# American Alliance of Museums Directory Scraper (`parseforge/aam-museum-directory-scraper`) Actor

Browse the American Alliance of Museums Find a Museum directory for institutions across the United States. Every record includes the museum name, type, city, state, director, website, accreditation status, and year founded. Handy for cultural research and outreach lists.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/parseforge/aam-museum-directory-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [ParseForge](https://apify.com/parseforge) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Lead generation, Other
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $7.69 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

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## 🏛️ AAM Museum Directory Scraper

> 🚀 **Export American Alliance of Museums Find a Museum data in seconds. Clean records straight from the public site, ready for spreadsheets, BI tools, and warehouses.**

The AAM Museum Directory Scraper turns the public [American Alliance of Museums Find a Museum](https://www.aam-us.org/programs/find-a-museum) directory into a clean, structured dataset. It walks the public listing pages, parses each record, and pushes one row per result into an Apify dataset that you can download in seconds.

This actor scrapes only data already visible to anyone visiting the site without logging in. No credentials, no scraping of paywalled or member-only content.

| 🎯 Target Audience | 💡 Primary Use Cases |
|---|---|
| 📊 Analysts | Pull a structured copy of the directory for analysis. |
| 🏢 Business teams | Build lead lists and market maps. |
| 🤖 ML engineers | Build training and benchmark datasets. |
| 📰 Journalists | Verify and cross-reference facts at scale. |
| 👩‍💻 Developers | Avoid writing one-off scrapers. |

### 📋 What the AAM Museum Directory Scraper does

- Fetches the public American Alliance of Museums Find a Museum listing pages.
- Parses each record into a flat row with normalized field names.
- Surfaces upstream errors as a single record with the `error` field populated instead of crashing.
- Streams results into an Apify dataset for instant download.

> 💡 **Why it matters:** The American Alliance of Museums Find a Museum site presents this data as HTML pages built for humans, not pipelines. This actor flattens it into rows your tools can read without writing custom parsers.

### 📊 Data fields

Each record includes: `accreditation`, `city`, `country`, `director`, `founded`, `isMember`, `museumName`, `profileUrl`, `scrapedAt`, `state`, `stateName`, `type`, `website`. All 13 field names come from a real production run, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

> ⚠️ **Good to Know.** This actor scrapes public pages only. Layouts can change. If a field is missing on the source, it will arrive as `null` in the output.

### 🚀 How to use

1. Click **Try for free**.
2. Fill in the optional filters or accept the prefills.
3. Set `maxItems` (or leave the prefill of 10).
4. Click **Start**. Download the dataset in seconds.

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> 💡 **Pro Tip.** Browse the complete [ParseForge collection](https://apify.com/parseforge) for 900 plus production-grade scrapers across business intelligence, real estate, e-commerce, sports, finance, and public records.

**Disclaimer.** This actor scrapes only publicly available data. ParseForge is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by any of the third-party services referenced. Users are responsible for complying with the target site's terms of service and applicable law. [Create a free account w/ $5 credit](https://console.apify.com/sign-up?fpr=vmoqkp).

### 🆘 Need Help?

If you hit a bug, have questions about setup, or need a scraper we haven't built yet, open our [contact form](https://tally.so/r/BzdKgA) or write to parseforge@protonmail.com. We also take on paid custom data projects.

For faster answers, join our [Discord](https://parseforge.co/discord). It's the best place to get support and suggest new actors.

# Actor input Schema

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

How many museums to collect per run.

## `state` (type: `string`):

Two-letter US state code (e.g. CA, NY, TX) to filter museums by location.

## `type` (type: `string`):

Optional museum type filter (Art, History, Science, Children, Natural History, etc.) as listed on the AAM directory.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxItems": 10
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "maxItems": 10
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("parseforge/aam-museum-directory-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "maxItems": 10 }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("parseforge/aam-museum-directory-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print("💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/" + run["defaultDatasetId"])
for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "maxItems": 10
}' |
apify call parseforge/aam-museum-directory-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=parseforge/aam-museum-directory-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/3scO6pGfiCOg3gnkM/builds/6NDl1pMyxpqmbqoSP/openapi.json