⚖️ California State Bar Scraper

🚀 Pull California attorney profiles from the public State Bar directory. Search by name or bar number. Bulk extract licensed and resigned attorneys. No login.

The California State Bar Scraper queries the public State Bar of California licensee search at apps.calbar.ca.gov and returns attorney profiles for any name or bar number. Each record includes the bar number, full name, license status, mailing address, phone, email, county, district, sections, practice areas, languages, law school, and undergraduate school.

California has more than 250,000 active and inactive attorneys, the largest state bar in the United States. The official State Bar database is the authoritative public licensee record but lacks bulk export. This Actor exposes search and detail-page data as clean structured records for legal recruiting, sales prospecting, and verification work.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Legal recruiters, B2B sales teams, journalists, malpractice researchers, legal directories	Lead generation, attorney verification, lateral recruiting, legal directory builds

📋 What the California State Bar Scraper does

Three filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🔍 Free-text search. Submit a name fragment, bar number, or city; the Actor uses the State Bar's QuickSearch endpoint.
• 🎯 Sounds-like option. Phonetic search broadens results to similar-sounding names.
• ⚡ Parallel detail fetch. Up to 12 concurrent profile fetches keep total run time low even for 100+ attorneys.

Each row reports the bar number, full name as printed on the profile page, license status, mailing address, phone, email, county, district, bar sections, practice areas, languages, law school, and undergraduate school.

💡 Why it matters: the State Bar directory is the canonical public record of every California attorney. Recruiters use it for lateral candidate sourcing. B2B sales teams use it for legal-sector prospecting. Journalists use it to verify representation in stories. Building your own pipeline against the State Bar means handling form-based search and per-profile parsing; this Actor handles all of that.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: address, barNumber, county, district, email, fullName, languages, lawSchool, licenseStatus, phone, practiceAreas, sections, undergradSchool, url. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 🆓 Create a free Apify account. Sign up here and get $5 in free credit.
2. 🔍 Open the Actor. Search for "California State Bar" in the Apify Store.
3. ⚙️ Enter a search term. Name, bar number, or city.
4. ▶️ Click Start. A 100-attorney run typically completes in 15 to 30 seconds.
5. 📥 Download. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from sign-up to first dataset: under five minutes.

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The State Bar of California is a public corporation governed under California state law. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the State Bar. It reads only the publicly-published licensee directory open to any browser visitor.

🆘 Need Help?

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