🏛️ UK Parliament Members Scraper (MPs & Lords)

🚀 Export the UK Parliament directory in seconds. Pull every MP in the House of Commons and every peer in the House of Lords, with biographies, parties, constituencies, contact details, government posts, and committee memberships. No sign-up, no manual stitching, no parser to maintain.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-15 · 📊 31 fields per record · 🏛️ 1,450+ current members · 🇬🇧 Both Houses · 📜 Historic + current

The UK Parliament Members Scraper queries the official UK Parliament Members directory and returns up to 31 structured fields per record, including the canonical display name and full title, party affiliation with party colour, House of Commons constituency, House of Lords seat type, government and opposition posts, committee memberships, parliamentary contact address, phone, email, websites, and social-media handles.

The directory covers every currently sitting MP and peer plus every former member going back through the modern era, across all parties from Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, SNP, Reform UK, Sinn Féin, the Lords Spiritual, Crossbench, and beyond. This Actor makes that data downloadable as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML in under five minutes. Filters run server-side, so you skip the parser engineering entirely.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Public-affairs and government-relations teams, journalists and political researchers, lobbyists, NGOs, civic-tech projects, academic political scientists, CRM enrichment platforms	Stakeholder mapping, MP and peer outreach lists, constituency contact, committee tracking, voting-record context, party-composition analysis, lobbyist registers

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📋 What the UK Parliament Members Scraper does

Six filtering workflows in a single run:

• 🏛️ House filter. Restrict to Commons (MPs), Lords (peers), or both chambers.
• 🎗️ Party filter. Pick a single party from a curated list of every active and historic UK political party.
• 👤 Gender filter. Male, female, or all.
• 📍 Constituency substring. Match Commons members whose constituency name contains a substring (e.g. "London", "Glasgow").
• 🚦 Current vs former. Currently sitting members, former members only, or all (current + former).
• 🔎 Name substring. Match the display name on a case-insensitive substring.

Each record includes the member ID, official photo URL, public profile URL, four name variants (display, full title, list-as, address-as), gender, House, party (name, abbreviation, ID, official party colour), constituency and constituency ID, membership start and end dates, current-member flag, full constituency history, every government post and opposition post with dates and department, committee memberships, parliamentary contact phone numbers, emails, websites, X / Facebook / Instagram links, and the canonical House of Commons / House of Lords address with postcode.

💡 Why it matters: structured Parliament member data drives stakeholder mapping, public-affairs CRM enrichment, and political-research dashboards. Building your own pipeline means writing a paginated client, fetching three sub-resources per member, normalising contact channels, and refreshing daily. This Actor skips all of that and gives you a clean refreshed snapshot on every run.

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🎬 Full Demo

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

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
name	string	""	Substring match on the member's display name.
house	string	""	One of: empty (both), Commons, Lords.
party	string	""	One of 20+ parties (Labour, Conservative, Liberal Democrat, SNP, Reform UK, Crossbench, Bishops, and more).
gender	string	""	Empty (all), M, or F.
membershipStatus	string	"current"	Currently sitting, former, or all (current + former).
constituency	string	""	Substring match on the Commons constituency name (ignored for Lords).
fetchDetails	boolean	true	When enabled, pulls biography (committees, posts, representations) and contact details per member.
maxItems	integer	10	Records to return. Free plan caps at 10, paid plan at 1,000,000.

Example: every currently sitting Labour MP with full biography and contact.

{
    "maxItems": 500,
    "house": "Commons",
    "party": "Labour",
    "membershipStatus": "current",
    "fetchDetails": true
}

Example: female peers in the House of Lords.

{
    "maxItems": 200,
    "house": "Lords",
    "gender": "F",
    "membershipStatus": "current"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: with fetchDetails: true (default) the Actor makes additional lookups per member to gather biography and contact records. That's the canonical experience but it's slower than a names-only pull. Set fetchDetails: false for a quick directory listing.

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📊 Output

Each member record carries up to 31 fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🆔 id	number	172
🖼️ imageUrl	string	"https://members-api.parliament.uk/api/Members/172/Thumbnail"
🔗 profileUrl	string	"https://members.parliament.uk/member/172"
📌 nameDisplayAs	string	"Ms Diane Abbott"
📌 nameFullTitle	string	"Rt Hon Diane Abbott MP"
📌 nameListAs	string	"Abbott, Ms Diane"
📌 nameAddressAs	string	"Ms Abbott"
👤 gender	string	"F"
🏛️ house	string	"Commons"
📍 constituency	string | null	"Hackney North and Stoke Newington"
🆔 constituencyId	number | null	4074
📅 membershipStartDate	ISO 8601	"1987-06-11T00:00:00"
📅 membershipEndDate	ISO 8601 | null	null
📝 membershipEndReason	string | null	null
🚦 isCurrentMember	boolean	true
📝 membershipStatusDescription	string	"Current Member"
🏛️ partyName	string	"Independent"
🏷️ partyAbbreviation	string	"Ind"
🆔 partyId	number	8
🎨 partyColor	string	"#909090"
📜 constituencyHistory	array	[{house, constituency, startDate, endDate, note}]
💼 governmentPosts	array	[{name, startDate, endDate, department}]
💼 oppositionPosts	array	[{name, startDate, endDate, department}]
💼 committeeMemberships	array	[{name, startDate, endDate}]
📞 phoneNumbers	array	["020 7219 4426"]
📧 emails	array	["diane.abbott.office@parliament.uk"]
🔗 websites	array	["http://www.dianeabbott.org.uk"]
🔗 socialLinks	array	[{type: "X", url: "https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott"}]
🏠 parliamentaryAddress	string	"House of Commons, London"
📮 parliamentaryPostcode	string	"SW1A 0AA"
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-05-15T18:33:41.998Z"

📦 Sample record

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🏛️	Both Houses. 1,450+ current MPs and Lords plus historic former members in a single run.
🎯	Multi-dimensional filters. House, party, gender, constituency, current / former, and name combine freely.
💼	Career history included. Government posts, opposition posts, committee memberships, and constituency history per member.
📞	Contact-ready. Parliamentary address, phone, email, websites, and X / Facebook / Instagram per record.
⚡	Fast. 100 members in seconds, full directory in a few minutes.
🔁	Always fresh. Every run hits the official directory, so the dataset reflects current members.
🚫	No authentication. Public open-government data. No login needed.

📊 Structured Parliament member data sits at the heart of every public-affairs CRM, lobbyist register, and political-research dashboard in the UK.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ UK Parliament Members Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	1,450+ current + historic	Live per run	house, party, gender, constituency, status, name	⚡ 2 min
Commercial public-affairs platforms	$15k - $80k/year	Comparable + voting records	Daily	Many	🐢 Weeks (procurement)
TheyWorkForYou scraping	Free	Limited fields	Daily	Few	🕒 Days
Manual copy-paste from members.parliament.uk	Free	Whole directory	Live	Site-side	⏳ Forever

Pick this Actor when you want a structured, contact-ready directory of every UK parliamentarian without writing a parser.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account w/ $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the UK Parliament Members Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a House, a party, a gender, a constituency substring, and set maxItems. Toggle fetchDetails for full biography + contact.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your dataset.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to a downloaded MPs / Lords dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

🏛️ Public Affairs & Lobbying Stakeholder mapping for policy campaigns Outreach lists by party, House, or committee Refresh CRM contact records each session Track Cabinet and Shadow Cabinet posts in real time	📰 Political Journalism & Research Build party-composition snapshots after elections Track committee membership changes by session Cross-join with Hansard transcripts for speech analysis Power explainer dashboards on cabinet reshuffles
🎯 Constituency Targeting Map MPs to constituencies for civic-tech tools Build "Find your MP" widgets with structured contact info Surface party-coloured visuals in dashboards Power email-your-MP workflows for campaign sites	📊 Civic Analytics & NGOs Diversity reporting by gender, party, and House Tenure analysis across constituency histories Committee participation patterns over decades Open-data dashboards for civic-tech communities

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🔌 Automating UK Parliament Members Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

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

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Daily refreshes keep your stakeholder map and CRM in sync automatically.

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Open Parliament data powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Quantitative studies of parliamentary careers and turnover Politics coursework on party composition over time Reproducible datasets for representation and diversity research Historical archives of constituency boundary changes	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects mapping MPs to constituencies on a UK map Personal newsletters that profile newly elected members Visualisations of party colours in the Commons chamber Data-art pieces on the demographics of Parliament
🤝 Non-profit and civic Civic-tech tools that connect citizens with their MP Watchdog dashboards tracking ministerial appointments Investigative journalism on committee compositions Accessibility projects that present member data clearly	🧪 Experimentation Train named-entity models with UK political figures Build agent pipelines that summarise career histories Prototype recommender systems for civic engagement Stress-test contact-form workflows with real member data

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🤖 Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

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• 💬 ChatGPT
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• 🅒 Copilot

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

🧩 How does it work?

Pick a House, party, gender, or constituency substring, click Start, and the Actor pages through the official Parliament directory, optionally fetches biography and contact records per member, and emits a clean structured row. No browser automation, no captchas, no setup.

📏 How accurate is the data?

Every record comes from the official UK Parliament Members directory used by members.parliament.uk itself, so names, parties, constituencies, posts, and contact channels match what you see on the page.

🔁 How often is the dataset refreshed?

The directory is updated continuously as elections, by-elections, peerage creations, ministerial reshuffles, and resignations take place. Every run hits the live directory.

🏛️ Does it include both MPs and Lords?

Yes. Leave the house filter empty to return both Houses, or set it to Commons for MPs only and Lords for peers only.

💼 Are committees and government posts included?

Yes. Set fetchDetails: true (default) and each record will include constituency history, government posts, opposition posts, and committee memberships with dates and departments.

📞 Are contact details included?

Yes. Parliamentary address, postcode, phone numbers, emails, websites, and X / Facebook / Instagram links are emitted when present. Some members opt out of publishing certain channels, in which case those fields are omitted.

🕰️ Can I get former members?

Yes. Set membershipStatus to former for former members only or all for current + former.

⏰ Can I schedule regular runs?

Yes. Use Apify Schedules to run this Actor on any cron interval (daily, weekly) and keep your CRM stakeholder map in sync.

⚖️ Is this data legal to use?

UK Parliament publishes member directory data under the Open Parliament Licence, which permits commercial reuse with attribution. Review the licence terms for your specific application.

💼 Can I use this data commercially?

Yes. The Open Parliament Licence explicitly allows commercial reuse with attribution. You remain responsible for following the licence in your product.

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to use this Actor?

No. The free Apify plan is enough for testing and small runs (10 records per run). A paid plan lifts the limit and gives you scheduling, higher concurrency, and larger datasets.

🆘 What if I need help?

Our support team is here to help. Contact us through the Apify platform or use the Tally form linked below.

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🔌 Integrate with any app

UK Parliament Members Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step stakeholder workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get reshuffle alerts in your channels
• Airbyte - Pipe member data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits and releases
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes. Push fresh member records into your CRM, or alert your public-affairs team in Slack.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by the UK Parliament, the House of Commons, or the House of Lords. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available open Parliament data is collected, under the Open Parliament Licence.