# Booksy Salons, Barbers & Beauty Business Scraper (`talcoe/booksy-salons`) Actor

Scrape Booksy salons, barbers, nail and lash studios by city and category with services, prices, reviews, hours and links, filtered by rating and review count, billed per result.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/talcoe/booksy-salons.md
- **Developed by:** [M Usama](https://apify.com/talcoe) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 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?

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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.

Apify vocabulary and the platform model are defined once, in the agent quickstart at https://apify.com/agents.md.

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### What does Booksy Salons, Barbers & Beauty Business Scraper do?

It returns salons, barbershops, nail studios, lash and brow bars, massage and skin care businesses listed on Booksy, for a city and category you choose. Each record has the business name, address, coordinates, rating, review count, service menu with prices and durations, opening hours, amenities, staff names, and the website and Instagram links when the business published them. Filters for rating and review count keep runs small, and pricing is per result.

### Data source

Booksy's public search and business pages (booksy.com), read through the structured JSON each page embeds, so the data is as fresh as the live site.

### Why use it?

- Build lead lists of beauty businesses by city and category, ranked by rating and review count.
- Compare service prices and durations across competitors in a market.
- Find businesses with a website or Instagram link for outreach, or without one for web and marketing offers.
- Replace manual browsing of Booksy search results.

### How to use it

1. Open the Actor and set the filters.
2. Click Start. Download results as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read them through the API.
3. Add a Schedule and an Integration (Slack, Google Sheets, webhook) to get new records automatically.

### Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `city` | One of 20 large US cities. Default New York City. |
| `locationId` | Optional. Booksy location number from a search URL, overrides `city`. Works for any Booksy location. |
| `categories` | Booksy categories, searched in order: barber-shop, hair-salon, nail-salon, brows-lashes, massage, skin-care, makeup, hair-removal, tattoo-shop, medical-spa. |
| `minRating` | Only businesses with at least this average rating. |
| `minReviews` | Only businesses with at least this many reviews. |
| `includeDetails` | Also open each business page for description, hours, amenities, staff and links. Default on. |
| `maxResults` | Hard stop for the run. You are billed per result, so this caps the cost. |
| `proxyConfiguration` | Apify proxy is recommended for larger runs. |

Example input:

```json
{
    "city": "chicago",
    "categories": ["nail-salon"],
    "minRating": 4.8,
    "minReviews": 50,
    "maxResults": 100
}
```

### Output

Every record has the same shape (trimmed example):

```json
{
    "id": "booksy:905108",
    "name": "Mikey Fades NYC",
    "category": "Barbershop",
    "address": "227 West 11 St, New York, 10014",
    "city": "New York",
    "state": "New York",
    "zip": "10014",
    "latitude": 40.73677597554068,
    "longitude": -74.00234692027395,
    "rating": 5,
    "reviewCount": 311,
    "website": null,
    "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/mikey_fades/",
    "bookingUrl": "https://booksy.com/en-us/905108_mikey-fades-nyc_barber-shop_30067_new-york-city",
    "minPrice": 25,
    "maxPrice": 60,
    "services": [
        { "name": "Buzz cut", "price": 30, "priceText": "$30.00", "durationMinutes": 20 }
    ],
    "openingHours": [{ "day": "Monday", "open": "10:00", "close": "19:00" }],
    "amenities": ["Parking space", "Credit cards accepted", "Wi-Fi"],
    "staff": ["mikey", "David"],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-10-08T08:37:15.447Z"
}
```

| Field | Meaning |
|---|---|
| `id` | Stable key, safe for deduplication between runs |
| `name`, `category`, `categories` | Business name and Booksy categories |
| `address`, `city`, `state`, `zip`, `latitude`, `longitude` | Location |
| `rating`, `reviewCount` | Average rating and number of reviews |
| `website`, `instagram`, `facebook` | Links the business published, otherwise null |
| `bookingUrl` | Booksy booking page |
| `minPrice`, `maxPrice`, `services` | Service menu (up to 40 services) with price and duration |
| `openingHours`, `amenities`, `staff`, `description`, `contactName` | Full profile fields, filled when `includeDetails` is on |
| `mobileService`, `acceptsGiftCards`, `promoted` | Flags from the listing |

### Pricing

Pay per event: a small fee when a run starts, then a fixed price per result returned. You only pay for records that pass your filters. Set `maxResults` to cap any run.

### Limitations

- Booksy does not publish phone numbers or email addresses on its public pages, so they are not returned.
- Some businesses hide their exact address or serve clients at their location (`mobileService`).
- Each search is limited to what Booksy lists for that location and category, in Booksy's own ranking order.
- Prices are the first price option of each service. Some services have several variants.

### FAQ

**Can I scrape a city that is not in the list?** Yes. Open a Booksy search for it and copy the number before the city name in the URL into `locationId`.

**How many results can I get?** Large cities list hundreds to thousands of businesses per category. Use `maxResults` to set the size you want.

**Is this allowed?** The Actor only reads public pages and does not log in or collect personal data about customers.

# Actor input Schema

## `city` (type: `string`):

US city to search. Use Location ID below for any other Booksy location.

## `locationId` (type: `integer`):

Overrides City. The number at the start of the location in a Booksy search URL, for example 30067 in booksy.com/en-us/s/barber-shop/30067_new-york-city.

## `categories` (type: `array`):

Booksy category slugs, searched in order until Max results is reached.

## `minRating` (type: `number`):

Only return businesses with at least this average rating (0 to 5).

## `minReviews` (type: `integer`):

Only return businesses with at least this many reviews.

## `includeDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Also open each business page for description, opening hours, amenities, staff and website links. Slower, same price.

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

Hard stop for the run. You are billed per result, so this caps the cost.

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

Apify proxy is recommended for larger runs.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "city": "new-york-city",
  "categories": [
    "barber-shop"
  ],
  "minRating": 0,
  "minReviews": 0,
  "includeDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 40,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

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

No description

# 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 = {
    "city": "new-york-city",
    "categories": [
        "barber-shop"
    ],
    "maxResults": 40,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": false
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("talcoe/booksy-salons").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 = {
    "city": "new-york-city",
    "categories": ["barber-shop"],
    "maxResults": 40,
    "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": False },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("talcoe/booksy-salons").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 '{
  "city": "new-york-city",
  "categories": [
    "barber-shop"
  ],
  "maxResults": 40,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}' |
apify call talcoe/booksy-salons --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

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/BKst7mZp7YQezLcJf/builds/WRNLR1e4cWAOZgHkT/openapi.json