# Psychology Today Therapist Scraper — Phone, License, Specialty (`scrapersdelight/psychologytoday-therapist-scraper`) Actor

Scrape licensed therapists from Psychology Today: name, phone, credentials, license number, expiry and state, specialties, city, state and zip, education, photo and profile URL. Public profiles, schema.org JSON-LD, no login. Export CSV/JSON.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapersdelight/psychologytoday-therapist-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapers Delight](https://apify.com/scrapersdelight) (community)
- **Categories:** Automation, Lead generation, Agents
- **Stats:** 1 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$6.00 / 1,000 per therapist returneds

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/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

Actors are a software tools running on the Apify platform, for all kinds of web data extraction and automation use cases.
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.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## 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.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

In Python projects, use official [Python client library](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python.md):

```bash
pip install apify-client
```

In shell scripts, use [Apify CLI](https://docs.apify.com/cli/docs.md):

````bash
# MacOS / Linux
curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash
# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

In AI frameworks, you might use the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp.md).

If your project is in a different language, use the [REST API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2.md).

For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt).


# README

## 🧠 Psychology Today Therapist Scraper — Phone, License & Specialty

**Build provider-recruiting and license-verification lists from Psychology Today.** Scrape licensed mental-health providers into a clean dataset — **name, phone, credentials, license number + expiry + state, specialties, city, state, ZIP, education, photo and profile URL** — straight from public profiles. No login, no copy-paste.

> 🕒 Last updated: 2026-07-07 · 📇 17 fields per provider · 📞 Phone exposed · 🪪 License number, expiry & state · 🚫 No login

Turn a Psychology Today city listing or search into structured provider leads in minutes. Every profile is parsed from its public schema.org data, so you get a flat JSON record per clinician — ready to export to CSV, JSON, Excel, or Google Sheets, or pull straight into your app via API.

---

### ✅ What you get

Every record is one licensed provider:

- 📞 **`phone`** — the direct office phone, published on the public profile.
- 🪪 **`licenseNumber` + `licenseExpires` + `licenseState`** — the exact inputs a credentialing / license-verification workflow needs.
- 🧩 **`specialties`** — array of what they treat (Anxiety, Depression, Eating Disorders, Addiction, …).
- 🧑‍⚕️ **`name`**, **`credentials`** (LMSW, LCSW, PhD…), **`jobTitle`** (e.g. Clinical Social Work/Therapist).
- 📍 **`city`**, **`state`**, **`zip`** — practice location.
- 🎓 **`education`** — where they trained.
- 🖼️ **`photoUrl`**, 🔗 **`websiteLink`** (Psychology Today's outbound link), **`profileUrl`**, **`profileId`**.

<details><summary>🧠 Sample record</summary>

```json
{
  "name": "Sophie Talmadge Silleck",
  "credentials": "LMSW, LSW",
  "jobTitle": "Clinical Social Work/Therapist",
  "phone": "(646) 808-3795",
  "licenseNumber": "123652",
  "licenseExpires": "2027-05-01",
  "licenseState": "New York",
  "specialties": ["Addiction", "Anxiety", "Depression"],
  "city": "New York", "state": "New York", "zip": "10003",
  "education": "New York University",
  "websiteLink": "https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/profile/1473158/website",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/sophie-talmadge-silleck-new-york-ny/1473158",
  "profileId": "1473158"
}
````

</details>

***

### 👥 Who it's for

- 🩺 **Teletherapy & provider marketplaces** (recruiting licensed clinicians) — build targeted provider-recruiting lists by city and specialty.
- 🔐 **Credentialing / license-verification SaaS** — the `licenseNumber` + `licenseExpires` + `licenseState` fields drop straight into your verification pipeline.
- 🗂️ **EHR / practice-management** outbound to independent practices.

### 🚀 How to use it

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Paste one or more **listing / search URLs** (e.g. `https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ny/new-york`), or drop direct **profile URLs**.
3. *(Optional)* set a **specialty filter** (e.g. `Anxiety`) and a **max leads** cap.
4. Click **Start**, then export from the **Dataset** tab (JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets) or via API.

#### Example input

```json
{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ny/new-york" }],
  "specialtyFilter": "Anxiety",
  "maxItems": 200
}
```

### ⚙️ How it works

It reads **public** Psychology Today profile pages and parses the schema.org **JSON-LD** each page ships — the same structured data search engines read. Listing pages are enumerated 20 profiles at a time and paginated automatically. Requests run over an Apify **Residential** proxy with fresh-IP retries for reliable results at volume. No browser automation, no login, no API key.

### 📌 Honesty note

Phone, license (number, expiry, state), specialties and address come **straight from each public profile**. **Email is not published by Psychology Today** — the site uses a contact form, so there is **no email field**. The `websiteLink` field is Psychology Today's outbound redirect link, not the resolved external domain.

### ⚖️ Notes & fair use

This actor reads publicly available directory listings. You are responsible for complying with Psychology Today's Terms of Service and with applicable privacy law (GDPR / CCPA) in your lawful use of provider contact data.

**Keywords:** therapist leads, psychology today scraper, mental health provider data, license verification, teletherapy recruiting.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Psychology Today therapist listing or search URLs, e.g. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ny/new-york

## `profileUrls` (type: `array`):

Scrape specific therapist profiles directly.

## `specialtyFilter` (type: `string`):

Keep only providers whose specialties include this term (e.g. 'Anxiety', 'Eating Disorders').

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

0 = all found.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings. Psychology Today is a people directory scraped at volume, so RESIDENTIAL is the default for clean IP reputation.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ny/new-york"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `records` (type: `string`):

The dataset of scraped Psychology Today therapist profiles (one item per provider).

# 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ny/new-york"
        }
    ],
    "maxItems": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapersdelight/psychologytoday-therapist-scraper").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 = {
    "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ny/new-york" }],
    "maxItems": 10,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapersdelight/psychologytoday-therapist-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ny/new-york"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 10,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call scrapersdelight/psychologytoday-therapist-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=scrapersdelight/psychologytoday-therapist-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
{
    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Psychology Today Therapist Scraper — Phone, License, Specialty",
        "description": "Scrape licensed therapists from Psychology Today: name, phone, credentials, license number, expiry and state, specialties, city, state and zip, education, photo and profile URL. Public profiles, schema.org JSON-LD, no login. Export CSV/JSON.",
        "version": "0.1",
        "x-build-id": "5IPKJaCohu8OjuFb4"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
        "/acts/scrapersdelight~psychologytoday-therapist-scraper/run-sync-get-dataset-items": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-scrapersdelight-psychologytoday-therapist-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/scrapersdelight~psychologytoday-therapist-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-scrapersdelight-psychologytoday-therapist-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/scrapersdelight~psychologytoday-therapist-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-scrapersdelight-psychologytoday-therapist-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "startUrls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "startUrls": {
                        "title": "Listing / search URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Psychology Today therapist listing or search URLs, e.g. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/therapists/ny/new-york",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "required": [
                                "url"
                            ],
                            "properties": {
                                "url": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "title": "URL of a web page",
                                    "format": "uri"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "profileUrls": {
                        "title": "Direct profile URLs (optional)",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Scrape specific therapist profiles directly.",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "required": [
                                "url"
                            ],
                            "properties": {
                                "url": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "title": "URL of a web page",
                                    "format": "uri"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "specialtyFilter": {
                        "title": "Specialty contains (optional)",
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Keep only providers whose specialties include this term (e.g. 'Anxiety', 'Eating Disorders')."
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max leads",
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "0 = all found.",
                        "default": 0
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Proxy settings. Psychology Today is a people directory scraped at volume, so RESIDENTIAL is the default for clean IP reputation.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true,
                            "apifyProxyGroups": [
                                "RESIDENTIAL"
                            ]
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```