⛪ 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.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23 · 📊 15+ fields per church · 📍 State + city filters · ⛪ Denomination data · 🚫 No auth required

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

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📋 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.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
maxItems	integer	10	Max churches.
startUrls	array	[]	Direct ChurchFinder URLs.
state	string	""	U.S. state filter.
city	string	""	City within state.

Example: churches in Austin, Texas.

{ "state": "Texas", "city": "Austin", "maxItems": 50 }

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📊 Output

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
⛪ name	string	"Grace Community Church"
📋 denomination	string	"Baptist"
📍 address	string	"123 Faith Ave, Austin, TX"
🏙️ city	string	"Austin"
🏳️ state	string	"TX"
📞 phone	string	"(512) 555-1234"
🌐 website	string | null	"https://gracecc.org"
🕒 serviceTimes	string | null	"Sunday 9:00am, 11:00am"
🔗 url	string	"https://www.churchfinder.com/..."
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-04-16T00:00:00.000Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
📍	State + city filters. Targeted geographic search.
⛪	Denomination data. Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Non-Denominational, etc.
📞	Contact info. Phone and website per church.
🕒	Service times. Worship schedule when available.
⚡	Scalable. Single lookups to full state sweeps.
🚫	No authentication. Public listing data.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Filters	Setup
⭐ ChurchFinder Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit	ChurchFinder listings	state, city	⚡ 2 min
Manual browsing	Free	One at a time	UI only	🕒 Hours
Google Maps search	Free	Broad	Location	🕒 Manual

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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 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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💼 Business use cases

⛪ Religious Organizations Build church directories Plan community outreach Find partnership churches Track denomination presence

📊 Research & Planning Study religious demographics Map worship communities Analyze denomination distribution Build nonprofit databases

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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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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔌 Automating ChurchFinder Scraper

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

🔌 Integrate with any app

• Make - Automate workflows
• Zapier - Connect 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get notifications
• Airbyte - Data pipelines
• GitHub - Trigger from commits
• Google Drive - Export to Sheets

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