⛪ ChurchFinder Scraper

🚀 Collect church and place-of-worship data in minutes. Search by state, city, or paste URLs. Export church names, addresses, denominations, and contact info. No coding, no account required.

Pull structured records from Churchfinder — clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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parseforge/churchfinder-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/churchfinder-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: maxItems (integer, default 10), startUrls (array, default ["https://www.churchfinder.com/churches/ny/new-york", "https), state (string), city (string), proxyConfiguration (object). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~churchfinder-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

The ChurchFinder Scraper collects church and place-of-worship listings, returning 15+ fields per record: name, denomination, address, city, state, phone, website, service times, and listing URL. Filter by U.S. state and city.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Religious organizations, nonprofit researchers, community planners, outreach teams, demographic analysts	Church directory building, community outreach, demographic research, ministry planning, nonprofit analysis

📋 What the ChurchFinder Scraper does

• 🔗 URL mode. Paste any ChurchFinder search URL.
• 📍 State filter. Filter by U.S. state.
• 🏙️ City filter. Filter by city within a state.
• 📦 Automatic pagination. Follows pages until maxItems.

Each record includes church name, denomination, full address, phone, website, service times, and listing URL.

💡 Why it matters: building church directories and community outreach lists manually means browsing listing pages one by one. This Actor exports structured worship-community data at scale.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: address, city, claimed, denomination, description, imageUrl, name, phone, scrapedAt, serviceTimes, state, url, zipCode. All 13 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the ChurchFinder Scraper page.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a state and city.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start.
5. 📥 Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab.

⏱️ Total time: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: Independent tool, not affiliated with ChurchFinder. Only publicly available directory data is collected.

🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our contact form or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

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