🔍 Skip Trace People Search

🚀 Find people across the United States by name and state. Pull full names, all known historical addresses with city, state, and ZIP, plus profile URLs. No login, no API key.

The Skip Trace People Search Scraper queries the public Spokeo state directory for any first name, last name, and state combination. Each record includes the full name, name variants from the public record, every known historical address with street, city, state, and ZIP, and the canonical profile URL.

City-level pagination across the top ten cities per state lifts the per-query cap from roughly 30 to 100+ unique people. Skip tracing has long been a manual research task for legal teams, real estate investors, debt collectors, and journalists. This Actor turns the public address record into structured data without manual lookups.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Real estate investors, legal teams, debt recovery, journalists, OSINT researchers	Address verification, asset tracing, contact research, due diligence

📋 What the Skip Trace People Search Scraper does

Four filtering workflows in a single run:

• 👤 Name + state lookup. Submit a first name, last name, and US state.
• 🏙️ City pagination. When the state-level page caps out, the Actor walks the top 10 cities for that state.
• 🔗 Profile URLs. Each record carries a canonical Spokeo profile URL for follow-up research.
• 🏷️ Name variants. The public record often lists middle initials and historical surnames as alias entries.

Each row reports the full name, an array of name variants, an array of historical addresses (each with street, city, state, ZIP, and a combined fullAddress), the profile URL, the original search inputs (first name, last name, state), the source (spokeo), and a scrape timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: the public address record is the foundation of US skip tracing. Real estate investors use it to find off-market property owners. Legal teams use it for service of process. Debt recovery uses it to locate debtors. The state pages on Spokeo are the highest-quality public surface for this data, and city-level pagination is the practical way to break past per-query caps.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: additionalNames, addresses, fullName, profileUrl, scrapedAt, searchedFirstName, searchedLastName, searchedState, source. All 9 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 🆓 Create a free Apify account. Sign up here and get $5 in free credit.
2. 🔍 Open the Actor. Search for "Skip Trace" in the Apify Store.
3. ⚙️ Enter inputs. First name, last name, US state.
4. ▶️ Click Start. A 100-person run typically completes in 15 to 30 seconds.
5. 📥 Download. Export as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from sign-up to first dataset: under five minutes.

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• ⚖️ California State Bar Scraper - look up California attorneys by name or bar number.
• 🏛️ Federal Court Locator Scraper - find the right federal court for filings.
• 🅱️ Bing Search Scraper - run open-web searches on the people you find.
• 🦆 DuckDuckGo Search Scraper - alternative SERP signal for the same lookup.
• 🕰️ Wayback Machine CDX Scraper - audit historical web mentions of a person.

💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more pre-built scrapers and data tools.

Spokeo is a registered trademark of Spokeo, Inc. This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by Spokeo. It reads only the publicly-visible state directory pages every browser can access. Use of skip-trace data is governed by US Fair Credit Reporting Act and state-level rules; verify your use case with counsel.

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