RICS Find a Member Scraper

Scrape the RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) public member directory at scale. Extract chartered surveyor profiles including contact details, employer information, and professional designations from any country.

Actor ID: morkerr~rics-find-member-scraper

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Use Cases

• Lead Generation — Find qualified surveyors (MRICS, FRICS, AssocRICS) by country for B2B outreach
• Market Research — Analyze the distribution of RICS members across regions and specializations
• Competitor Analysis — Identify firms employing RICS professionals in your target market
• Recruitment — Source chartered surveyors by location, designation, and employer
• CRM Enrichment — Build detailed profiles with phone numbers, emails, and job titles

Data Extracted

Each scraped member record contains:

Field	Description
name	Full name of the member
memberGrade	Professional grade (MRICS, FRICS, AssocRICS, etc.)
designation	Professional designation / specialisation
location	City and country
memberNumber	Unique RICS membership number
qualified	Year or date qualified
employer	Employing organisation
jobTitle	Position within the organisation
phone	Contact telephone number
email	Contact email address
profileUrl	Link to the member's public RICS profile

How It Works

1. Build the search URL with your country filter (empty = all members)
2. Scrape all result pages (25 members per page)
3. Open each member's detail page in parallel (configurable concurrency)
4. Extract employer, job title, phone, and email from the detail page
5. Output all records to the Apify dataset (JSON, CSV, XLSX, XML)

Input Parameters

country

Filter members by country name (e.g. "United Kingdom", "India", "United States"). Leave empty to scrape all countries.

• Type: string
• Default: "" (all countries)

searchUrl (Advanced)

Override the full search URL. Use this if you want to apply multiple filters (first name, last name, town, etc.) that aren't available as separate input fields.

• Type: string
• Default: "" (uses country parameter)

Example:

https://www.rics.org/find-a-member.html?firstname=&lastname=&town=&country=United+Kingdom&member_grade=&expert_witness=&accrediation=&page=1

maxPages

Maximum number of search result pages to scrape (25 results per page). Set to 0 for unlimited.

• Type: integer
• Default: 0 (all pages)

detailConcurrency

Number of member detail pages to open simultaneously. Higher values are faster but use more resources.

• Type: integer
• Default: 3
• Minimum: 1
• Maximum: 10

pageTimeout

Maximum time in milliseconds to wait for the search results page to load.

• Type: integer
• Default: 30000

detailTimeout

Maximum time in milliseconds to wait for each member detail page to load.

• Type: integer
• Default: 30000

proxyConfiguration

Proxy configuration for the scraper. Using proxies helps avoid rate limiting when scraping at scale.

• Type: object
• Default: {"useApifyProxy": true}

Output Schema

Each item in the dataset follows this schema:

{
  "name": "John Smith FRICS",
  "memberGrade": "Fellow",
  "designation": "Valuation Surveyor",
  "location": "London, United Kingdom",
  "memberNumber": "6527115",
  "qualified": "1995",
  "employer": "Smith & Partners Ltd",
  "jobTitle": "Managing Director",
  "phone": "020 7123 4567",
  "email": "john.smith@smithpartners.co.uk",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.rics.org/content/ricsglobal/home/member-detail-page.html#/6527115"
}

Field types

Field	Type	Nullable
name	string	No
memberGrade	string	Yes
designation	string	Yes
location	string	Yes
memberNumber	string	Yes
qualified	string	Yes
employer	string	Yes
jobTitle	string	Yes
phone	string	Yes
email	string	Yes
profileUrl	string	Yes

Pricing

• Pay per result: $0.005 per member record
• Example: Scraping all RICS members in Pakistan (~22 records) costs ~$0.11
• Example: Scraping all RICS members in the United Kingdom (~2,000+ records) costs ~$10

Quick Start

Apify Console

1. Go to the RICS Find a Member Scraper page
2. Enter a country name (e.g. Pakistan) or leave empty for all
3. Click Start — results appear in the dataset when complete

API

curl -X POST https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/morkerr~rics-find-member-scraper/runs \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -d '{"country": "Pakistan"}'

Webhook / Integration

Use the Apify webhook system to send results to your own server, Google Sheets, Slack, or any HTTP endpoint as soon as the run completes.

Technical Notes

• Uses headless Chromium via Playwright for accurate JavaScript rendering
• Respects the RICS website structure — no API abuse
• Built-in delays between requests to avoid rate limiting
• Phone numbers and emails are from publicly visible member profiles only
• Each detail page opens in a separate browser tab for parallel extraction
• Works with Apify proxy to distribute requests across multiple IPs

Limitations

• Only extracts data that is publicly visible on the RICS website
• Some members may not list phone numbers or emails on their public profile
• The RICS website limits results to 25 per page
• Very large countries (UK, USA) may take significant time to scrape all pages