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Healthgrades Scraper API in Python

Doctors for a specialty in a US location — rating, review count, practice, address, phone, accepting new patients. One POST from Python with specialty and location, rows back as JSON with 41 fields, $0.001 per delivered doctor. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

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A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the healthgrades_doctors collector returns one dict per doctor, at $0.001 each.

First call

Install, call, read the rows.

pip install requests

The only dependency.

import os, requests

r = requests.post(
    "https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/healthgrades_doctors/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "specialty": "cardiology",
        "location": "Austin, TX",
        "max_results": 40,
    },
    timeout=120,
)
r.raise_for_status()
run = r.json()["payload"]
print(run["count"], "rows,", run["cost"]["usd"], "USD")
for row in run["results"]:
    print(row.get("provider_id"), row.get("npi"), row.get("name"), row.get("specialty"))

Python: one Healthgrades doctors run (Cardiologi ad Austin), printing provider_id, npi, name, specialty

The key comes from an environment variable, never from the code. The run answers in the same request when it finishes in time; payload.results holds the rows and payload.cost what they cost.

Request parameters

What the collector takes.

Input of the Healthgrades doctors collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`specialty`	string	yes	Specialty, condition or procedure to search for, e.g. "cardiology", "dentistry", "family medicine" or "knee replacement".
`location`	string	yes	US city and state or ZIP code, e.g. "Austin, TX" or "33139".
`country`	string	no	ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 code — proxy exit geo and Google locale (gl). Omit for the default pool.
`max_results`	integer	no (default 20)	How many doctors to deliver at most (1–200). You pay only for delivered doctors.

Response fields

41 fields per doctor.

Fields of each row (doctor)
Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	1-based position across the merged pages, sponsored cards first as the page renders them.
`provider_id`	string, nullable	Healthgrades provider id (pwid) — the key in the profile URL and the de-duplication key.
`npi`	string, nullable	National Provider Identifier.
`name`	string	Doctor's name with credentials, e.g. "Dr. Norman Risinger, MD".
`specialty`	string, nullable	Primary specialty, e.g. "Cardiology".
`specialties`	string[], nullable	All specialist descriptions Healthgrades lists, e.g. ["Internist", "Cardiology Specialist"].
`rating`	number, nullable	Patient satisfaction rating out of 5. Null when Healthgrades suppresses surveys for the row.
`reviews`	integer, nullable	Number of patient ratings behind the score.
`written_reviews`	integer, nullable	How many of those ratings include a written review.
`accepting_new_patients`	boolean, nullable	Whether the doctor accepts new patients, as Healthgrades states it.
`telehealth`	boolean, nullable	Whether virtual visits are offered.
`phone`	string, nullable	The practice's phone number as published. Never a sponsor call-tracking number, and null when Healthgrades hides the phone for that placement.
`practice`	string, nullable	Office or practice name, e.g. "Austin Heart - South".
`address`	string, nullable	Full address on one line.
`street`	string, nullable	Street line only.
`city`	string, nullable	City.
`state`	string, nullable	US state code.
`zipcode`	string, nullable	ZIP code.
`latitude`	number, nullable	Office GPS latitude.
`longitude`	number, nullable	Office GPS longitude.
`distance_miles`	number, nullable	Distance in miles from the searched location, as Healthgrades computes it.
`gender`	string, nullable	Gender as Healthgrades publishes it ("M" / "F").
`years_experience`	integer, nullable	Years in practice, rounded. Healthgrades states it on a minority of rows; null elsewhere.
`sponsored`	boolean	True for the featured cards Healthgrades places above the results — real doctors, but paid placements that repeat on every page of the search.
`url`	string, nullable	Healthgrades profile URL.
`image`	string, nullable	Profile photo URL.
`phones`	string[], nullable	Every phone number of the displayed office; `phone` is the first.
`insurance_accepted`	string[], nullable	Insurance plans the provider accepts, as Healthgrades lists them.
`offices_count`	integer, nullable	Number of office locations on the profile.
`about`	string, nullable	Provider biography, up to 1,200 characters.
`care_philosophy`	string, nullable	Care philosophy statement, up to 800 characters.
`patient_highlights`	string[], nullable	What patients most often say went well, e.g. "Listened/answered questions".
`rating_percent`	integer, nullable	The rating expressed on a 0–100 scale, as Healthgrades computes it.
`same_day_appointments`	boolean, nullable	True when same-day appointments are offered.
`next_day_appointments`	boolean, nullable	True when next-day appointments are offered.
`evening_appointments`	boolean, nullable	True when evening appointments are offered.
`saturday_appointments`	boolean, nullable	True when Saturday appointments are offered.
`telehealth_only`	boolean, nullable	True when the provider only offers telehealth visits.
`healthgrades_choice`	boolean, nullable	True when the provider holds the Healthgrades Choice recognition.
`top_hospital_affiliation`	boolean, nullable	True when affiliated with a hospital Healthgrades ranks as a top hospital.
`years_since_graduation`	integer, nullable	Years since medical school graduation, when stated.

Add ?format=csv to the runs endpoint to get the same rows as CSV.

Long runs

Run in the background, then poll.

A run that needs more time can go to the background: send "async": true, get 202 with the run id, and poll the runs endpoint until the status is done. Reading a run is free.

import os, time, requests

H = {"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"}
r = requests.post("https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/healthgrades_doctors/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"specialty":"cardiology","location":"Austin, TX","max_results":40}, "async": True}, timeout=30)
run_id = r.json()["payload"]["run_id"]
while True:
    run = requests.get(f"https://api.quanticdata.io/v1/scraper/collectors/runs/{run_id}", headers=H, timeout=30).json()["payload"]
    if run["status"] in ("done", "failed"):
        break
    time.sleep(5)
print(run["status"], run["count"])

Python: background run and polling

Errors

What can come back, and what is billed.

Collector run errors
Status	Meaning	Billed
`400`	The input does not match the collector (`payload.errors`)	No
`401`	Missing or wrong API key	No
`402`	Balance and free credit do not cover the run: top up	No
`422`	The input can never resolve; retrying the same input cannot help	No
`424`	The run failed at the source (blocked, timed out, layout changed); safe to retry	No
`429`	Rate limit or a per-account brake; wait for `Retry-After`	No

Only delivered rows are billed: a run that delivers nothing costs nothing.

Price

$0.001 per delivered doctor.

What Healthgrades doctors rows cost at list price
Rows	Cost
1	$0.001
1,000	$1.00
10,000	$10.00

Up to 200 doctors per run; split larger jobs into several runs. The $2 free credit every month covers about 2,000 doctors. No subscription; paid tiers lower the unit price. All collector prices: collector pricing.

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free Healthgrades doctors API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 2,000 doctors of this collector at $0.001 each, with no card.

Do I have to handle proxies, retries or blocks?

No. The collector runs on our network and handles them; a run blocked at the source returns 424 and is not billed.

How many rows can one run return?

Up to 200 doctors per run (the max_results input, where the collector has one).

Can an AI agent run it?

Yes: the MCP server exposes it as the run_collector tool, with the same input and price. See the MCP server.

Run it on the free credit.

Create an API key, export it as QD_API_KEY and run the example. $0.001 per delivered doctor, no subscription.

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