# Zocdoc Scraper — Doctor Leads, NPI & Insurance (`scrapersdelight/zocdoc-scraper`) Actor

Scrape Zocdoc doctor profiles by URL: name, NPI, specialty, ratings, review count, practice name, full address, phone, fax, accepted insurance, education and board certifications. No login.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapersdelight/zocdoc-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapers Delight](https://apify.com/scrapersdelight) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Agents
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.50 / 1,000 per doctor 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?

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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".

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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

## What is Zocdoc Scraper?

Zocdoc Scraper pulls **structured doctor-profile data** from Zocdoc in bulk — the physician's name,
**NPI**, specialty, ratings and review count, practice name, **full street address, phone and fax**,
accepted-insurance carriers, education and board certifications. **No login, no cookies, no account.**

Paste **individual doctor profile URLs** (or slugs) and run it. Full URLs, `/doctor/...` paths and
bare slugs all work, mixed together.

- **Real lead fields** — NPI, practice name, street address, phone and fax for outreach
- **Ratings and demand signals** — average rating, review count, "accepts new patients", telemedicine
- **Insurance networks** — the carriers each doctor is in-network with
- **Credentials** — specialty, education, board certifications, hospital affiliations, languages
- **Runs light** — plain HTTP on US residential proxies, no browser needed
- Export to Excel, CSV, JSON or HTML; schedule it or run it from the API

### What data can this scraper extract?

| | | |
|---|---|---|
| 🩺 Full name | 🆔 NPI | 🏷️ Specialty |
| ⭐ Average rating | 💬 Review count | ✅ Accepts new patients |
| 🏢 Practice name | 📍 Full address | ☎️ Phone + fax |
| 🛡️ Accepted insurance | 🎓 Education | 📜 Board certifications |
| 🏥 Hospital affiliations | 🗣️ Languages | 💻 Offers telemedicine |
| 🔗 Profile URL | 🖼️ Photo URL | 🌐 All practice locations |

### How do I use it?

#### ⬇️ Input

```json
{
  "doctorUrls": [
    "https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/jane-yoo-md-218940",
    "pinkas-lebovits-md-439"
  ]
}
```

#### ⬆️ Output (abridged)

```json
{
  "monolith_id": "218940",
  "full_name": "Dr. Jane Yoo, MD",
  "npi": "1447571518",
  "specialty": "Procedural Dermatology Specialist",
  "average_rating": 4.69,
  "review_count": 962,
  "accepts_new_patients": true,
  "practice_name": "Jane Yoo, MD, PLLC",
  "address1": "162 W 56th St",
  "city": "New York",
  "state": "NY",
  "zip_code": "10019",
  "phone": "(646) 844-0424",
  "insurance_carriers": ["UnitedHealthcare", "Highmark", "..."],
  "profile_url": "https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/jane-yoo-md-218940"
}
```

### Where do I get the doctor URLs?

This actor reads **individual `/doctor/` profile pages**. Zocdoc's search and city-listing pages
(e.g. `/dentists/new-york-...`) are behind a bot wall and are **not supported** as input. Get profile
URLs from Google (`site:zocdoc.com/doctor <specialty> <city>`), a sitemap, or your own CRM/list, then
paste them in. Each URL looks like `https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/<name-slug>-<id>`.

### Scope

- **Profiles, practice, ratings and insurance** — done properly and structurally.
- **Live appointment timeslots are not included.** They load from a separate signed availability
  endpoint (the profile page ships an empty slot grid), so that is a different job — this actor
  focuses on the durable lead + credential data.

### Common uses

- **Medical device & pharma sales** — target physicians by specialty, location and practice
- **Healthcare staffing & recruiting** — build shortlists with NPI and contact details
- **Insurance & RCM** — see which carriers each provider accepts
- **Market research** — compare ratings, review volume and new-patient availability across a set

### Frequently asked questions

**Do I need a Zocdoc account or cookies?** No.

**Do I need residential proxies?** Yes — measured at 20/20 profiles usable on US residential proxies
(datacenter and no-proxy were not reliable enough). The default is set for you.

**Does it return a doctor's open appointment times?** No, and that's deliberate — availability loads
from a separate signed endpoint and belongs in its own actor. This one does the profile properly.

**What if a URL doesn't exist?** It's logged and skipped; the run continues and returns everyone else.

**Is it legal?** It reads publicly visible doctor profile pages with no login. Provider data can
still be personal data, so you are responsible for complying with Zocdoc's Terms of Service and
applicable privacy law in how you store and use it.

### Your feedback

Hit a bug or want another field? Open an issue on the Issues tab.

# Actor input Schema

## `doctorUrls` (type: `array`):

One per line. Accepts a full profile URL 'https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/jane-yoo-md-218940', a '/doctor/...' path, or a bare slug 'jane-yoo-md-218940'. Search/listing pages (e.g. /dentists/new-york-...) are NOT supported — only individual /doctor/ profiles.

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

US residential proxy is required and is the measured default (20/20 profiles usable, avg ~2 attempts each). Datacenter or no proxy is not reliable enough for this site.

## `requestConcurrency` (type: `integer`):

How many profiles to fetch at once. Keep modest to respect the site.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Pacing per worker.

## `maxRetries` (type: `integer`):

Fresh proxy identity per attempt on a 403/429/503. Measured average is ~2 attempts to succeed; the default headroom is 5.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "doctorUrls": [
    "https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/jane-yoo-md-218940",
    "https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/pinkas-lebovits-md-439"
  ],
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "US"
  },
  "requestConcurrency": 4,
  "requestDelayMs": 500,
  "maxRetries": 5
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `doctors` (type: `string`):

Name, NPI, specialty, ratings, review count, practice name, full address, phone, fax, accepted insurance, education and board certifications.

# 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 = {
    "doctorUrls": [
        "https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/jane-yoo-md-218940",
        "https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/pinkas-lebovits-md-439"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapersdelight/zocdoc-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 = { "doctorUrls": [
        "https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/jane-yoo-md-218940",
        "https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/pinkas-lebovits-md-439",
    ] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapersdelight/zocdoc-scraper").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 '{
  "doctorUrls": [
    "https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/jane-yoo-md-218940",
    "https://www.zocdoc.com/doctor/pinkas-lebovits-md-439"
  ]
}' |
apify call scrapersdelight/zocdoc-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapersdelight/zocdoc-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

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/ibkjMfH5BZi7XJhN0/builds/AAkyF6542uVOMmjml/openapi.json