Avvo Lawyers Scraper

Avvo Lawyers Scraper

Avvo Lawyers Scraper extracts structured attorney data from Avvo.com directory pages — no API key, no browser automation, no manual copy-pasting from search results.

Point it at any Avvo state + practice-area directory URL and get names, Avvo ratings, client ratings, contact details, education, bar admissions, awards, and full biographies for every attorney listed — up to 10,000 profiles per run.

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Use the Apify Actor "parsebird/avvo-lawyers-scraper" (Avvo Lawyers Scraper) via the ApifyClient: client.actor("parsebird/avvo-lawyers-scraper").call(run_input={"startUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/personal-injury-lawyer/ca.html", "maxLawyers": 100, "maxListingPages": 20, "proxyConfiguration": {"useApifyProxy": True, "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]}}); inputs are startUrl (string, an Avvo state/practice-area directory URL, required), maxLawyers (integer, default 20, max 10000), maxListingPages (integer, default 10, max 200), and proxyConfiguration (object, defaults to Apify RESIDENTIAL proxy); output items include name, rating, avvoRating, clientRating, reviewCount, practiceAreas, location, firmName, phone, consultationPhone, email, website, streetAddress, city, state, postalCode, licenseYear, yearsLicensed, licenseStates, barAdmissions, languages, education, awards, certifications, bio, tagline, profileUrl, lawyerId, isSponsored, isPro, sourceListingUrl, and scrapedAt; API docs at https://apify.com/parsebird/avvo-lawyers-scraper/api and get an API token at https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations.

What does Avvo Lawyers Scraper do?

Avvo is the largest online lawyer directory in the United States, listing attorney profiles by state and practice area with Avvo Ratings, client reviews, and detailed background information. Avvo Lawyers Scraper crawls a directory listing page you choose (for example, "Bankruptcy & Debt Lawyers in Alabama" or "Personal Injury Lawyers in California"), then opens each attorney's full profile to pull the fields that only exist there — biography, education, bar admissions, languages, and awards.

• ⚖️ Two-step extraction — directory listing pages give ratings and contact info fast; individual attorney profile pages fill in biography, education, licensing history, and credentials.
• 📊 30+ structured data fields per lawyer — name, Avvo Rating (0–10), client star rating, review count, practice areas, full address, phone numbers, website, license year, years licensed, licensed states, bar admissions, languages, education, awards, certifications, and biography.
• 🔍 Any state + practice area combination — works with any public Avvo directory URL (bankruptcy, personal injury, family law, criminal defense, and 20+ other practice areas across all 50 states).
• 🚦 Sponsored vs. organic detection — each record is flagged isSponsored and isPro so you can separate paid placements from organic listings.
• 🌐 Built-in proxy rotation — residential proxy support handles Avvo's Cloudflare protection automatically.
• ⏱️ Scheduling and monitoring — run this Actor on a recurring Apify schedule to track new attorneys, rating changes, or review growth in a market over time.
• 🔌 Full API access — trigger runs and pull results programmatically via the Apify API or official Python and JavaScript clients.
• 📁 Export anywhere — download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML, or push them directly into Google Sheets, Airbyte, Zapier, Make, and other Apify integrations.

What data can you extract from Avvo?

Field	Description
name	Attorney's full name
rating	Best available rating value (Avvo Rating if present, otherwise client rating)
avvoRating	Avvo's proprietary 1–10 rating, when available
clientRating	Aggregated client review score (0–5 stars), when available
reviewCount	Number of reviews or ratings shown
practiceAreas	Practice areas or legal specialties
location	Combined office city, state, and ZIP
firmName	Law firm or office name, when distinct from the attorney's name
phone	Public office phone number
consultationPhone	Avvo's tracked "call for a consultation" number
email	Public email address, when listed
website	External attorney or firm website
streetAddress, city, state, postalCode	Office address components
licenseYear	Earliest year the attorney was admitted to the bar
yearsLicensed	Years since first bar admission
licenseStates	All states or jurisdictions the attorney is licensed in
barAdmissions	Bar associations and professional memberships
languages	Languages listed on the profile
education	Law schools and universities attended
awards	Awards, honors, and Avvo badges (Super Lawyer, Client's Choice, Top Contributor, etc.)
certifications	Board certifications and specialty credentials
bio	Full biography or profile summary
tagline	Short marketing tagline shown on the listing
profileUrl	Canonical Avvo profile URL
lawyerId	Avvo's internal lawyer ID
isSponsored / isPro	Whether the listing is a paid placement / Pro (subscriber) profile
sourceListingUrl	The directory page this record was found on
scrapedAt	ISO timestamp of when the record was collected

How to scrape Avvo lawyer directories

1. Open the Avvo Lawyers Scraper page and click Try for free.
2. Go to avvo.com, pick a practice area and state, and copy the resulting directory URL (e.g. https://www.avvo.com/bankruptcy-debt-lawyer/al.html).
3. Paste it into the Avvo directory URL field.
4. Set Max lawyer profiles and Max directory pages to control run size and cost.
5. For larger runs, keep Proxy configuration on Residential (the default) — Avvo blocks most datacenter IPs.
6. Click Start and watch results populate the dataset in real time.
7. Export the finished dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML from the Storage tab, or pull it via the API.

How much does it cost to scrape Avvo?

Avvo Lawyers Scraper uses Apify's pay-per-event pricing — you're charged only for lawyer profiles actually saved to the dataset, not for compute time.

Plan	Price per 1,000 lawyer profiles
Free	$1.29
Bronze	$1.09
Silver	$0.99
Gold	$0.89

A run with the default maxLawyers: 20 costs a fraction of a cent to a few cents depending on your plan. Scraping 10,000 profiles on the Free plan costs about $12.90. Every Apify account includes monthly platform usage credits that can cover this cost.

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Default	Description
startUrl	String	No	Alabama bankruptcy directory URL	Public Avvo lawyer directory URL, such as a state and practice-area page
maxLawyers	Integer	No	20	Maximum number of lawyer profiles to save, from 1 to 10000
maxListingPages	Integer	No	10	Maximum number of Avvo directory pages to process, from 1 to 200
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Apify Proxy (Residential)	Proxy settings for reliable collection; residential routing is recommended for larger runs

Usage examples

Basic extraction — collect up to 20 bankruptcy lawyer profiles from Alabama:

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/bankruptcy-debt-lawyer/al.html",
  "maxLawyers": 20
}

Larger practice-area collection — collect up to 100 personal injury lawyer profiles while allowing the Actor to process more directory pages:

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/personal-injury-lawyer/ca.html",
  "maxLawyers": 100,
  "maxListingPages": 20
}

Recurring collection with residential proxy routing — a higher result limit for a scheduled market-monitoring run:

{
  "startUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/family-lawyer/tx.html",
  "maxLawyers": 500,
  "maxListingPages": 50,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"]
  }
}

Output example

{
  "name": "Ronald C. Sykstus",
  "rating": 10,
  "avvoRating": 10,
  "clientRating": 4.9,
  "reviewCount": 318,
  "practiceAreas": ["Bankruptcy and Debt", "Military Law", "Chapter 13 Bankruptcy"],
  "location": "Huntsville, AL, 35801",
  "firmName": null,
  "phone": "(256) 539-9899",
  "consultationPhone": "(256) 666-5980",
  "website": "http://www.securityclearancedefenselawyer.com/",
  "city": "Huntsville",
  "state": "AL",
  "postalCode": "35801",
  "licenseYear": 1988,
  "yearsLicensed": 38,
  "licenseStates": ["Tennessee", "Alabama", "District of Columbia", "Illinois"],
  "barAdmissions": ["National Association of Consumer Advocates", "National Association of Veterans Advocates"],
  "languages": ["English"],
  "education": ["Northern Illinois University College of Law", "University of Arizona"],
  "awards": ["Super Lawyer", "Client's Choice", "Top Contributor"],
  "certifications": ["Board Certified in Consumer Bankruptcy Law"],
  "profileUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/35801-al-ronald-sykstus-721004.html",
  "lawyerId": "721004",
  "isSponsored": false,
  "isPro": true,
  "sourceListingUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/bankruptcy-debt-lawyer/al.html",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-12T06:26:43.470Z"
}

Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, HTML, or XML from the Storage tab, or fetch them programmatically via the API.

Python

from apify_client import ApifyClient

client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")
run = client.actor("parsebird/avvo-lawyers-scraper").call(run_input={
    "startUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/personal-injury-lawyer/ca.html",
    "maxLawyers": 100,
    "maxListingPages": 20,
})

for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item["name"], item["rating"], item["phone"])

JavaScript

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' });
const run = await client.actor('parsebird/avvo-lawyers-scraper').call({
    startUrl: 'https://www.avvo.com/personal-injury-lawyer/ca.html',
    maxLawyers: 100,
    maxListingPages: 20,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(items);

Use cases

• Legal marketing agencies building prospect lists of attorneys by practice area and state for outreach campaigns.
• Legal tech and SaaS platforms enriching their own directories or CRMs with structured attorney data.
• Market researchers analyzing attorney density, average ratings, or review volume across states and practice areas.
• Referral networks and legal marketplaces benchmarking competitor rosters and pricing pages.
• Recruiters and legal staffing firms sourcing candidate profiles with education, bar admissions, and experience history.

How it works

1. The Actor fetches your chosen Avvo directory URL and detects the total number of listing pages.
2. It walks the directory (?page=2, ?page=3, ...) up to your maxListingPages limit, extracting each attorney's name, rating, review count, practice areas, and contact details directly from the listing.
3. For every attorney collected, it fetches the individual profile page to pull biography, education, bar admissions, languages, license history, and awards.
4. Records are pushed to the dataset incrementally as they're collected, so you can inspect results while the run is still in progress.
5. The run stops automatically once it reaches maxLawyers, runs out of directory pages, or hits your Actor spending limit.

Is it legal to scrape Avvo?

Yes — Avvo Lawyers Scraper only collects data that is already publicly visible on Avvo.com directory and profile pages, without requiring login or bypassing any paywall. Web scraping of publicly available data is generally considered legal, as established in cases such as hiQ Labs v. LinkedIn. That said, you're responsible for using the collected data in compliance with applicable laws (such as GDPR or CCPA) and Avvo's own terms of service. Read more in Apify's guide to the legality of web scraping.

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FAQ

Do I need an Avvo account or API key? No. The Actor reads publicly available directory and profile pages — no login or API key is required.

Why do some fields come back empty? Not every attorney profile lists every field. Non-Pro (non-subscriber) profiles, for example, typically don't show a consultation phone number or website, and only some attorneys have a listed biography or board certification. Empty fields reflect what's actually published on Avvo, not a scraping error.

What does rating mean versus avvoRating and clientRating? avvoRating is Avvo's own 1–10 attorney rating; clientRating is the aggregated client review score (out of 5 stars). rating returns whichever is available, preferring avvoRating — use the specific field if you need one or the other.

Can I scrape a specific city instead of a whole state? Avvo's directory is organized by state and practice area, not city, at the URL level. Use maxListingPages and post-filter the city field in your results if you need city-level data.

Can I schedule recurring runs? Yes. Use Apify's scheduler to run this Actor daily, weekly, or at any interval, and pair it with the API or webhooks to pipe fresh results into your own systems.

I found a bug or a missing field — where do I report it? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab in Apify Console. Include the directory URL you ran and we'll take a look.