# RICS Find a Member Scraper (`morkerr/rics-find-member-scraper`) Actor

Scrape the RICS public member directory. Extracts names, designations, member numbers, locations, phone numbers, emails, and employer details.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/morkerr/rics-find-member-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [morkerr](https://apify.com/morkerr) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Agents, Automation
- **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?

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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.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
# MacOS / Linux
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# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

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

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# README

## RICS Find a Member Scraper

Scrape the [RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors)](https://www.rics.org/) 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`

---

### 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:

```json
{
  "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](https://console.apify.com/actors/loBmXTLCp5ZFoiecE) 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

```bash
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](https://docs.apify.com/webhooks/) 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

# Actor input Schema

## `country` (type: `string`):

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

## `searchUrl` (type: `string`):

Override the default RICS search URL. Leave empty to use the standard find-a-member page with country filter.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

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

## `detailConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

Number of member detail pages to open simultaneously for data extraction.

## `pageTimeout` (type: `integer`):

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

## `detailTimeout` (type: `integer`):

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

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

Proxy settings for the scraper.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "country": "",
  "searchUrl": "",
  "maxPages": 0,
  "detailConcurrency": 3,
  "pageTimeout": 30000,
  "detailTimeout": 30000,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `name` (type: `string`):

Full name of the RICS member, typically including post-nominals (e.g. MRICS, FRICS).

## `memberGrade` (type: `string`):

Professional grade or membership category (e.g. Fellow, Professional Member, AssocRICS, Student).

## `designation` (type: `string`):

Professional specialisation or designation (e.g. Valuation Surveyor, Quantity Surveyor, Building Surveyor).

## `location` (type: `string`):

Geographic location of the member, typically a city and/or country.

## `memberNumber` (type: `string`):

Unique RICS membership identification number.

## `qualified` (type: `string`):

Date or year the member qualified as a chartered surveyor.

## `employer` (type: `string`):

Name of the organisation or company the member works for.

## `jobTitle` (type: `string`):

Position or job title within the employing organisation.

## `phone` (type: `string`):

Publicly listed contact telephone number.

## `email` (type: `string`):

Publicly listed contact email address.

## `profileUrl` (type: `string`):

URL to the member's public RICS profile page on rics.org.

# 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 = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("morkerr/rics-find-member-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 = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("morkerr/rics-find-member-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call morkerr/rics-find-member-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=morkerr/rics-find-member-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "RICS Find a Member Scraper",
        "description": "Scrape the RICS public member directory. Extracts names, designations, member numbers, locations, phone numbers, emails, and employer details.",
        "version": "1.0",
        "x-build-id": "zP66NhpXXO8aQO0T6"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/morkerr~rics-find-member-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-morkerr-rics-find-member-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/morkerr~rics-find-member-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-morkerr-rics-find-member-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/morkerr~rics-find-member-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-morkerr-rics-find-member-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "country": {
                        "title": "Country / Region",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Filter members by country name (e.g. 'United Kingdom', 'India', 'United States'). Leave empty to scrape all countries.",
                        "default": ""
                    },
                    "searchUrl": {
                        "title": "Search URL (Advanced)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Override the default RICS search URL. Leave empty to use the standard find-a-member page with country filter.",
                        "default": ""
                    },
                    "maxPages": {
                        "title": "Max Pages",
                        "minimum": 0,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of search result pages to scrape. Set to 0 to scrape all pages (25 results per page).",
                        "default": 0
                    },
                    "detailConcurrency": {
                        "title": "Detail Concurrency",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "maximum": 10,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Number of member detail pages to open simultaneously for data extraction.",
                        "default": 3
                    },
                    "pageTimeout": {
                        "title": "Page Timeout (ms)",
                        "minimum": 5000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum time in milliseconds to wait for the search results page to load.",
                        "default": 30000
                    },
                    "detailTimeout": {
                        "title": "Detail Timeout (ms)",
                        "minimum": 5000,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum time in milliseconds to wait for each member detail page to load.",
                        "default": 30000
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy Configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Proxy settings for the scraper.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```