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Churchfinder Scraper

Scrape church data from ChurchFinder.com with 300,000+ listings across all US states. Extract name, full address, city, state, ZIP code, phone number, denomination, service times, and descriptions. Search by state, city, or provide direct URLs. Ideal for religious organization research and outreach.

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β›ͺ ChurchFinder Scraper

πŸš€ Collect church and place-of-worship data in minutes. Search by state, city, or paste URLs. Export church names, addresses, denominations, and contact info. No coding, no account required.

πŸ•’ Last updated: 2026-04-23 Β· πŸ“Š 15+ fields per church Β· πŸ“ State + city filters Β· β›ͺ Denomination data Β· 🚫 No auth required

Pull structured records from Churchfinder β€” clean fields ready as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, or XML for downstream pipelines.

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Copy this block into ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, or any LLM to start using this actor.

parseforge/churchfinder-scraper on Apify. Call: ApifyClient("TOKEN").actor("parseforge/churchfinder-scraper").call(run_input={...}), then client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).list_items().items for results. Key inputs: maxItems (integer, default 10), startUrls (array, default ["https://www.churchfinder.com/churches/ny/new-york", "https), state (string), city (string), proxyConfiguration (object). Full actor spec: fetch build via GET https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/parseforge~churchfinder-scraper (Bearer TOKEN). Get token: https://console.apify.com/account/integrations

The ChurchFinder Scraper collects church and place-of-worship listings, returning 15+ fields per record: name, denomination, address, city, state, phone, website, service times, and listing URL. Filter by U.S. state and city.

🎯 Target AudienceπŸ’‘ Primary Use Cases
Religious organizations, nonprofit researchers, community planners, outreach teams, demographic analystsChurch directory building, community outreach, demographic research, ministry planning, nonprofit analysis

πŸ“‹ What the ChurchFinder Scraper does

  • πŸ”— URL mode. Paste any ChurchFinder search URL.
  • πŸ“ State filter. Filter by U.S. state.
  • πŸ™οΈ City filter. Filter by city within a state.
  • πŸ“¦ Automatic pagination. Follows pages until maxItems.

Each record includes church name, denomination, full address, phone, website, service times, and listing URL.

πŸ’‘ Why it matters: building church directories and community outreach lists manually means browsing listing pages one by one. This Actor exports structured worship-community data at scale.


🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough.


βš™οΈ Input

InputTypeDefaultBehavior
maxItemsinteger10Max churches.
startUrlsarray[]Direct ChurchFinder URLs.
statestring""U.S. state filter.
citystring""City within state.

Example: churches in Austin, Texas.

{"state":"Texas","city":"Austin","maxItems":50}

πŸ“Š Output

🧾 Schema

FieldTypeExample
β›ͺ namestring"Grace Community Church"
πŸ“‹ denominationstring"Baptist"
πŸ“ addressstring"123 Faith Ave, Austin, TX"
πŸ™οΈ citystring"Austin"
🏳️ statestring"TX"
πŸ“ž phonestring"(512) 555-1234"
🌐 websitestring | null"https://gracecc.org"
πŸ•’ serviceTimesstring | null"Sunday 9:00am, 11:00am"
πŸ”— urlstring"https://www.churchfinder.com/..."
πŸ•’ scrapedAtISO 8601"2026-04-16T00:00:00.000Z"

πŸ“¦ Sample records


✨ Why choose this Actor

Capability
πŸ“State + city filters. Targeted geographic search.
β›ͺDenomination data. Baptist, Catholic, Methodist, Non-Denominational, etc.
πŸ“žContact info. Phone and website per church.
πŸ•’Service times. Worship schedule when available.
⚑Scalable. Single lookups to full state sweeps.
🚫No authentication. Public listing data.

πŸ“ˆ How it compares to alternatives

ApproachCostCoverageFiltersSetup
⭐ ChurchFinder Scraper (this Actor)$5 free creditChurchFinder listingsstate, city⚑ 2 min
Manual browsingFreeOne at a timeUI onlyπŸ•’ Hours
Google Maps searchFreeBroadLocationπŸ•’ Manual

πŸš€ How to use

  1. πŸ“ Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
  2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the ChurchFinder Scraper page.
  3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a state and city.
  4. πŸš€ Run it. Click Start.
  5. πŸ“₯ Download. Grab results in the Dataset tab.

⏱️ Total time: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.


πŸ’Ό Business use cases

β›ͺ Religious Organizations

  • Build church directories
  • Plan community outreach
  • Find partnership churches
  • Track denomination presence

πŸ“Š Research & Planning

  • Study religious demographics
  • Map worship communities
  • Analyze denomination distribution
  • Build nonprofit databases


🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

πŸŽ“ Research and academia

  • Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework
  • Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots
  • Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls
  • Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping

🎨 Personal and creative

  • Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches
  • Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics
  • Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters
  • Hobbyist collections and personal trackers

🀝 Non-profit and civic

  • Transparency reporting and accountability projects
  • Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data
  • Community-run databases for local issues
  • Investigative journalism on public records

πŸ§ͺ Experimentation

  • Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data
  • Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend
  • Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora
  • Test dashboard concepts with live input

πŸ€– Ask an AI assistant about this scraper

Open a ready-to-send prompt about this ParseForge actor in the AI of your choice:

❓ Frequently Asked Questions

πŸ”Œ Automating ChurchFinder Scraper

  • 🟒 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
  • 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
  • πŸ“š See the Apify API documentation for full details.

πŸ”Œ Integrate with any app


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πŸ†˜ Need Help? Open our contact form to request a new scraper or report an issue.


⚠️ Disclaimer: Independent tool, not affiliated with ChurchFinder. Only publicly available directory data is collected.

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