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MioDottore scraper API in Python

Italian doctors, dentists and clinics for a specialty in a comune — with the practices where they receive. One POST from Python with specialty and location, rows back as JSON with 29 fields, $0.001 per delivered result. No proxies or parsers to maintain.

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A Python requests snippet that posts { — A Python requests call to the miodottore_doctors collector returns one dict per result, 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/miodottore_doctors/run",
    headers={"Authorization": f"Bearer {os.environ['QD_API_KEY']}"},
    json={
        "specialty": "Dentista",
        "location": "Monza",
        "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("entity_id"), row.get("entity_type"), row.get("name"), row.get("url"))

Python: one MioDottore doctors and clinics run (Dentists in Monza), printing entity_id, entity_type, name, url

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 MioDottore doctors and clinics collector
Parameter	Type	Required	Meaning
`specialty`	string	yes	What to search for, as MioDottore names it — e.g. "Dentista", "Ortopedico", "Ginecologo", "Psicologo".
`location`	string	yes	Italian comune or city, e.g. "Milano", "Monza", "Roma".
`specialization_id`	string	no	MioDottore's own specialization id. Narrows a broad word to one specialty — 38 is Ortopedico. Optional.
`kind`	string: `both`, `doctors`, `facilities`	no (default both)	Professionals, facilities (clinics and poliambulatori), or both.
`include_phones`	boolean	no (default false)	Read each profile as well to add phones, per-practice facility names and published prices.
`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 results to deliver at most (1–200). You pay only for delivered results.

Response fields

29 fields per result.

Fields of each row (result)
Field	Type	What it holds
`rank`	integer	1-based position in the listing order, featured placements first as the page renders them.
`entity_id`	string, nullable	MioDottore's own id for the professional or facility — the de-duplication key.
`entity_type`	string, nullable	"doctor" for a professional, "facility" for a clinic or poliambulatorio.
`name`	string	Name as listed: the professional, with title, or the clinic.
`url`	string, nullable	Profile URL on MioDottore.
`specialty`	string, nullable	Specialty as the card states it, e.g. "ortopedico".
`specialization_ids`	string[], nullable	MioDottore specialization ids for the row — reusable as specialization_id to narrow a later search.
`rating`	number, nullable	Star rating out of 5.
`reviews`	integer, nullable	Number of patient opinions behind the rating.
`city`	string, nullable	City or cities of the practices, as the card lists them.
`addresses`	string[], nullable	Every practice address on the card, in listing order.
`practices_count`	integer, nullable	How many practices the professional receives in.
`services`	string[], nullable	Bookable services shown on the card.
`online_only`	boolean, nullable	True when the professional only offers remote visits — no practice to visit.
`sponsored`	boolean	True for paid placements (featured and fixed slots): real professionals and clinics, placed rather than matched.
`premium_profile`	boolean, nullable	True when the profile is a paid MioDottore profile (online booking enabled). Not a placement: organic results have it too.
`facility`	string, nullable	Name of the first practice on the card.
`street`	string, nullable	Street of the first practice.
`locality`	string, nullable	Town of the first practice.
`province`	string, nullable	Province code of the first practice (MB, MI, RM…).
`latitude`	number, nullable	Latitude of the first practice.
`longitude`	number, nullable	Longitude of the first practice.
`first_service_price`	number, nullable	Price in euro printed next to the first listed service, when the card shows one.
`online_payments`	boolean	True when the card carries the online-payments badge.
`phone`	string, nullable	First phone number from the profile. Null unless include_phones is set.
`phones`	string[], nullable	All phone numbers on the profile. Null unless include_phones is set.
`phone_shared_with`	string, nullable	Set when a number also appears on other rows of the same run — a clinic switchboard rather than a direct practice line.
`practices`	object[], nullable	Practices from the profile as { facility, address } — the facility name the listing does not carry. Null unless include_phones is set.
`prices`	object[], nullable	Published prices as { service, price } in euro. Null unless include_phones is set.

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/miodottore_doctors/run", headers=H,
                  json={**{"specialty":"Dentista","location":"Monza","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 result.

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

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

Before you run it

Questions developers ask

Is there a free MioDottore doctors and clinics API?

Every account gets $2 of free usage each month, about 2,000 results 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 results 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 result, no subscription.

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