⚖️ Avvo Attorney Profile Scraper

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-05

The Avvo Attorney Profile Scraper collects lawyer data from Avvo.com, with 20+ fields per profile, plus Avvo ratings, client reviews, and endorsement counts.

✨ What Does It Do

This scraper searches Avvo.com for attorneys by practice area and location, then collects detailed profile data. Each result includes the attorney's name, firm, Avvo rating, client reviews, endorsements, practice areas, contact info, education, awards, and more.

Avvo is one of the largest legal directories in the United States with profiles for millions of attorneys. This scraper gives you structured access to that data.

🔧 Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrl	String	Direct Avvo listing URL (overrides practiceArea/location)
practiceArea	String	Type of law (e.g. "personal-injury", "criminal-defense", "family")
location	String	City and state (e.g. "New York, NY")
maxItems	Number	Maximum attorneys to collect (free users: max 100)
includeDetails	Boolean	Fetch full profile pages for complete data (default: true)
maxConcurrency	Number	Parallel requests (1-20, default 3)
proxyConfiguration	Object	Proxy settings (residential recommended)

📊 Output

Each attorney profile includes:

{
    "profileUrl": "https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/10001-ny-john-smith.html",
    "name": "John Smith",
    "firmName": "Smith & Associates",
    "avvoRating": 9.5,
    "avvoRatingLevel": "Superb",
    "reviewCount": 42,
    "reviewRating": 4.8,
    "endorsementCount": 15,
    "practiceAreas": ["Personal Injury", "Car Accidents"],
    "location": "New York, NY",
    "state": "NY",
    "city": "New York",
    "phone": "(212) 555-1234",
    "website": "https://smithlaw.com",
    "bio": "Attorney with 20 years of experience...",
    "licensedSince": "2004",
    "education": ["Harvard Law School - J.D."],
    "awards": ["Super Lawyers Rising Star"],
    "associations": ["New York State Bar Association"],
    "languages": ["English", "Spanish"],
    "freeConsultation": true,
    "scrapedAt": "2026-03-12T06:00:00.000Z"
}

💎 Why Choose This Scraper

• 20+ fields per attorney - ratings, reviews, endorsements, education, awards, and contact info
• Avvo Rating data - the proprietary 1-10 rating with level (Superb, Excellent, etc.)
• Practice area filtering - search by any legal specialty
• Location-based search - find attorneys in any US city or state
• Client review data - review counts and average ratings
• Contact details - phone numbers and website URLs when available
• Free and paid tiers - free users get up to 100 profiles, paid users up to 1 million

📋 How to Use

1. Open the scraper on Apify
2. Enter a practice area (e.g. "criminal-defense") and location (e.g. "Los Angeles, CA")
3. Set maxItems to control how many attorneys to collect
4. Click Start and wait for your data
5. Export results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or connect via API

🎯 Business Use Cases

• Legal market research - analyze attorney density and specialization by region
• Lead generation - build targeted lists of attorneys by practice area and location
• Competitive analysis - compare ratings, reviews, and endorsements across firms
• Legal directories - feed attorney data into your own platform or directory
• Recruitment - find and evaluate attorneys for hiring or partnership opportunities
• Academic research - study legal market dynamics with structured data

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🎯	Built for the job. Scoped specifically to this data source so you skip the parser engineering entirely.
🔖	Structured output. Clean, typed fields ready for analysis, dashboards, or downstream pipelines.
⚡	Fast. Optimized request patterns return results in seconds, not minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run pulls live data, so the dataset reflects the source as of run time.
🌐	No infra to manage. Apify handles proxies, retries, scaling, scheduling, and storage.
🛡️	Reliable. Battle-tested across many runs and edge cases, with graceful error handling.
🚫	No code required. Configure in the UI, run from CLI, schedule via cron, or call from any language with the Apify SDK.

📊 Production-grade structured data without the engineering overhead of building and maintaining your own scraper.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ Avvo Attorney Profile Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full source coverage	Live per run	Source-native filters supported	⚡ 2 min
Build your own scraper	Engineering hours	Full once built	Whenever you maintain it	Custom code	🐢 Days to weeks
Paid managed APIs	$$$ monthly	Vendor-defined	Live	Vendor-defined	⏳ Hours
Third-party data dumps	Varies	Subset, often stale	Periodic	None	🕒 Variable

Pick this Actor when you want broad coverage, server-side filtering, and no pipeline maintenance.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Avvo Attorney Profile Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Configure the input fields in the form (or paste a JSON), then set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Data & Analytics Build trend reports and dashboards from live source data Feed BI tools, warehouses, and ML pipelines with structured records Run periodic snapshots to track changes over time Compare segments, regions, or categories with consistent fields	🏢 Operations & Strategy Monitor competitor moves, pricing, and inventory shifts Build internal directories and lookup tools backed by current data Power workflows that depend on fresh source records Cut manual data-gathering time from hours to minutes
🎯 Marketing & Growth Identify market opportunities and trending topics Research target audiences and customer personas at scale Power lead-generation pipelines with verified records Track sentiment, reviews, or social signals over time	🛠️ Engineering & Product Prototype features that need real-world data without owning a crawler Replace fragile in-house scrapers with a managed Actor Wire datasets into your apps via the Apify API or webhooks Skip the proxy, retry, and parsing maintenance entirely

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

❓ FAQ

Do I need an Avvo account? No. The scraper works without any login or account.

What practice areas can I search? Any practice area listed on Avvo - personal-injury, criminal-defense, family, bankruptcy, immigration, real-estate, employment, tax, and many more.

How many attorneys can I collect? Free users can collect up to 100 profiles per run. Paid users can set maxItems up to 1,000,000.

What's the difference between basic and detailed mode? With includeDetails off, you get profile URLs and names only (fast). With it on, each profile page is visited for full data (slower but complete).

🔗 Integrate

Connect this scraper to your workflow:

• REST API - call the scraper programmatically and fetch results as JSON
• Webhooks - trigger actions when a run completes
• Zapier / Make - automate data flows to Google Sheets, Slack, email, and more
• Google Sheets - export results directly to a spreadsheet
• Python / Node.js - use the Apify client library in your own code

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Avvo Attorney Profile Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe results into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh data into your product backend, or alert your team in Slack.

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🚀 Ready to Start?

Click Start to begin collecting attorney profiles from Avvo. Your data will be ready in minutes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer

This scraper is provided for educational and research purposes. Users are responsible for ensuring their use complies with Avvo's terms of service and applicable laws. The authors are not responsible for any misuse of this tool.

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