# Texas Child Care Center Leads - Daycare Phone & Director (`pink_comic/texas-child-care-center-leads`) Actor

Search 15k Texas HHSC-regulated child care operations (daycare centers, licensed and registered homes, residential operations), updated daily: name, address, phone, director, capacity, ages, hours, subsidy flag, issuance date and inspection/deficiency counts.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/pink_comic/texas-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 operation 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

## Texas Child Care Center Leads - Daycare Phone & Director

Search every **Texas HHSC-regulated child care operation** from the official Child Care Licensing file on data.texas.gov (about 15,000 operations, refreshed daily): licensed daycare centers, licensed and registered child-care homes, listed family homes, general residential operations and child placing agencies.

Each result includes:

- operation name, type, HHSC operation number and **phone**
- **director / administrator name**
- address, city, ZIP, county and mailing address
- permit type and **issuance date**
- **total capacity**, ages served, programs, hours and days of operation
- accepts child care subsidies flag, temporarily closed flag
- corrective/adverse action flags, deficiency counts and total inspections

Results are newest permit first. No API key, no CAPTCHA. Pricing: **$0.002 per operation + $0.0001 start**.

```json
{ "operationTypes": ["Licensed Center"], "counties": ["HARRIS"], "maxResults": 500 }
```

```json
{ "issuedAfter": "2026-07-01", "cities": ["AUSTIN"] }
```

### Use cases

Lead lists for childcare software, curriculum, food service, insurance, cleaning and staffing vendors; new daycare openings; compliance and deficiency research; market sizing by county or ZIP.

### Limits

Point-in-time public data from Texas HHSC. No email. Names are matched as substrings.

### Related

- [New York Child Care Provider Leads](https://apify.com/pink_comic/new-york-child-care-provider-leads)
- [Texas New Business Leads - Sales Tax Permits](https://apify.com/pink_comic/texas-new-business-leads-sales-tax-permits)
- [TDLR Texas Professional License Search](https://apify.com/pink_comic/tdlr-texas-professional-license-search)

# Actor input Schema

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

Quick single daycare or director name search (contains match). Leave blank for the most recently issued permits.

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

Operation or director names, contains match, case-insensitive.

## `issuedAfter` (type: `string`):

Optional YYYY-MM-DD. Use a recent date to get newly opened daycares.

## `operationTypes` (type: `array`):

Contains match, e.g. 'Licensed Center', 'Registered Child-Care Home', 'Licensed Child-Care Home', 'Listed Family Home', 'General Residential', 'Child Placing'.

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

County, e.g. 'HARRIS', 'DALLAS', 'TRAVIS', 'BEXAR', 'TARRANT'.

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

City, e.g. 'HOUSTON', 'SAN ANTONIO', 'AUSTIN', 'DALLAS'.

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

ZIP code or prefix, e.g. '78701' or '770'.

## `acceptsSubsidies` (type: `array`):

'Y' or 'N' (accepts Texas Workforce Commission child care subsidies).

## `operationNumbers` (type: `array`):

Exact HHSC operation numbers for lookup.

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

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

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "query": "",
  "names": [],
  "issuedAfter": "",
  "operationTypes": [],
  "counties": [],
  "cities": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "acceptsSubsidies": [],
  "operationNumbers": [],
  "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": [],
    "issuedAfter": "",
    "operationTypes": [],
    "counties": [],
    "cities": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "acceptsSubsidies": [],
    "operationNumbers": [],
    "maxResults": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("pink_comic/texas-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": [],
    "issuedAfter": "",
    "operationTypes": [],
    "counties": [],
    "cities": [],
    "zipCodes": [],
    "acceptsSubsidies": [],
    "operationNumbers": [],
    "maxResults": 10,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("pink_comic/texas-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": [],
  "issuedAfter": "",
  "operationTypes": [],
  "counties": [],
  "cities": [],
  "zipCodes": [],
  "acceptsSubsidies": [],
  "operationNumbers": [],
  "maxResults": 10
}' |
apify call pink_comic/texas-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/texas-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/1LYCmI3H7sL35Ut2I/builds/7ZmvhXZ00F8gdDoyt/openapi.json