US Child Care & Daycare Leads Scraper — Centers, Family Homes, Preschools & Operators (Official State Data)

Disclaimer: This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by US state child-care licensing registries or any government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. "US state child-care licensing registries" is referenced only to describe the public data source this Actor collects from.

Build a complete, contact-ready list of licensed child care providers across the United States — daycare and child care centers, family & group child care homes, preschools / pre-K, Head Start and school-age programs — straight from the official state licensing registries. Every record is a ready-to-use B2B lead: provider name, operator/licensee, director contact, phone (and email where published), full address, licensed capacity by age band, license status & dates, QRIS quality rating, and subsidy / Head Start / food-program participation — plus a lead score.

No login, no cookies, no browser, no API key — fast, reliable extraction from public government open-data registries. Covers 8 states today (CA, NY, NJ, PA, CO, CT, DE, VT — ~90,000+ active providers) with an extensible per-state design.

Why this child care scraper?

Generic Google-Maps "daycare near me" scrapers give you a name and a pin. This actor reads the states' own licensing databases — the system of record — so you get the operator behind the business, the real licensed capacity, the license status and renewal dates, and the quality rating, all normalized into one clean schema across every state.

Data	Google-Maps lead scrapers	This actor
Provider / facility name	✅	✅
Operator / licensee (the company that owns it)	❌	✅ (CA, PA, CO)
Director / administrator contact name	❌	✅ (CA, NY)
Phone	✅	✅ ~99–100% (CA, NY, NJ, CT, DE, VT)
Email	rarely	✅ (VT)
Licensed capacity (total + infant/toddler/preschool/school-age)	❌	✅
Provider type (center / family home / preschool / Head Start…)	partial	✅ normalized
License status, first-licensed & expiration dates	❌	✅ (renewal-window signal)
QRIS quality rating / STARS level	❌	✅ (PA, CO, VT)
Subsidy / Head Start / Pre-K / food-program participation	❌	✅
One unified schema across many states	❌	✅
Lead score + "only new/changed" monitor mode	❌	✅

Who buys child care data (use cases)

• Child care management software — Brightwheel, Procare, Lillio (HiMama), Kangarootime, LineLeader, SmartCare and peers: a clean, deduped list of every licensed center and home, with capacity to size the account.
• Insurance — child care liability, abuse & molestation, property and workers' comp carriers/brokers targeting licensed operators.
• Suppliers & curriculum — classroom furniture, playground, learning materials, food-service and CACFP vendors.
• Franchise development & M&A — find independents to convert or roll up (filter by capacity, quality rating, operator).
• Staffing & recruiting — reach centers hiring directors and teachers.
• Payments / tuition billing / fintech — reach owners who run the books.
• Market research & GovTech — supply analysis, child-care-desert mapping, and policy research from authoritative licensing data.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify — the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the US Child Care & Daycare Leads Scraper, pick one or more states (e.g. CA, NY), and optionally narrow by provider type, capacity, county/city/ZIP, subsidy or quality rating.
3. Click Start and watch licensed-provider leads stream into the dataset table.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results programmatically via the Apify API.

Input

{
    "states": ["CA", "NY"],
    "providerTypes": ["Child Care Center"],
    "activeOnly": true,
    "withPhoneOnly": true,
    "minCapacity": 25,
    "sortBy": "leadScore",
    "maxResults": 1000
}

• states — two-letter codes. Available official-registry states: CA (CDSS CCLD), NY (OCFS), NJ (DCF), PA (DHS/OCDEL), CO (CDEC), CT (OEC), DE (OCCL), VT (CDD). Leave empty for all.
• providerTypes — Child Care Center, Family Child Care Home, Group Child Care Home, School-Age Child Care, Preschool / Pre-K, Head Start, Day / Summer Camp, Other.
• activeOnly (default true) — only active/licensed providers.
• withPhoneOnly / withEmailOnly / withNamedContactOnly — narrow to the most contactable leads.
• minCapacity / maxCapacity / capacityTiers — filter by size (large 100+, medium 25–99, small 1–24, family).
• acceptsSubsidyOnly / headStartOnly / qualityRatedOnly — program & quality filters.
• cities / counties / zipCodes / nameQuery — location and name/chain filters.
• newlyLicensedWithinDays / licenseExpiringWithinDays — new-business and renewal-window signals.
• minLeadScore, sortBy (leadScore / capacityHigh / newest / name), maxResults, maxResultsPerState.
• monitorMode + monitorKey — only output NEW or CHANGED providers since the last run with the same key (see below).
• includeRawFields (default true) — attach the full original registry row under sourceFields.
• proxyConfiguration — not needed; these registries are reachable directly. Leave proxy off for the cheapest runs.

Output

By default you get one clean, dense table of licensed child care providers — every column applies to every row. A provider record:

{
    "recordId": "CA-197416900",
    "state": "CA",
    "providerName": "Bright Beginnings Child Development Center",
    "legalEntityName": "Bright Beginnings Inc",
    "contactName": "Aleta Williams",
    "businessType": null,
    "facilityId": "197416900",
    "licenseNumber": "197416900",
    "providerType": "Child Care Center",
    "providerTypeRaw": "DAY CARE CENTER",
    "isCenter": true,
    "isFamilyHome": false,
    "phone": "(323) 756-8137",
    "hasPhone": true,
    "email": null,
    "street": "146 East 107th Street",
    "city": "Los Angeles",
    "county": "Los Angeles",
    "state": "CA",
    "zip": "90003",
    "fullAddress": "146 East 107th Street Los Angeles, CA 90003",
    "totalCapacity": 122,
    "infantCapacity": 12,
    "preschoolCapacity": 88,
    "schoolAgeCapacity": 22,
    "capacityTier": "large",
    "licenseStatus": "LICENSED",
    "isActive": true,
    "firstLicensedDate": "2010-06-11",
    "licenseExpirationDate": null,
    "providerAgeYears": 16,
    "isNewlyLicensed": false,
    "qualityRating": null,
    "qualityRatingSystem": null,
    "acceptsSubsidy": null,
    "isHeadStart": false,
    "leadScore": 88,
    "leadSignals": ["type:Child Care Center", "largeCapacity", "activeLicense", "hasPhone", "hasNamedContact", "hasOperator"],
    "sourceName": "California CDSS Community Care Licensing — Child Care Centers",
    "sourceUrl": "https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/ccl-facilities",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-21T12:00:00.000Z",
    "sourceFields": { "...": "the full original registry row" }
}

What to expect (field coverage)

This is official, state-entered licensing data, so some fields are populated only where that state publishes them. Verified across all eight registries:

Field	Where it's strong
Provider name, type, address, county, capacity	All states
Phone	CA, NY, NJ, CT, DE, VT (~99–100%)
Email	VT
Director / administrator contact name	CA, NY
Operator / licensee / governing body	CA, PA, CO
Capacity by age band (infant/toddler/preschool/school-age)	NY, CO, VT (+ total everywhere)
License first / expiration dates	CA, CT, VT
QRIS quality rating (STARS / Colorado Shines)	PA, CO, VT
Subsidy / Head Start / Pre-K / food-program flags	PA, CO, DE, VT
Geo (lat/long)	NY, PA, DE

A blank field means that state's registry didn't publish it for that record — not that scraping failed. Nothing is dropped: set includeRawFields and every original column is preserved under sourceFields, so you always get the richest dataset available.

Monitor mode — build a fresh-leads feed

Turn on monitorMode and the actor remembers what it has already seen (per monitorKey) and, on the next run, outputs only providers that are new or whose license/contact/capacity changed. Pair it with Apify Schedules to get a steady feed of newly licensed child care businesses into your CRM — perfect timing for software, insurance and supplier outreach.

Monitor mode is independent of (and complements) Apify's built-in scheduler: the schedule decides when the actor runs; monitor mode decides what's new each time it runs. Use them together.

How much does it cost to scrape US state child-care licensing registries?

This Actor uses Apify's pay-per-event pricing: you are charged only for the results it delivers, with no monthly rental and no start fee. The events it can charge are:

• Provider record - One providerRecord record from US Child Care & Daycare Leads Scraper (Official State Data) in the default dataset — all extracted fields for this item, plus a derived lead score where applicable.

The current price of each event is shown on the Pricing tab of this page. Set a maximum total charge on the run if you want a hard cap on spend, and use the input limits to control how much the Actor fetches.

Automate & schedule

Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API — start runs, fetch datasets, and manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and apify-client for Python — official SDKs.
• Schedules — run it weekly/monthly to capture newly licensed providers as registries update.
• Webhooks — trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/us-child-care-leads-scraper').call({
    states: ['CA', 'NY'],
    providerTypes: ['Child Care Center'],
    withPhoneOnly: true,
    maxResults: 5000,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} child care provider leads`);

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required:

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push new provider leads straight into your CRM.
• Slack — get notified when monitored registries add new providers.
• Google Drive / Sheets — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte — pipe results into your data warehouse.
• GitHub — trigger runs from commits or releases.

Use with AI assistants (MCP)

The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. Call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT, or any agent framework through the Apify MCP server — ask your assistant to "list every licensed child care center in Los Angeles County with phone and capacity" and let it run the scraper for you.

Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire)

This actor is agent-ready — AI agents can discover it, run it, and pay for it autonomously, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses pay-per-event pricing and limited permissions, so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards:

• x402 — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the Apify MCP server — no account, no API key.
• Skyfire — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows.

Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes.

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Tips

• Pick a single provider type (e.g. Child Care Center) for a clean, comparable list, or leave it empty to get the whole licensed universe.
• Size your accounts: sort by capacityHigh or filter minCapacity to surface the biggest centers first; filter capacityTiers: ["family"] for in-home providers.
• Time your outreach: use newlyLicensedWithinDays for brand-new businesses and licenseExpiringWithinDays (CT, VT) for renewal-window conversations.
• Recurring monitoring: combine Schedules with monitorMode to receive only newly licensed providers each run.
• Balance a multi-state pull with maxResultsPerState so one big state doesn't crowd out the rest.

FAQ

Where does the data come from? Official state child-care licensing registries published as government open data: California CDSS Community Care Licensing, New York OCFS, New Jersey DCF, Pennsylvania DHS/OCDEL, Colorado CDEC, Connecticut OEC, Delaware OCCL, and Vermont CDD. No key or login is required.

Which states are covered? CA, NY, NJ, PA, CO, CT, DE and VT today — about 90,000+ active licensed providers. The per-state design is extensible; more states are added over time.

Do I get emails? Email is published by Vermont's registry today; most states publish phone, address and the operator/director name rather than email. Use the withEmailOnly / withPhoneOnly filters to target what you need.

Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel? Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically on every run via the Google Drive integration.

How do I get only newly licensed providers? Turn on monitorMode, set a monitorKey, and schedule the actor — each run returns only new or changed providers.

A field is empty — why? Each state publishes a different set of fields. Blank means that state didn't publish it for that record, never that scraping failed. Set includeRawFields to keep every original column under sourceFields.

Is scraping this data legal? This actor collects publicly available government open data only. You're responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws (e.g. CCPA and state rules for personal data) and each portal's terms.

Data & lawful use

The source is an official public register, published so that anyone can consult it. Records can name individuals (home-based providers), so the output may contain personal data even though it is public. If you are in the EU or UK you are the data controller for what you do with it: have a lawful basis, honour access and deletion requests, and respect the register's own reuse conditions, which can restrict marketing or commercial use.

Under Apify's Standard Actor Contract, which governs your use of this Actor, you are the controller of any personal data in your input and output and scrapesage acts only as your processor: that data is processed solely to run your job, written only to your own Apify storage, never used for any other purpose and never shared onward. If you need help with a data-subject request that involves this Actor's output, open an issue on the Issues tab.

Disclaimer

This Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by US state child-care licensing registries or any government body. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

"US state child-care licensing registries" is referenced only in a descriptive, nominative sense - to identify the public data source this Actor collects from. This Actor is not an official product or service of US state child-care licensing registries and is not authorised or certified by it. It collects only publicly available records; you are responsible for ensuring your use of that data complies with applicable laws, regulations and the source's own terms of use or reuse conditions.

Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests — including additional states — are welcome; this actor is actively maintained.