# Colorado Child Care Center Leads - Capacity & Quality Rating (`pink_comic/colorado-child-care-center-leads`) Actor

Search 4.5k Colorado licensed child care facilities: provider name, service type (centers, preschools, family homes, school-age, camps), address, county, governing body, school district, Colorado Shines quality rating, licensed capacity by age group and CCCAP status.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pink_comic/colorado-child-care-center-leads.md
- **Developed by:** [Ava Torres](https://apify.com/pink_comic) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Business, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.00 / 1,000 child care providers

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

An Actor is a serverless cloud program that runs on the Apify platform. It has two run modes.
In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

## How to integrate an Actor?

If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects.
You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.

Do not guess an integration path. Every one of them is in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md: the Apify MCP server, Agent Skills with the Apify CLI, the JavaScript and Python clients, the REST API, and the account-free path for an agent with no human to sign in. It also carries the rule on stating cost before the first paid run.

For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

Each client library has reference documentation the quickstart does not restate: [JavaScript/TypeScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs.md) (`npm install apify-client`) and [Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs.md) (`pip install apify-client`).

# README

## Colorado Child Care Center Leads - Capacity & Quality Rating

Search the **Colorado Licensed Child Care Facilities Report** on data.colorado.gov (about 4,500 licensed centers, preschools, family child care homes, school-age programs and camps, 92k page views).

Each result includes:

- provider name, provider ID and **service type**
- **governing body** (the operator or owner organization)
- street address, city, ZIP, county and school district
- **Colorado Shines quality rating** (1 to 5) with award and expiration dates
- **licensed capacity** in total and by infant, toddler, preschool and school-age
- CCCAP fiscal agreement and authorization status, early childhood council

Newest providers first. No API key, no CAPTCHA. Pricing: **$0.002 per provider + $0.0001 start**.

```json
{ "serviceTypes": ["Child Care Center"], "counties": ["Denver"], "maxResults": 500 }
```

```json
{ "qualityRatings": ["4", "5"], "cities": ["Colorado Springs"] }
```

### Use cases

Lead lists for childcare management software, curriculum, food service, furniture, insurance, staffing and cleaning vendors; market sizing by county and capacity.

### Limits

No phone or email in the source, and family child care homes often have the address withheld (shown as NA). Monthly report from the state. Names are matched as substrings.

### Related

- [Texas Child Care Center Leads](https://apify.com/pink_comic/texas-child-care-center-leads)
- [Washington Child Care Center Leads](https://apify.com/pink_comic/washington-child-care-center-leads)

# Actor input Schema

## `query` (type: `string`):

Quick single provider or governing body name search (contains match). Leave blank for the most recently added providers.

## `names` (type: `array`):

Provider or governing body names, contains match, case-insensitive.

## `serviceTypes` (type: `array`):

Contains match, e.g. 'Child Care Center', 'Preschool Program', 'School-Age', 'Family Child Care Home', 'Resident Camp'.

## `counties` (type: `array`):

County, e.g. 'Denver', 'El Paso', 'Arapahoe', 'Jefferson', 'Boulder'.

## `cities` (type: `array`):

City, e.g. 'Denver', 'Colorado Springs', 'Aurora'.

## `zipCodes` (type: `array`):

Exact 5-digit ZIP codes, e.g. '80303'.

## `qualityRatings` (type: `array`):

Colorado Shines level '1' to '5', or 'NA'.

## `providerIds` (type: `array`):

Exact provider IDs for lookup.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum total paid dataset items, split across search terms. The default returns 10 providers (about $0.0201 including the start event).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "",
  "names": [],
  "serviceTypes": [],
  "counties": [],
  "cities": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "qualityRatings": [],
  "providerIds": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

Dataset items.

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "query": "",
    "names": [],
    "serviceTypes": [],
    "counties": [],
    "cities": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "qualityRatings": [],
    "providerIds": [],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pink_comic/colorado-child-care-center-leads").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "query": "",
    "names": [],
    "serviceTypes": [],
    "counties": [],
    "cities": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "qualityRatings": [],
    "providerIds": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pink_comic/colorado-child-care-center-leads").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "query": "",
  "names": [],
  "serviceTypes": [],
  "counties": [],
  "cities": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "qualityRatings": [],
  "providerIds": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call pink_comic/colorado-child-care-center-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pink_comic/colorado-child-care-center-leads"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/xGxao6z9LEpGnJWbF/builds/WbflkW6kb4eJ7ast9/openapi.json