitude": -95.3918771,
    "rating": 2.71,
    "reviewCount": 17,
    "avgMonthlyCost": 6286,
    "medicareRating": 4.4,
    "paymentInfo": "According to our records, Garden Terrace of Houston accepts Medicare and Medicaid.",
    "priceRange": "$$",
    "careType": "assisted-living",
    "url": "https://www.senioradvice.com/providers/view/garden-terrace-of-houston-houston-tx"
}
```

### Use cases

- **Senior care referral & placement agencies** — build and refresh facility databases with cost and rating data
- **Market research** — compare monthly costs and ratings across cities and states
- **Real estate & healthcare investment** — identify underserved markets and facility quality distribution
- **Insurance & lead generation** — enrich contact lists with verified facility details

### Usage notes

- One city page returns up to ~50 facilities
- With `scrapeDetails: true`, each facility page is visited for full data — slower but much richer
- State-name locations expand to up to `maxCitiesPerState` cities (default 10)

# Actor input Schema

## `careType` (type: `string`):

Type of senior care facility to search for.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Cities or states to scrape. Accepts city slugs ('houston-tx'), 'City, ST' format ('Houston, TX'), or state names ('texas'). State names expand to their top cities (see Max Cities per State).

## `maxListings` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of facilities to scrape per city. Set to 0 for unlimited (up to ~50 per city page).

## `scrapeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, visits each facility page for full data: phone, exact address, geo coordinates, average monthly cost, Medicare rating, payment types, and up to 10 reviews. If disabled, returns faster card-level data only (name, address, rating, review count, description).

## `maxCitiesPerState` (type: `integer`):

When a state name is given as a location, scrape at most this many of its cities.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. Not required for basic scraping but recommended for large-scale runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "careType": "assisted-living",
  "locations": [
    "houston-tx",
    "phoenix-az"
  ],
  "maxListings": 50,
  "scrapeDetails": true,
  "maxCitiesPerState": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "careType": "assisted-living",
    "locations": [
        "houston-tx",
        "phoenix-az"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/senioradvice-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "careType": "assisted-living",
    "locations": [
        "houston-tx",
        "phoenix-az",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/senioradvice-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "careType": "assisted-living",
  "locations": [
    "houston-tx",
    "phoenix-az"
  ]
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/senioradvice-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lulzasaur/senioradvice-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/RU1TftIYi37hh2oNV/builds/YQz6pqDjqzgmu2Chw/openapi.json