Doctify Scraper

What does Doctify Scraper do?

Doctify Scraper collects healthcare provider profiles from Doctify and returns them as clean, structured data. Run a search on Doctify, open a directory page, paste the URL, press Start, and download a dataset with the provider's name, title, qualifications, specialty, location, average rating, review count, peer recommendations, conditions treated, consultation fees, accepted insurers, languages, professional registrations, phone, email, and the practices they work from with full addresses. Use it for healthcare market research, provider directories, referral lists, and competitor analysis.

Why use Doctify Scraper?

• Directory to dataset – point it at a specialty-and-location search and it collects every provider profile.
• Deep profile data – 25+ fields per provider, including data other tools miss: phone, email, addresses, consultation fees, and the full conditions list with review counts.
• Ratings and recommendations – average rating, total reviews, the review breakdown, and peer recommendation counts.
• Structured practices – each provider's clinics with street address, city, and postcode.
• Clean, normalised output – numbers as numbers, null for missing values, deduplicated by provider.
• Automation ready – schedule runs and connect results to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, or your own API.

What makes this different?

This Actor reads Doctify's own structured profile data, so hard-to-collect fields — direct phone and email, consultation fees, accepted insurers, professional registration numbers, and every practice address — come through consistently rather than being scraped out of page text. It pairs each directory result with its full profile in a single pass.

What data can you extract?

Field	Description
url / slug / id	Profile URL, Doctify slug, and internal ID
type	specialist or practice
name	Provider or practice name
title	Honorific, e.g. "Mr", "Dr", "Professor"
qualifications	Post-nominal qualifications, e.g. "MBBS, BSc, MD"
gender	Provider gender, when published
specialty	Primary specialty
location	Primary city or area
about	Profile biography (plain text)
averageRating	Average patient rating
reviewsTotal	Number of patient reviews
peerRecommendations	Number of peer recommendations from other clinicians
reviewBreakdown	Sub-scores: overall experience, bedside manner, explanation
conditions	Conditions and procedures, each with its review count
phones / emails	Listed contact details
website / bookingLink	Provider website and external booking link, when listed
consultationFees	{ new, followUp, currency } where published
insurers	Accepted private medical insurers
languages	Languages spoken
registrations	Professional bodies with registration number, e.g. GMC
education	Degrees with institution and year
practices	Clinics worked from: name, address, city, postcode
imageUrl	Profile photo or logo URL
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of collection

Everything beyond url, slug, and type needs Open each profile for full details switched on.

How to use Doctify Scraper

1. Open the Actor.
2. On doctify.com, search for a specialty and location and open the results page (its URL looks like /uk/find/<specialty>/<location>/specialists). Copy the URL from your browser.
3. Paste it into Start URLs. Add more URLs to combine several specialties or areas.
4. Set Max profiles per start URL and choose whether to open each profile.
5. Press Start.
6. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML, or use the API.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrls	Array	Yes	Dermatologists in London	Doctify directory pages, or individual profile URLs.
maxItems	Integer	No	20	Maximum profiles to collect per start URL. Ignored for single profile URLs (always one row each).
scrapeDetails	Boolean	No	true	Open each profile for the full field set. Turn off to only collect the profile URLs.
useCache	Boolean	No	false	Reuse profiles collected in an earlier run to speed up recurring runs.
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	UK residential proxy	Proxy settings. A UK residential proxy is used by default and strongly recommended.

Output Data

Each dataset item is one provider. Example (trimmed):

{
    "url": "https://www.doctify.com/uk/specialist/matthew-cauldwell",
    "slug": "matthew-cauldwell",
    "id": "27862",
    "type": "specialist",
    "name": "Matthew Cauldwell",
    "title": "Mr",
    "qualifications": "MBBS, BSc, MD MEd MRCP, MRCOG",
    "gender": "male",
    "specialty": "Obstetrics & Gynaecology",
    "location": "London",
    "averageRating": 5,
    "reviewsTotal": 140,
    "peerRecommendations": 5,
    "reviewBreakdown": { "overallExperience": 5, "bedsideManner": 5, "explanation": 4.99 },
    "conditions": [
        { "name": "Pregnancy", "count": 125 },
        { "name": "Gestational Diabetes", "count": 11 }
    ],
    "phones": ["+447852929233"],
    "emails": ["secretary@example.co.uk"],
    "consultationFees": { "new": 400, "followUp": 300, "currency": "GBP" },
    "insurers": ["Cigna", "WPA"],
    "languages": ["English"],
    "registrations": [{ "body": "General Medical Council", "number": "6163824" }],
    "practices": [
        {
            "name": "The Portland Hospital",
            "address": "205–209 Great Portland Street, London, W1W 5AH",
            "postcode": "W1W 5AH",
            "city": "London"
        }
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-09-01T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Usage Examples

Every dermatologist in a city

• Start URL: a Doctify "dermatology /
• maxItems: 500, scrapeDetails: true

Practice directory for a region

• Start URL: a /uk/find/all/<region>/practices page
• maxItems: 300, scrapeDetails: true

Refresh a shortlist

• Start URLs: several /uk/specialist/<slug> URLs
• scrapeDetails: true

Tips for Best Results

• Search on Doctify with both a specialty and a location before copying the URL – it keeps the run focused.
• Add several start URLs to cover multiple specialties or cities in one run; maxItems applies to each separately.
• Keep the default UK residential proxy on.
• For monitoring, schedule the Actor and enable Use cache.

Known Limitations

• A UK residential proxy is required in practice; the site is behind a CDN with bot protection.
• Directory pagination depth varies by specialty and location; split broad searches into narrower ones for full coverage.
• Contact details, fees, and insurers are only present when the provider has published them.
• Review text is summarised on the profile; this Actor collects the ratings and counts, not every individual review.
• Data reflects what Doctify publishes at run time.

Integrations

Connect results to Google Sheets, Make, Zapier, Slack, or your own systems via the Apify API and webhooks. Schedule runs to keep a dataset current.

Export Formats

JSON, CSV, Excel, and XML from the Dataset tab or the Apify API.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many profiles can I get per run? Up to maxItems per start URL, within the directory's own pagination depth. Use multiple start URLs for wider coverage.

Can I scrape practices as well as individual specialists? Yes. Directory pages ending in /practices and individual /uk/practice/<slug> URLs are both supported.

How are duplicates handled? Providers are deduplicated by profile URL within a run.

Why are some fields null? The provider has not published that information on Doctify, or detail scraping was turned off.

Can I schedule it? Yes, with Apify Schedules. Combine with Use cache to refresh only what changed.

How fresh is the data? Every run loads live pages at run time, unless a profile is served from your cache.

Support

Found a problem or need an extra field? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab in the Apify Console.

Legal / Responsible Use

You are responsible for how you use this Actor and the data it collects, including compliance with Doctify's Terms of Use and applicable laws. Provider profiles contain personal data such as names, photos, phone numbers, and email addresses; if you collect personal data you are responsible for complying with applicable data-protection law (for example the UK GDPR), including having a lawful basis and honouring individuals' rights. Do not use the data for unsolicited marketing.

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