💍 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.

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

📋 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.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: category, city, imageUrl, name, phone, priceMax, priceMin, rating, reviewCount, startingPriceRange, state, url, vendorTier. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

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

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.

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