Church Finder Scraper

Pull US church listings from Church Finder at scale — names, split addresses, phone numbers, church websites, service times, pastors, membership size, ministries, statements of belief, ratings, and visitor reviews. Search any city or whole state, filter to any of 13 denominations, and get one clean row per church with as many as 47 fields. Built for faith-based marketers, denominational researchers, church-supply and AV vendors, and nonprofit outreach teams who need a structured national church dataset without opening thousands of profile pages by hand.

Why This Scraper?

• As many as 47 fields per church — the closest alternative on the store stops at 14. Everything that makes a church profile worth having (pastor, website, membership band, ministries, doctrine, ratings) is in every row.
• 13 denomination filters applied at the source — Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian, Episcopal / Anglican, Orthodox, Pentecostal, Spirit-Filled / Charismatic, Evangelical, Reformed, Christian, and Non-Denominational. The directory itself does the filtering, so you are never charged for churches you filtered out.
• Nationwide coverage — 56 state and territory directories — all 50 states plus DC, Puerto Rico, Guam, the US Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. Type a bare state and it works through every city in it: Texas alone lists 1,093 city directories.
• Split, mailing-ready addresses — street, city, state, zipCode, and country as separate fields, plus a printed one-line fullAddress. No parsing a single address blob yourself, and ZIP codes arrive on every enriched row.
• Congregation profile, not just contact data — membership band ("Over 5000 Members"), average attendee age, dress style, primary language, and service and sermon style, alongside the weekly serviceTimes string exactly as the church wrote it.
• Doctrinal depth no other church dataset carries — statement-of-belief sentences, primary Bible version, baptism practice, communion frequency, eternal-security position, charismatic-gifts position, regularly practiced elements, and the named doctrinal statements each church endorses.
• Ministries and public services as clean arrays — kids, youth, college, men's and women's ministries on one side; counseling, weddings, funerals, and summer camps on the other, ready to filter on.
• Opt-in visitor reviews with full text — author name, their relationship to the church, star rating, title, and body. Roughly 2% of churches have any review at all, so it stays off by default and never inflates a run.
• Exact result caps — ask for 50 churches and you are billed for exactly 50, never a rounded-up block of 100. Set maxResults to 0 and a single run collects up to 50,000 churches.

Use Cases

Faith-Based Marketing & Vendor Sales

• Build target lists of churches by denomination and metro area
• Prioritize outreach by membership band — reach only congregations above a size threshold
• Reach AV, seating, curriculum, and software buyers with verified phone and website contacts
• Segment by service style (contemporary vs. traditional) to match your product fit

Denominational & Religious Research

• Map denominational density city by city across all 50 states
• Compare doctrinal positions — baptism, communion frequency, eternal security — at scale
• Track which Bible versions dominate which regions
• Study primary service language to measure multilingual ministry coverage

Nonprofit & Community Outreach

• Find congregations running counseling, food, or youth programs in your service area
• Identify churches with community-project involvement for partnership campaigns
• Build volunteer-recruitment lists by ministry type
• Locate churches offering summer camps or family services near a target ZIP

Directory, App & Dataset Building

• Power a church-finder app with names, coordinates, service times, and logos
• Enrich an existing congregation CRM with websites, social links, and pastor names
• Feed denominational dashboards with fresh city-level counts
• Keep a national church database current with scheduled refreshes

Reputation & Review Analysis

• Collect visitor review text and star ratings for the churches that have them
• Compare average ratings across denominations in a metro
• Monitor which congregations have claimed and actively manage their listing
• Track review growth over time for a set of watched churches

Getting Started

One City

The simplest possible run — a city, a limit, full detail on by default:

{
    "locations": ["Austin, TX"],
    "maxResults": 50
}

Filter to Specific Denominations

{
    "locations": ["Houston, TX", "San Antonio, Texas"],
    "denominations": ["baptist", "methodist"],
    "maxResults": 500
}

Fast Roster Without Profile Detail

Turn detail off when you only need a name-and-address list:

{
    "locations": ["Texas"],
    "includeChurchDetails": false,
    "maxResults": 5000
}

Full Depth, Including Reviews

{
    "locations": ["Nashville, TN"],
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.churchfinder.com/churches/tx/austin/hill-country-bible-church"
    ],
    "denominations": ["non-denominational", "evangelical"],
    "includeChurchDetails": true,
    "includeReviews": true,
    "maxResults": 1000
}

Input Reference

Search

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
locations	array of strings	["Austin, TX"]	Cities or states to search. Type them the way you'd say them — 'Austin, TX' or 'San Antonio, Texas'. Enter just a state ('Texas' or 'TX') to work through every city in that state, in the directory's own order (roughly alphabetical), until your result limit is reached. To target the big metros, name those cities yourself.
startUrls	array of strings	[]	Paste Church Finder web addresses directly. Works with state pages, city listings, denomination listings and individual church pages. Review pages on their own aren't supported — paste the church's profile address instead. Leave empty if you're using Locations.

You can use both together in one run.

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
denominations	array of strings	[] (all)	Only return churches of these denominations. Leave empty to include every denomination. Choosing several searches each one in turn. This applies to city and state searches; an individual church address you paste under Church Finder URLs is always returned.

Accepted denomination values:

Value	Shown as
baptist	Baptist
catholic	Catholic
methodist	Methodist
lutheran	Lutheran
presbyterian	Presbyterian
episcopal	Episcopal / Anglican
orthodox	Orthodox
pentecostal	Pentecostal
spirit-filled	Spirit-Filled / Charismatic
evangelical	Evangelical
reformed	Reformed
christian	Christian
non-denominational	Non-Denominational

What to Collect

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includeChurchDetails	boolean	true	Visit each church's profile page to collect ZIP code, phone number, website, service times, pastor, ministries, beliefs and ratings. Turn this off for a much faster run that returns at least church name, street, city, state, denomination and profile link — around 30 other fields come from the profile page. If a profile can't be opened, the church is still returned with those basic details. Churches are enriched in batches of up to 100, and each batch has a time budget of a few minutes; if Church Finder answers too slowly, the rest of that batch is returned with the basic details and the run finishes with a partial-results message telling you how many.
includeReviews	boolean	false	Also collect visitor reviews for churches that have them. Only about 2% of churches have any review at all, so this rarely slows your run, and every review a church has is returned at once. Reviews come from the church's profile page, so switching this on also switches on 'Include full church profiles'.

Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	50	Maximum number of churches to return across all your searches. This is an exact limit — you're never charged for more than this. Set to 0 for no limit, which collects up to 50,000 churches per run.

Output

One flat row per church. Empty fields are omitted, so sparse listings stay compact.

{
    "churchName": "Hill Country Bible Church",
    "denomination": "Non-Denominational Christian Churches",
    "denominationCategory": "Non-Denominational",
    "pastorName": "Tim Hawks",
    "memberCount": "Over 5000 Members",
    "isClaimed": true,
    "street": "12124 RR 620 N",
    "city": "Austin",
    "state": "TX",
    "zipCode": "78750",
    "country": "United States",
    "fullAddress": "12124 RR 620 N, Austin, TX 78750, United States",
    "latitude": 30.4534,
    "longitude": -97.8321,
    "phone": "(512) 331-5050",
    "website": "https://www.hcbc.com",
    "socialLinks": ["https://www.facebook.com/hillcountrybible"],
    "logoUrl": "https://www.churchfinder.com/sites/default/files/hcbc-logo.png",
    "photoUrls": ["https://www.churchfinder.com/sites/default/files/hcbc-1.jpg"],
    "photoCaptions": ["Sunday morning worship"],
    "description": "Hill Country Bible Church is a multi-site church in northwest Austin...",
    "mission": "To lead people to become fully devoted followers of Christ.",
    "serviceTimes": "Sunday 9:00 AM, 10:45 AM, 5:00 PM",
    "serviceStyle": "Contemporary Teaching",
    "dressStyle": "Casual",
    "averageAge": "30 to 50",
    "primaryLanguage": "English",
    "communityProjects": "Very Involved",
    "ministries": ["Children's Ministry", "Youth Ministry", "College Ministry", "Women's Ministry"],
    "groupsAndServices": ["Counseling", "Weddings", "Funerals", "Summer Camp"],
    "beliefs": ["We believe the Bible is the inspired Word of God.", "We believe in one God, eternally existing in three persons."],
    "bibleVersion": "New International Version",
    "baptism": "Believers Baptism by Immersion",
    "communionFrequency": "Monthly",
    "eternalSecurity": "Once Saved Always Saved",
    "charismaticGifts": "Not Practiced",
    "regularPractices": ["Altar Call or Invitation", "Small Groups"],
    "doctrinalStatements": ["Apostles Creed", "Nicene Creed"],
    "rating": 4.8,
    "reviewCount": 12,
    "reviewsUrl": "https://www.churchfinder.com/reviews/hill-country-bible-church/394700",
    "reviews": [
        {
            "author": "Sarah Mitchell",
            "memberType": "Member",
            "title": "A welcoming church family",
            "rating": 5.0,
            "text": "We have attended for six years and the children's ministry is outstanding.",
            "url": "https://www.churchfinder.com/reviews/hill-country-bible-church/394700",
            "avatarUrl": "https://www.churchfinder.com/sites/default/files/avatar-sm.jpg"
        }
    ],
    "profileManager": "Hill Country Bible Church",
    "nodeId": "394700",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.churchfinder.com/churches/tx/austin/hill-country-bible-church",
    "searchLocation": "Austin, TX",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-07-25T14:02:11.480291+00:00"
}

Identity & Congregation

Field	Type	Description
churchName	string	Church name
denomination	string	Specific denomination or affiliation, e.g. "Evangelical Lutheran in America"
denominationCategory	string	Broad category, e.g. "Baptist", "Non-Denominational"
pastorName	string	Senior or lead pastor, with the title stripped
memberCount	string	Membership band as published, e.g. "Over 5000 Members"
averageAge	string	Average age of attendees
primaryLanguage	string	Primary service language
isClaimed	boolean	Whether the church manages its own listing
profileManager	string	Name of the listing manager, when published

Location

Field	Type	Description
street	string	Street address
city	string	City
state	string	Two-letter state code
zipCode	string	ZIP code (profile detail only)
country	string	Always "United States"
fullAddress	string	Single-line address as printed on the profile
latitude	number	Latitude, when the church has published a map location
longitude	number	Longitude, when the church has published a map location

Contact & Web

Field	Type	Description
phone	string	Church phone number
website	string	The church's own website
socialLinks	array of strings	Facebook and other social profile links
logoUrl	string	Church logo image (blank when the church uses the directory placeholder)
photoUrls	array of strings	Photo gallery image links
photoCaptions	array of strings	Captions matching the photo gallery
profileUrl	string	Church Finder profile address

Services & Style

Field	Type	Description
serviceTimes	string	Weekly service schedule exactly as written
serviceStyle	string	Service and sermon style, e.g. "Contemporary Teaching"
dressStyle	string	Typical dress, e.g. "Casual"
description	string	The "About this Church" text
mission	string	Mission statement
communityProjects	string	Community-project involvement level

Ministries & Beliefs

Field	Type	Description
ministries	array of strings	Ministry groups — children's, youth, college, men's, women's
groupsAndServices	array of strings	Public services — counseling, weddings, funerals, summer camp
beliefs	array of strings	Statement-of-belief sentences
bibleVersion	string	Primary Bible version used
baptism	string	Baptism practice
communionFrequency	string	How often communion is served
eternalSecurity	string	Eternal-security position
charismaticGifts	string	Healing and charismatic-gifts position
regularPractices	array of strings	Regularly practiced elements, e.g. "Altar Call or Invitation"
doctrinalStatements	array of strings	Named doctrinal statements the church endorses

Ratings, Reviews & Run Metadata

Field	Type	Description
rating	number	Average visitor rating out of 5
reviewCount	integer	Number of visitor reviews on record
reviewsUrl	string	Address of the church's reviews page
reviews	array of objects	Full reviews — only when Include visitor reviews is on
nodeId	string	Church Finder's own listing identifier
searchLocation	string	The location or address this row came from
scrapedAt	string	ISO 8601 timestamp of collection

Each entry inside reviews carries author, memberType (the reviewer's relationship to the church), title, rating, text, url, and avatarUrl.

The example above shows a fully filled-in listing. Map coordinates and star ratings appear only for the minority of churches that publish them, and every empty field is left out of the row.

Tips for Best Results

• Start with 10–50 results to confirm the fields match what you need, then raise maxResults. The cap is exact, so a small test run costs exactly what it says.
• A bare state name enumerates every city in it — "Texas" walks all 1,093 Texas city directories in the directory's own order, which runs roughly alphabetically rather than largest city first. Pair it with a generous maxResults for a statewide sweep; to target the big metros, name them yourself: "Houston, TX", "Dallas, TX", "San Antonio, TX".
• Always include the state in a city entry — "Austin, TX" and "San Antonio, Texas" both resolve, but "austin tx" without the comma does not, and dozens of city names repeat across states.
• Punctuated city names work as typed — "St. Louis, MO" and "Coeur d'Alene, ID" both resolve correctly; you never need to guess how the directory spells them.
• Denomination filtering happens per city, so combining a whole state with two denominations runs one focused pass per city per denomination — precise, but plan maxResults accordingly.
• Leave visitor reviews off unless you need the text. Only about 2% of churches have a single review, so for most target lists the star rating and reviewCount already tell you everything.
• Turn off full church profiles for a fast roster. You keep at least name, street, city, state, denomination, and the profile link — ideal for building a coverage map first and enriching only the cities that matter.
• Mix Locations and Church Finder URLs in one run — sweep two metros while also pulling a hand-picked list of flagship congregations you already know.

Pricing

From $3.50 per 1,000 results — roughly 20% below the closest alternative on the store, with more than three times the fields per church. Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less; the table below shows total cost at each discount tier.

Results	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.42	$0.40	$0.37	$0.35
1,000	$4.20	$3.95	$3.70	$3.50
10,000	$42.00	$39.50	$37.00	$35.00
100,000	$420.00	$395.00	$370.00	$350.00

A "result" is one church row in the output dataset. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor collects publicly listed church directory information for legitimate research, outreach, and directory-building purposes. You are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Church Finder's Terms of Service. Church contact details are published so congregations can be reached — do not use them for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose, and respect any opt-out request you receive. Visitor reviews are user-written content: handle them, and any personal details they contain, in line with applicable data-protection rules.