💍 The Knot Wedding Vendor Scraper

🚀 Pull wedding vendors from The Knot marketplace in seconds. Photographers, florists, venues, caterers, planners, DJs, and 19 more vendor categories. Per-vendor pricing, star ratings, review counts, awards, contact info, and image galleries. No API key, no registration, no manual CSV wrangling.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-05-17 · 📊 41 fields per record · 25 vendor categories · Nationwide US coverage · Pricing, ratings, awards, contact info

The Knot is the largest wedding marketplace in the United States, indexing tens of thousands of vetted vendors across 25 categories. This Actor reads The Knot's marketplace listing pages directly and returns each vendor as a single flat record with every public field flattened into one row. It handles pagination automatically (30 listings per page, up to 333 pages per category and location), surfaces the listing-level data immediately, and optionally enriches every record by fetching the vendor's profile page to add phone, email, website, social handles, the full bio, and the full award history.

Each record carries the data couples and planners actually care about: name, category, city, state, service area, star rating, review count, price range, starting price band, Best of Weddings award status, premium tier, claimed status, business attributes (Woman-owned, Black-owned, Asian-owned, LGBTQ-owned, Veteran-owned), photo and video styles, services offered, contact info, social links, and the full image gallery. Vendors that opt to publish their physical address get address and postalCode populated; the rest expose city, state, and serviceArea only. Errors are pushed as rows with an error column so a single bad URL never breaks the run.

🎯 Target Audience	🛠 Primary Use Cases
Wedding planners and event coordinators	Vendor shortlists by city, budget band, and review threshold
Event-planning SaaS and marketplaces	Power a vendor directory with rich profile cards
Local vendor marketing platforms	Lead-gen lists by category, city, and tier
Wedding bloggers and YouTubers	Roundups of top-rated vendors with images
Marriage and demographics researchers	Pricing-band distributions across markets
Local SEO and listing-quality teams	Audit which competitors hold paid placements

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📋 What the The Knot Wedding Vendor Scraper does

• 💒 25 vendor categories. Reception venues, photographers, videographers, florists, caterers, DJs, bands, planners, bakers, bridal salons, beauty, jewelers, officiants, photo booths, transportation, decor, rentals, invitations, favors, dance lessons, soloists and ensembles, bar services, hotel room blocks, rehearsal-dinner spaces, and travel specialists.
• 📍 Any US city. Paste any city + state marketplace URL (/marketplace/wedding-photographers-new-york-ny) or pick a category and location from dropdowns. The Actor walks every page of results, 30 listings at a time, until your maxItems cap or the last page.
• 💰 Real prices and price bands. When a vendor publishes a numeric range you get priceMin and priceMax in dollars. The Knot's quintile band ($, $$, $$$, $$$$, $$$$$) is also surfaced as startingPriceRange in human-readable form.
• 🏆 Award history. Every Best of Weddings year a vendor has won is in awards. Hall of Fame status is a separate boolean. This is the same award data couples filter on inside The Knot's UI.
• ☎️ Contact info enrichment. Flip the includeDetails switch and the Actor fetches each vendor's profile page to add phone, email, website, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and Twitter handles plus the full bio and category-specific facets (photo styles, catering options, capacity ranges).
• ⭐ Reviews and ratings. Star rating to one decimal place and total review count come from the listing card and are populated for every published vendor.

Every record carries 41 fields: image URL, name, category slug, headline, full description, listing URL, vendor ID, profile ID, address, city, state, postal code, service area, star rating, review count, price min and max, starting price band, vendor tier, ad tier, claimed, paid, quick responder, Best of Weddings, Hall of Fame, awards array, business attributes, photo and video styles, services offered, phone, email, website, four social handles, photo count, video count, image gallery, and a scrapedAt timestamp. Errors get pushed with an error column so one bad input never stops the run.

💡 Why it matters: Wedding planning is a multi-billion-dollar local-services market where vendors compete on photos, reviews, and price bands. The Knot is the dominant directory. Pulling structured data out of it powers vendor shortlists, comparison sites, lead lists, market-rate research, and trend dashboards without screen-scraping HTML on your own.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing a single-city pull, multi-category batching, profile-page enrichment, and dropping the dataset into a Google Sheet for couples to filter.

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⚙️ Input

Field	Type	Required	Description
startUrls	array of strings	No	One or more The Knot marketplace URLs. Paste category + city URLs (/marketplace/wedding-photographers-new-york-ny) or individual vendor profile URLs. Leave empty to use the structured inputs below.
maxItems	integer	No	Free plans cap at 10. Paid plans up to 1,000,000.
category	enum	No	Vendor category slug (25 options). Used with city + stateCode when startUrls is empty.
city	string	No	Lowercase hyphenated city (new-york, los-angeles, chicago).
stateCode	enum	No	Two-letter US state code (50 states + DC).
sort	enum	No	recommended (default), featured, popular, newest, rating.
includeDetails	boolean	No	Visit every vendor's profile page to pull phone, email, website, socials, full bio, awards. Slower (one extra request per vendor) but much richer.

Example: top 25 wedding photographers in New York City, with profile-page enrichment so you get phone, email, and socials.

{
  "startUrls": ["https://www.theknot.com/marketplace/wedding-photographers-new-york-ny"],
  "maxItems": 25,
  "sort": "recommended",
  "includeDetails": true
}

Example: structured search for highest-rated florists in Los Angeles, listing-only mode.

{
  "category": "florists",
  "city": "los-angeles",
  "stateCode": "ca",
  "sort": "rating",
  "maxItems": 50,
  "includeDetails": false
}

⚠️ Good to Know: The Knot exposes physical addresses only for vendors that opt to publish them (typically venues and brick-and-mortar shops). Service-area vendors like photographers, DJs, and planners expose city, state, and serviceArea but leave address and postalCode empty. That is source behaviour, not a scraper bug. Price bands and review counts are populated for every published vendor.

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📊 Output

Every record is one row in your dataset. Field set is identical across every category; only the relevant subset is populated per vendor (e.g. photo styles for photographers, capacity ranges for venues).

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
🖼️ imageUrl	string	https://media-api.xogrp.com/images/3f31e926-417b-4d5c-af88-623092f6433d
🏷️ name	string	Dreamlife Wedding Photo & Video
📂 category	string	Wedding Photographers
🔖 categorySlug	string	wedding-photographers
📝 headline	string	Top Choice for Wedding Photography and Videography
📜 description	string	Our team of professional photographers ...
🔗 url	string	https://www.theknot.com/marketplace/dreamlife-wedding-photo-and-video-new-york-ny-841255
🆔 vendorId	string	555cb900-744f-4b82-b88c-cc2c4741c2d0
🪪 profileId	string	c2f5b7ea-82e1-4003-97b3-a41a00e7209d
🏠 address	string	101 Ave of the Americas FL 9
🏙️ city	string	New York
🗺️ state	string	NY
📮 postalCode	string	10013
📍 serviceArea	string	Coast to Coast
⭐ rating	number	4.9
💬 reviewCount	number	187
💰 priceMin	number	1590
💰 priceMax	number	7150
💲 startingPriceRange	string	$1,000-$1,999
🏷️ vendorTier	string	PREMIUM
🥇 adTier	string	PLATINUM
✅ isClaimed	boolean	true
💳 isPaid	boolean	true
⚡ quickResponder	boolean	true
🏆 isBestOfWeddings	boolean	true
👑 isHallOfFame	boolean	true
🏅 awards	string array	["BOW2024","BOW2025","BOW2026","BOWHOF"]
🌈 businessAttributes	string array	["Woman-owned Business"]
🎨 styles	string array	["Artistic","Classic","Documentary"]
🛠️ services	string array	["Engagement","Digital Files","Drone"]
📞 phone	string	(917) 388-2835
📧 email	string	newyork@dreamlifeweddings.com
🌐 website	string	http://www.dreamlifewedding.com
📘 facebookUrl	string	https://www.facebook.com/dreamlifeweddingsusa
📷 instagramUsername	string	dreamlifeweddingsusa
📌 pinterestUsername	string	eivans
🐦 twitterUsername	string	eivansinc
📸 photoCount	number	151
🎬 videoCount	number	3
🖼️ images	string array	gallery URLs
⏱️ scrapedAt	datetime	2026-05-17T21:27:25.663Z
⚠️ error	string	only present on failed records

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
🗂️	All 25 vendor categories in one Actor. Photographers, venues, florists, caterers, DJs, bands, planners, bakers, jewelers, officiants, decor, rentals, transportation, and more. No per-category code.
💸	Real prices, not just ranges. Numeric priceMin and priceMax in dollars when the vendor publishes a band, plus the human-readable $-tier label every record carries.
🏆	Full award history. Every Best of Weddings year a vendor has won, plus Hall of Fame status. Same data couples filter on inside The Knot's UI.
☎️	Optional contact-info enrichment. One toggle pulls phone, email, website, and four social handles from each vendor's profile page.
📈	Pagination handled for you. The Actor walks every page of results until maxItems is hit or the last page is reached.
🛡️	Quiet on errors. Failed pages get pushed as rows with an error column. One bad URL never stops the run.
💼	Pay-per-event ready. Charging mode auto-detected. Run on a fixed-rental plan or pay only for successful records.

📊 The Knot is the largest wedding directory in the US and indexes vendors across all 50 states plus DC. NYC alone shows 313+ photographers; LA shows 247+ florists; mid-tier metros routinely list 50-200 vendors per category.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Filters	Setup
⭐ The Knot Wedding Vendor Scraper (this Actor)	Free tier + low pay-per-use	25 categories, 50 states	On-demand or scheduled	Category, city, state, sort, awards	30 seconds
Manual copy-paste from the site	Free but slow	Whatever you click	Manual	None	Hours per city
Paid lead-gen B2B platforms	$500-$5,000/month	Mixed	Periodic	Per-vendor account	Sales call required
Legacy community CSV dumps	Free	Outdated	Static	Whatever shipped	Hours of cleanup
Roll-your-own scraper	Engineering time	Whatever you build	Whatever you build	Whatever you code	Days to weeks

Use the comparison as a rough heuristic. If your workflow needs current vendor data with one consistent schema across every category and city, this Actor is the fastest path.

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🚀 How to use

1. 🔐 Sign up. Create a free Apify account at console.apify.com/sign-up. No credit card required for the free tier.
2. 🎯 Pick a target. Either paste a marketplace URL (e.g. https://www.theknot.com/marketplace/florists-chicago-il) or pick a category + city + state from the dropdowns.
3. ⚙️ Tune the run. Set maxItems, pick a sort order, and decide whether to flip on includeDetails for contact-info enrichment.
4. ▶️ Click Run. The Actor walks every page of results, pushes one row per vendor, and saves images and gallery URLs as arrays.
5. 📤 Export. Download as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, RSS, or HTML. Or wire up Apify's Webhooks to drop new records straight into Sheets, Slack, or your database.

⏱️ Total time: under a minute from sign-up to first export.

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💼 Business use cases

💒 Wedding planners and coordinators Build short-lists by city, category, and review threshold Track who is Best of Weddings or Hall of Fame in your market Compare price bands across rival vendors Maintain a private vendor CRM with phone and email	📱 Wedding-tech SaaS and marketplaces Power a vendor-directory feature with rich profile cards Seed a new region with thousands of vendors in one run Refresh photos, ratings, and review counts on a schedule A/B test recommendation models on a real-world directory
📣 Local vendor marketing Generate lead lists by category, city, and tier Find non-claimed vendors to pitch claim-and-promote services Build a competitor scoreboard with award counts and review velocity Spot under-promoted vendors with high ratings but low impressions	🧪 Researchers and journalists Pricing-band distributions across markets Award concentration analysis (who holds Hall of Fame status) Diversity and ownership-attribute breakdowns per metro Longitudinal coverage of vendor churn and rating drift

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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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🔌 Automating The Knot Wedding Vendor Scraper

Run on demand from your own code, or set it on a schedule.

• Node.js client for JavaScript and TypeScript callers
• Python client for data-science workflows and notebooks
• REST API docs for any language with HTTP

Use Apify Schedules to refresh your vendor list weekly, pull a city snapshot every Monday morning, or rerun award-winner queries each year when the new Best of Weddings list lands. Combine with Webhooks to drop new records into Sheets, a database, or your CRM.

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

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🔌 Integrate with any app

• Zapier - hundreds of no-code triggers and actions
• Make - visual automation builder
• n8n - self-hosted workflow automation
• Slack - drop new vendor records into a planning channel
• Google Sheets - auto-append vendor lists to a spreadsheet
• Airbyte - pipe results into your data warehouse

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💡 Pro Tip: browse the complete ParseForge collection for more local-business, marketplace, and review scrapers.

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Disclaimer. This Actor reads The Knot's public marketplace listing pages. It does not bypass authentication, paywalls, or technical protection measures. You are responsible for using the resulting data in compliance with The Knot's Terms of Service and your local laws (anti-spam, data-protection, consumer-protection). ParseForge does not affiliate with, endorse, or claim any partnership with The Knot or its parent company XO Group.