⚠️ California Megan's Law Sex Offender Registry Scraper

🚀 Export public sex-offender registry records from California's Megan's Law site in seconds. Search by name, ZIP, city, or county.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-26 · 📊 10+ fields per record · 100,000+ records in CA · California, USA

The California Megan's Law Sex Offender Registry Scraper queries the official meganslaw.ca.gov public registry. Records include the offender's name, photo URL, last-known address fields, and the registry detail URL.

Coverage: Every publicly viewable record on the California Department of Justice Megan's Law public registry.

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Target Audience / Use Cases

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Public safety platforms	Embed registry lookups
Researchers	Geographic and demographic studies
Real-estate tech	Surface registry counts by ZIP
Journalists	Investigate trends
Civic-tech	Build neighborhood-safety tools

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📋 What the California Megan's Law Sex Offender Registry Scraper does

• Searches by last/first name, ZIP, city, or county
• Returns photo and detail URLs
• Captures offender attributes when surfaced
• Outputs JSON, CSV, Excel, XML

💡 Why it matters: Export public sex-offender registry records from California's Megan's Law site in seconds. Search by name, ZIP, city, or county.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	No	10	Max records.

Example 1:

{ "lastName": "Smith", "maxItems": 20 }

Example 2:

{ "zip": "90001", "maxItems": 50 }

⚠️ Good to Know: Always supply the minimum required search fields documented in the input panel; otherwise the actor returns an explanatory error record.

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📊 Output

Sample:

{
  "name": "SMITH, JOHN",
  "detailUrl": "https://meganslaw.ca.gov/cont/details/...",
  "url": "https://meganslaw.ca.gov"
}

Key fields: imageUrl, name, detailUrl, url, source, scrapedAt.

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✨ Why choose this Actor

• 🟢 Official meganslaw.ca.gov source
• 🟢 Filter by ZIP/city/county
• 🟢 Detail URLs preserved
• 🟢 No API key
• 🟢 Up to 1,000,000 paid

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Option	Free	Bulk export	Live
meganslaw.ca.gov site	Yes	No	Yes
State background-check vendors	No	Yes	Yes
ParseForge Megan's Law Scraper	Yes	Yes	Live

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🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit
2. Open this actor
3. Set inputs, click Start
4. Download CSV / Excel / JSON / XML
5. Schedule or integrate

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💼 Business use cases

Neighborhood safety

Build a ZIP-based registry view.

Compliance

Verify roster against registry.

Research

Geographic distribution studies.

Civic tools

Power transparency dashboards.

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🔌 Automating California Megan's Law Sex Offender Registry Scraper

Integrates with Make, Zapier, n8n, Slack, Airbyte, GitHub Actions, Google Drive.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Research

Demographic studies of registry patterns.

Personal

Check the registry for your area.

Non-profit

Victim-advocacy tooling.

Experimentation

GIS overlay experiments.

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

Q: Source? meganslaw.ca.gov public registry.

Q: API key? No.

Q: Real-time? Yes.

Q: Coverage? California.

Q: Output? JSON, CSV, Excel, XML.

Q: Free preview? 10 records.

Q: Bulk size? 1,000,000 paid.

Q: Photos? Yes, photo URLs when published.

Q: Search by ZIP? Yes.

Q: Disclaimer step? Handled automatically.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

Webhooks, REST API, Make, Zapier, Slack, Airbyte, Google Sheets, and more.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: independent tool, not affiliated with the California Department of Justice. Only publicly available data from meganslaw.ca.gov is collected, subject to the site's disclaimer.