How To Extract RateMDs Data To Create Doctor’s List In A City?

RateMDs is a wonderful way of finding specialists or local doctors within your city. It helps patients in leaving reviews of doctors, which are in various practice fields.

This also permits practitioners in managing their listings where they could list their websites, social media profiles, locations and phone numbers.

RateMDs helps you get a doctor or facilities in many countries including the United States, Canada, South Africa, India, etc.

It is a wonderful way for the patients to get the finest doctors in a city as well as share experiences with the other patients.

However, why would you need to extract RateMDs for creating a listing of health facilities and doctors?

We can offer you three reasons for scraping RateMDs data.

Lead Generation

It is a huge reason of using web scraping for creating a listing of doctors. You can utilize this listing to assist your company.

Suppose you’re the SaaS Company as well as your targeted market is medical industry. Now, you can make the list of targeted market within minutes.

You can make different lists for different cities within a few minutes of data scraping. You could even increase your services to other country!

However, it doesn’t only assist SaaS companies, it can help all the medical technology or products as well as B2B companies including digital marketing companies.

Competitor’s Analysis

Suppose you’re a doctor or a specialist. You may easily extract your competitors within the city. You can observe their website, social media plans, brand reputation, as well as targeted keywords.

As RateMDs rates all their practitioners, it’s easy to extract top 20 specialists as well as execute what they do in your practice.

Brand Reputation

As patients could leave reviews, it’s easy to extract yours within minutes. You can extract both good as well as bad to see the spaces in the business plans where you could improve.

Let’s see how to extract RateMDs data as well as make the doctor list in minutes.

Extracting RateMDs Doctor’s Details

Here, we will extract "certified doctors in Toronto". We would scrape their name, job title, RateMDs’ profile link, total reviews, Image URLs, as well as business website.

Let’s Get Started

1. Firstly, ensure to download as well as install Web Screen Scraping Scraper. We will utilize this web scraper to do this project.

2. Open Web Screen Scraping Scraper and click on the "New Project" option as well as utilize a URL from RateMDs result pages. Now, the page will get rendered within the app.

Extracting RateMDs Result Pages

1. When the site get rendered, the selection function would automatically get created and if not, you could click on plus symbol next to page selection.
2. Then click on first doctors’ name on a page. A name that you’ve clicked would be green color to specify that this has been chosen.
3. Web Screen Scraping Scraper will now indicate other elements that you wish to scrape. All the rest doctor names would get highlighted in color yellow. Then click on second name given in the list. Then, all the items would get highlighted in color green.
4. On left-hand sidebar, just rename the selection with Doctor_name. You would observe that Web Screen Scraping Scraper is now scraping Doctor’s name as well as RateMDs’ profile URLs for all doctors.
5. On left-hand side, just click PLUS (+) symbol next to your product selection as well as select the command ‘Relative Select’.
6. Use the command ‘Relative Select’, click on initial doctor’s name given on a page as well as on the job title. You would see the arrow connecting two selections.
7. Develop new command that you’ve made and delete a URL, which is also getting scraped by default.
8. Just repeat the steps 4 to 6 to scrape total reviews as well as images. Just ensure to rename new selections consequently.

Now, we have chosen all the required data to extract from result pages. Your project will look like this now:

Extract Doctor’s RateMDs Lists

Now, we would tell Web Screen Scraping Scraper to click all the doctors we’ve chosen as well as scrape extra data from every page. Here, we scrape the company website.

Initially, on left-hand sidebar, just click on 3 dots given next to main_template text.

Then rename the template with doctor_results_page. The templates assist Web Screen Scraping Scraper to keep various page layouts separately.

1. Then, utilize the PLUS (+) symbol next to product selection as well as select "Click" command. One pop-up will come asking if the link is "next page" tab. Click the option "No" as well as Create New Template and input the new template’s name. Here, we will utilize Doctors_profile.
2. Web Screen Scraping Scraper will automatically make the new template as well as render a doctor’s profile page for first doctor given in the list.
3. Then click on "Visit website" link. Web Screen Scraping Scraper will scraper a doctor’s site URL.

Add Pagination

In case, you want to run a project now, you will only extract 1st result page. RateMDs has 10 doctors for every page, however, we wish to make the list, which will provide us different doctors might be 50 to 100 according to how many pages you need to extract.

We need to tell Web Screen Scraping Scraper to click on next button for scraping the given pages.

Let’s set Web Screen Scraping Scraper to navigate next 10 result pages.

1. On left-hand sidebar, just return to doctor_results_page template and you may also require to change a browser tab with a search result page also.
2. Then click on PLUS (+) symbol next to page selection as well as opt for ‘Select’ command.
3. After that, choose Next page link give at bottom of a RateMDs page. Then rename selection with next_button.
4. By default, Web Screen Scraping Scraper will scrape the text as well as URL from the link, so increase the new next_button selection as well as remove the 2 commands.
5. Then, click on PLUS (+) symbol of next_button selection as well as utilize ‘Click’ command.
6. One pop-up will come asking if it is the "Next" link. Then click on Yes as well as enter number of pages that you’d love to navigate. Here, we will extract 9 extra pages.

The final project will look like this:

Run and Export the Project

Now this project is all set to extract RateMDs. For doing so, just click on left-hand sidebar as well as click on green colored "Get Data" switch.

You would be taken to the page:

Here, you could test, run or plan the project. For bigger and longer projects, we suggest doing the Test Run to ensure that your data would get scrapped as well as formatted appropriately.

However, for the given project, just click on "Run" button and start scraping.

When Web Screen Scraping Scraper completes the website scraping, you would get notified through email as well as you can download the scraped data in the Excel, CSV, or JSON file format.

Conclusion

Now as you understand how to extract RateMDs to make the listing of doctors as well as specialists in the given city!

However, Web Screen Scraping Scraper can extract other websites for creating the list of lead generation as well as competitor analysis.

For more details, contact Web Screen Scraping or ask for a free quote!

Sam Morris, Writing article and blogs realted to data analystics and data extraction process.