🩺 RateMDs Physician Review Scraper

🚀 Collect doctor profiles and patient reviews from RateMDs.com in minutes. Filter by specialty, name, gender, verified status, and service options. Export ratings, reviews, contact info, and credentials. No coding, no account required.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-23 · 📊 30+ fields per doctor · 🔍 8 filters · ⭐ Ratings + reviews · 🚫 No auth required

The RateMDs Physician Review Scraper collects doctor profile and review data from RateMDs.com, returning 30+ fields per doctor: name, specialty, ratings (overall, staff, punctuality, helpfulness, knowledge), review count, patient reviews with text, contact info, practice address, credentials, and service availability. Runs support up to 1,000,000 records on a paid plan.

The Actor supports two input modes: direct URL and search filters. Filter by specialty, doctor name, gender, verified status, accepting new patients, online scheduling, and virtual visits.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Healthcare researchers, medical marketing teams, clinic managers, health-tech platforms, patient advocacy groups	Doctor reputation monitoring, practice benchmarking, healthcare market research, patient sentiment analysis, provider directories

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📋 What the RateMDs Scraper does

Two input modes with 8 filters:

• 🔗 URL mode. Paste any RateMDs search or profile URL.
• 🔍 Search filters. Specialty, doctor name, gender, verified, accepting patients, online scheduling, virtual visits.

Each doctor record includes name, specialty, overall rating, sub-ratings (staff, punctuality, helpfulness, knowledge), review count, patient reviews with text, practice address, phone, credentials, and service flags.

💡 Why it matters: monitoring doctor reputation and competitive benchmarking across specialties means browsing profiles one by one. This Actor exports structured physician data at scale, ready for your analytics, reputation dashboards, or provider directories.

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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	Max doctors. Free: limited. Paid: up to 1,000,000.
startUrl	string	""	Direct RateMDs URL. Use this or search filters.
specialty	string	""	Medical specialty filter.
doctorName	string	""	Search by doctor name.
gender	string	""	Filter: male, female.
verified	boolean	false	Verified doctors only.
acceptingNewPatients	boolean	false	Accepting new patients only.
onlineScheduling	boolean	false	Online scheduling available only.
virtualVisits	boolean	false	Virtual visit available only.

Example: verified dermatologists accepting new patients.

{
    "specialty": "Dermatologist",
    "verified": true,
    "acceptingNewPatients": true,
    "maxItems": 50
}

Example: search for a specific doctor.

{
    "doctorName": "Smith",
    "specialty": "Cardiologist",
    "maxItems": 20
}

⚠️ Good to Know: ratings on RateMDs are submitted by patients and reflect subjective experiences. Use alongside official credentials for a complete picture.

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📊 Output

Each doctor record contains 30+ fields. Download the dataset as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🖼️ imageUrl	string | null	"https://www.ratemds.com/images/..."
👨‍⚕️ doctorName	string	"Dr. John Smith"
🏥 specialty	string	"Dermatologist"
⭐ overallRating	number	4.3
📊 staffRating	number	4.1
⏰ punctualityRating	number	3.8
🤝 helpfulnessRating	number	4.5
🧠 knowledgeRating	number	4.6
🔢 reviewCount	number	67
📍 address	string	"123 Medical Dr, Toronto, ON"
📞 phone	string	"(416) 555-1234"
✅ verified	boolean	true
👥 acceptingNewPatients	boolean	true
💻 onlineScheduling	boolean	true
🖥️ virtualVisits	boolean	false
📝 reviews	array	[{ text, rating, date }]
🔗 profileUrl	string	"https://www.ratemds.com/doctor/..."
🕒 scrapedAt	ISO 8601	"2026-04-16T00:00:00.000Z"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
⭐	Multi-dimensional ratings. Overall, staff, punctuality, helpfulness, and knowledge scores.
📝	Patient reviews. Full review text, rating, and date per review.
🔍	8 search filters. Specialty, name, gender, verified, accepting patients, scheduling, virtual visits.
✅	Service availability flags. Accepting patients, online scheduling, virtual visits.
👨‍⚕️	Full profiles. Name, specialty, credentials, address, phone, and image.
⚡	Scalable. From single lookups to full specialty-by-city sweeps.
🚫	No authentication. No RateMDs account needed.

📊 RateMDs has over 2 million doctor ratings across the US and Canada. Structured access to this data powers every provider reputation, patient sentiment, and healthcare market workflow.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ RateMDs Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Full RateMDs catalog	Live per run	specialty, name, gender, verified, services	⚡ 2 min
Manual RateMDs browsing	Free	One profile at a time	Manual	UI only	🕒 Hours per batch
Paid healthcare data platforms	$500-5,000/month	Multi-source	Varies	Many	🐢 Weeks

Pick this Actor when you want doctor ratings and reviews on demand, with service filters, without browsing one profile at a time.

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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 RateMDs Physician Review Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a specialty, set service filters, and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

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

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💼 Business use cases

🏥 Healthcare Marketing Monitor practice reputation across specialties Benchmark ratings against local competitors Track review sentiment over time Identify high-rated doctors for partnerships	📊 Healthcare Research Analyze patient satisfaction by specialty Study rating patterns across regions Build provider quality databases Track service availability trends
🏢 Clinic Management Monitor your practice's online reputation Track competitor doctor ratings Identify service gaps (scheduling, virtual) Build patient feedback reports	💻 Health-Tech Platforms Enrich provider directories with ratings Build doctor recommendation engines Power review aggregation features Add reputation signals to booking flows

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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 RateMDs 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. Monthly pulls keep your reputation dashboard in sync.

🔌 Integrate with any app

RateMDs Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

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

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by RateMDs or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available rating and review data is collected.