⚖️ 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.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-01 · 📊 13 fields per attorney · ⚖️ 250,000+ California attorneys · 🏛️ official State Bar directory · 🆓 public licensee record

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

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📋 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.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Attorneys to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan at 1,000,000.
searchTerm	string	"Smith"	Name fragment, bar number, or city. The QuickSearch endpoint accepts free text.
soundsLike	boolean	false	When true, broadens to phonetically similar names.

Example: 100 attorneys named Smith.

{
    "maxItems": 100,
    "searchTerm": "Smith"
}

Example: a specific bar number.

{
    "maxItems": 1,
    "searchTerm": "92056"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: the QuickSearch endpoint caps at roughly 500 results before pagination. For broader sweeps, narrow the search by name + city. Email and phone often render as "Not Available" on resigned profiles.

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📊 Output

Each attorney record contains 13 fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🆔 barNumber	string	"92056"
👤 fullName	string	"A. Jeffrey Smith"
🔗 url	string	"https://apps.calbar.ca.gov/attorney/Licensee/Detail/92056"
📜 licenseStatus	string	"Resigned"
🏠 address	string	"5802 London Ln, Dallas, TX 75252"
📞 phone	string | null	"972-380-9568"
📧 email	string | null	"Not Available"
🗺️ county	string | null	null
🏛️ district	string | null	null
📚 sections	string | null	"None"
⚖️ practiceAreas	string | null	"None reported"
🗣️ languages	string | null	"By the attorney:"
🎓 lawSchool	string | null	"Stanford Law School"
🎓 undergradSchool	string | null	"UC Berkeley"
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-05-01T00:52:47.253Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🆓	No login. Reads the public State Bar QuickSearch and Detail endpoints.
🏛️	Authoritative source. The State Bar of California is the official licensee record.
⚡	Parallel detail fetch. 12-way concurrency on per-profile pages.
🔍	Free-text search. Name, bar number, or city in a single query.
🎓	Education fields. Law school and undergraduate school where surfaced.
🚀	Sub-30-second runs. Typical 100-attorney pulls finish in 15 to 30 seconds.
📞	Public contact info. Office address and phone where the attorney makes them public.

📊 In a single 22-second run the Actor returned 100 attorney profiles for the search term "Smith".

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
Manual State Bar lookup	Free	One-shot per query	Live	Manual	Hours per pull
Paid legal directory subscriptions	$$$ subscription	Aggregated	Daily	Built-in	Account setup
Generic web scrapers	$$ subscription	Brittle CSS	Daily	None	Engineer hours
⭐ California State Bar Scraper (this Actor)	Pay-per-event	Per-search up to 500	Live	Free text, sounds-like	None

Same QuickSearch endpoint open to any browser visitor, exposed as structured rows.

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🚀 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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💼 Business use cases

👥 Legal recruiting Source lateral candidates by practice area Filter on county or district for boutique searches Track active vs resigned status across cohorts Pull contact info for outreach campaigns	💼 B2B sales Build prospect lists for legal-tech products Segment by practice area and firm size Cross-reference with social to enrich Run state-wide rollups for territory planning
📰 Journalism Verify counsel of record on a case Track suspended or disbarred attorneys Map firm migrations and partner moves Cite the official State Bar record in reporting	📋 Legal directories Build niche-practice rollups Power attorney-finder web apps Refresh existing directories nightly Validate referrals against the official record

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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

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🔌 Automating California State Bar Scraper

Run this Actor on a schedule, from your codebase, or inside another tool:

• Node.js SDK: see Apify JavaScript client for programmatic runs.
• Python SDK: see Apify Python client for the same flow in Python.
• HTTP API: see Apify API docs for raw REST integration.

Schedule weekly runs against a list of search terms from the Apify Console. Pipe results into your CRM, Google Sheets, S3, BigQuery, or your own webhook with the built-in integrations.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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🔌 Integrate with any app

• Make - drop run results into 1,800+ apps.
• Zapier - trigger automations off completed runs.
• Slack - post run summaries to a channel.
• Google Sheets - sync each run into a spreadsheet.
• Webhooks - notify your own services on run finish.
• Airbyte - load runs into Snowflake, BigQuery, or Postgres.

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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.