# New York Child Care Provider Leads - Daycares with Phone (`pink_comic/new-york-child-care-provider-leads`) Actor

Find 16,800 New York regulated child care programs from the Office of Children and Family Services (updated daily): day care centers, group family and family day care, school-age programs. Get name, provider, phone, address, capacity and license dates.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pink_comic/new-york-child-care-provider-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 program results

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

## New York Child Care Provider Leads - Daycares with Phone

Get **New York daycares and child care programs** from the Office of Children and Family Services' official **Child Care Regulated Programs** file on data.ny.gov (about 16,800 programs, refreshed daily): **day care centers, group family day care, family day care, school-age child care** and small day care centers. Almost every record has a **phone number**.

Each result includes:

- program name, **provider name** and **phone**
- program type and status (license, registration, pending revocation, suspended)
- **license issue and expiration dates**, opened date
- address, city, ZIP, county and school district
- **capacity** (total, infants, toddlers, preschool, school age) and the OCFS profile link

Results are newest license first and active only by default. No API key, no CAPTCHA. Pricing: **$0.002 per program + $0.0001 start**.

```json
{ "programTypes": ["DCC"], "counties": ["Nassau", "Erie"], "maxResults": 300 }
```

```json
{ "licensedAfter": "2026-09-01" }
```

### Use cases

Leads for child care software, curriculum, toys and furniture, food programs, insurance, payroll and staffing; directories and parent search tools; compliance checks on a provider.

### Limits

Point-in-time public data from OCFS. It has no email, and the issue date also changes on renewal. Day care centers inside New York City are permitted by the NYC Health Department and are not in this file (NYC family, group family and school-age programs are). Names are matched as substrings.

### Related

- [New York Business Leads](https://apify.com/pink_comic/new-york-business-leads)
- [NYC Licensed Business Search](https://apify.com/pink_comic/nyc-licensed-business-search)
- [NPPES NPI Registry](https://apify.com/pink_comic/nppes-npi-registry)

# Actor input Schema

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

Quick single program or provider name search (contains match). Leave blank for the newest licenses.

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

Program or provider names, contains match, case-insensitive.

## `licensedAfter` (type: `string`):

Optional YYYY-MM-DD. Use a recent date for newly licensed or renewed programs.

## `programTypes` (type: `array`):

'DCC' day care center, 'GFDC' group family day care, 'FDC' family day care, 'SACC' school-age child care, 'SDCC' small day care center.

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

County (NYC uses borough names), e.g. 'Brooklyn', 'Queens', 'Manhattan', 'Nassau', 'Monroe', 'Erie'.

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

City, e.g. 'Brooklyn', 'Rochester'.

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

ZIP code or prefix, e.g. '11221' or '146'.

## `schoolDistricts` (type: `array`):

Contains match on the school district name.

## `statuses` (type: `array`):

Only used when Active Only is off, e.g. 'Pending Revocation', 'Suspended'.

## `activeOnly` (type: `boolean`):

Return only programs with status License or Registration.

## `facilityIds` (type: `array`):

Exact OCFS facility IDs.

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

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

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "",
  "names": [],
  "licensedAfter": "",
  "programTypes": [],
  "counties": [],
  "cities": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "schoolDistricts": [],
  "statuses": [],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "facilityIds": [],
  "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": [],
    "licensedAfter": "",
    "programTypes": [],
    "counties": [],
    "cities": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "schoolDistricts": [],
    "statuses": [],
    "activeOnly": true,
    "facilityIds": [],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pink_comic/new-york-child-care-provider-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": [],
    "licensedAfter": "",
    "programTypes": [],
    "counties": [],
    "cities": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "schoolDistricts": [],
    "statuses": [],
    "activeOnly": True,
    "facilityIds": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pink_comic/new-york-child-care-provider-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": [],
  "licensedAfter": "",
  "programTypes": [],
  "counties": [],
  "cities": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "schoolDistricts": [],
  "statuses": [],
  "activeOnly": true,
  "facilityIds": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call pink_comic/new-york-child-care-provider-leads --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,pink_comic/new-york-child-care-provider-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/rwgTlWwuQMTud3nNQ/builds/QUgAo3gH2KJglmEzS/openapi.json