# Nepal Trekking Agency License Check (`rounded_narcissus/nepal-trekking-license-check`) Actor

Checks whether a Nepal trekking/travel agency is a current TAAN (Trekking Agencies' Association of Nepal) General Member, using TAAN's public member directory, to help travelers and booking platforms spot unlicensed or misrepresented agencies before paying a deposit.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/rounded_narcissus/nepal-trekking-license-check.md
- **Developed by:** [Pradip Malla](https://apify.com/rounded_narcissus) (community)
- **Categories:** Travel, Business
- **Security:** Limited permissions
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$20.00 / 1,000 agency checks

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?

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# README

## Nepal Trekking Agency License Check

Checks whether a Nepal trekking/travel agency is a current **TAAN (Trekking Agencies' Association of
Nepal) General Member**, using TAAN's own public member directory (https://www.taan.org.np/members).
Built for travelers, booking platforms and trek-planning tools that want a quick, structured signal
before paying a deposit to an unfamiliar agency — trekking-agency registration scams are a known
problem for visitors to Nepal, and no existing Apify actor covers this niche (checked 2026-09-28).

Prefer to look one agency up by hand? The same directory is free to search at
https://nepaltrekcheck.com/agencies/, with a website check for each agency and a trek quote checker.

### Input

- `agencyName` (string) — a single agency name to check, OR
- `agencyNames` (array of strings) — check several names in one run.
- `maxMatches` (integer, default 5) — how many directory matches to return per queried name; the closest
  match is enriched with full registry details.

### Output (one dataset item per queried name)

- `verified` — `true` if a matching TAAN General Member was found.
- `best` — for a match: TAAN member ID, registered organization name, registration number, address,
  country, website, and the TAAN profile URL (no email or phone numbers, by design — use the TAAN
  profile to contact an agency).
- `otherMatches` — any additional name matches found, for disambiguation.
- `note` — plain-English caveat (see Limits below).
- `source`, `checkedAt` — provenance.

### Honest limits

- Covers TAAN's **General Members** category only (~2,334 agencies) — not Associate or Regional
  Association members, and not the Department of Tourism's own trekking-license register (no public
  online copy of that register was found as of 2026-09-28).
- TAAN membership is a strong signal of a genuine, established agency, but membership and an active
  Dept. of Tourism trekking license are two different records — this tool checks the former only.
- Matching is on the organization name as TAAN lists it; spelling variants may not match.
- A "not found" result does not prove an agency is unlicensed — verify directly with TAAN or the Dept.
  of Tourism before relying on this for anything high-stakes.

### Price

Pay-per-result on the Apify Store — priced inside Apify's normal per-event range for a lookup/
verification actor (see the store listing for the current price).

### Data & compliance

Reads only TAAN's public member directory (robots.txt allows all crawlers as of 2026-09-28, checked
before building this). No login, no personal-individual data — only organization-level registration
details already published by TAAN for its member businesses. One search request plus (for the closest
match) one detail-page request per queried name, spaced out — no bulk crawling of the full directory.

# Actor input Schema

## `agencyName` (type: `string`):

The trekking/travel agency name to check against TAAN's public member directory.

## `agencyNames` (type: `array`):

Check several agency names in one run instead of a single agencyName.

## `maxMatches` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of TAAN directory matches to return per queried name (the closest match is enriched with full details).

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "agencyNames": [
    "Amazing Himalaya Trekking"
  ],
  "maxMatches": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

One row per agency checked: whether it is a current TAAN General Member, the matched directory entry and how the match was made.

# 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 = {
    "agencyNames": [
        "Amazing Himalaya Trekking"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("rounded_narcissus/nepal-trekking-license-check").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 = { "agencyNames": ["Amazing Himalaya Trekking"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("rounded_narcissus/nepal-trekking-license-check").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 '{
  "agencyNames": [
    "Amazing Himalaya Trekking"
  ]
}' |
apify call rounded_narcissus/nepal-trekking-license-check --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,rounded_narcissus/nepal-trekking-license-check"
        }
    }
}
```

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/3MZjF4A6abp1V6Xj5/builds/z9pzvD3TuwsRm2buX/openapi.json