GOC Optician & Optometrist Register Scraper

{
  "description": "Search the General Optical Council's public Specialist Register (str.optical.org) for registered optometrists, dispensing opticians, students, and optical businesses across the UK. Look up exact GOC numbers, search by name, specialty, company, or postcode, or export the full business register.",
  "properties": {
    "addresses": {
      "default": [],
      "description": "One or more address, town, or postcode-area text searches for registrant mode. Each value runs its own search and results are merged. Latin-script values only.",
      "editor": "stringList",
      "prefill": [],
      "title": "Address or town contains (one or more)",
      "type": "array"
    },
    "companyNames": {
      "default": [],
      "description": "One or more optical-business names to search in bodyCorporate mode. Each value runs its own search and results are merged. Latin-script values only.",
      "editor": "stringList",
      "prefill": [],
      "title": "Company names (one or more)",
      "type": "array"
    },
    "fetchDetails": {
      "default": true,
      "description": "Visit each result's detail page to capture qualifications, town, every practice address, postcodes, and FTP decision documents. Slower and dependent on the GOC's flaky detail pages; disable for a fast list-only run. Ignored in allBusinesses mode, which is always list-only.",
      "prefill": false,
      "sectionCaption": "Output options",
      "sectionDescription": "Control detail enrichment and the size of the run.",
      "title": "Fetch full profile details",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "forename": {
      "default": "",
      "description": "Optional first-name filter applied to every surname search in registrant mode.",
      "editor": "textfield",
      "prefill": "",
      "title": "First name contains",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "gocNumbers": {
      "default": [],
      "description": "Exact GOC registration numbers, e.g. 01-12294, D-9396, SO-44231, CO-4310. In byGocNumber mode this is the whole lookup list (registrants and businesses can be mixed). Missing hyphens, lowercase, and a missing leading zero are normalised. In search modes the numbers are combined (AND) with the other filters.",
      "editor": "stringList",
      "prefill": [
        "01-12294"
      ],
      "title": "GOC number(s)",
      "type": "array"
    },
    "maxDetailedItems": {
      "default": 2000,
      "description": "Only used when fetchDetails is on. The first N records are enriched; the rest are emitted with list-level fields. Keep this modest for large runs. Ignored in allBusinesses mode.",
      "maximum": 3000,
      "minimum": 1,
      "prefill": 1,
      "title": "Maximum records with full details",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "maxItems": {
      "default": 50,
      "description": "Hard cap on records emitted across all searches. The registrant register is about 33,359 rows at 5 per page, so a complete registrant export cannot finish in one default run. The full business register is about 2,973 rows and allBusinesses is list-only.",
      "maximum": 25000,
      "minimum": 1,
      "prefill": 1,
      "title": "Maximum records",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "mode": {
      "default": "registrant",
      "description": "Choose the task. `registrant` searches individuals by name, register type, specialty, address, postcode, or GOC number. `bodyCorporate` searches registered businesses. `byGocNumber` checks a list of exact GOC numbers and detects registrants vs businesses automatically. `allBusinesses` exports the full registered-business list (~3,000 records).",
      "editor": "select",
      "enum": [
        "registrant",
        "bodyCorporate",
        "byGocNumber",
        "allBusinesses"
      ],
      "enumTitles": [
        "Search individual registrants (name, register type, specialty, location)",
        "Search optical businesses (company name, GOC number, location)",
        "Look up exact GOC number(s) — registrants and/or businesses",
        "All registered optical businesses (full business register, list-only)"
      ],
      "prefill": "byGocNumber",
      "title": "What do you want to collect?",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "postcode": {
      "default": "",
      "description": "UK postcode or outward code (SW1A 1AA or EH1) used with radiusMiles. Works for registrant and business searches. Only real postcodes return results.",
      "editor": "textfield",
      "prefill": "",
      "title": "Postcode for a distance search",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "radiusMiles": {
      "default": 50,
      "description": "Distance in miles from the postcode. Only used when postcode is set.",
      "maximum": 100,
      "minimum": 1,
      "prefill": 50,
      "title": "Distance radius (miles)",
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "registerType": {
      "default": "",
      "description": "Restrict registrant searches to one registration category.",
      "editor": "select",
      "enum": [
        "",
        "Optometrist",
        "Dispensing Optician",
        "Student Optometrist",
        "Student Dispensing Optician",
        "Dispensing Optician, Student Optometrist",
        "Student Dispensing Optician, Student Optometrist"
      ],
      "enumTitles": [
        "Any register type",
        "Optometrist",
        "Dispensing Optician",
        "Student Optometrist",
        "Student Dispensing Optician",
        "Dispensing Optician + Student Optometrist",
        "Student Dispensing Optician + Student Optometrist"
      ],
      "prefill": "",
      "title": "Registered as",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "sortBy": {
      "default": "",
      "description": "Sort registrant results by surname. The GOC register ignores this for business searches.",
      "editor": "select",
      "enum": [
        "",
        "Registrant Surname (a - z)",
        "Registrant Surname (z - a)"
      ],
      "enumTitles": [
        "Default register order",
        "Surname A-Z",
        "Surname Z-A"
      ],
      "prefill": "",
      "title": "Sort order (registrant searches)",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "soundsLikeSurname": {
      "default": false,
      "description": "Match surnames phonetically (e.g. 'Smyth' also finds 'Smith') instead of as a literal substring.",
      "prefill": false,
      "title": "Sounds-like surname matching",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    "speciality": {
      "default": "",
      "description": "Restrict registrant searches to one specialty annotation.",
      "editor": "select",
      "enum": [
        "",
        "Additional supply",
        "Contact lens",
        "Independent prescribing",
        "Supplementary prescribing"
      ],
      "enumTitles": [
        "Any specialty",
        "Additional supply",
        "Contact lens",
        "Independent prescribing",
        "Supplementary prescribing"
      ],
      "prefill": "",
      "title": "Specialty",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "surnames": {
      "default": [],
      "description": "One or more surnames to search. Each surname runs its own search and results are merged without duplicates. Leave empty if you search by company, register type, specialty, address, postcode, or GOC number instead. Latin-script values only: the GOC search ignores non-Latin text.",
      "editor": "stringList",
      "prefill": [],
      "sectionCaption": "Search filters",
      "sectionDescription": "Provide at least one filter for the search modes. Multiple surnames or addresses run separate searches.",
      "title": "Surnames (one or more)",
      "type": "array"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "mode"
  ],
  "schemaVersion": 1,
  "title": "GOC Optician & Optometrist Register Scraper Input",
  "type": "object"
}

{
  "actorOutputSchemaVersion": 1,
  "description": "Registrants and optical businesses from the General Optical Council's public Specialist Register — GOC number, name or company, register type, status, registration date, specialties, qualifications, town, every practice address and postcode, FTP decision documents, and source URL.",
  "properties": {
    "registrants": {
      "description": "Dataset containing all scraped GOC register records.",
      "template": "{{links.apiDefaultDatasetUrl}}/items",
      "title": "GOC registrants / businesses",
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "title": "GOC Optician & Optometrist Register Scraper Output"
}

{
  "actorSpecification": 1,
  "views": {
    "overview": {
      "display": {
        "component": "table",
        "properties": {}
      },
      "title": "Optical registrants / businesses",
      "transformation": {
        "fields": [
          "name",
          "companyName",
          "gocNumber",
          "registerType",
          "registrationStatus",
          "registrationDate",
          "specialities",
          "qualifications",
          "town",
          "practiceAddresses",
          "ftpDecisions",
          "hasConditions",
          "isSuspended",
          "searchTerm",
          "sourceUrl"
        ]
      }
    }
  }
}