/vitals/doctors/search

POST /api/vitals/doctors/search

Price: 10 credits

Search Vitals doctors by medical specialty, optionally narrowed to a US state. Returns name, gender, degrees, NPI, primary specialty, location, distance, years of experience, accepted-new-patients and telehealth flags, spoken languages, patient star rating with counts and the profile URL for each provider.

How to use it

Search Vitals doctors by specialty slug (from the specialties endpoint), optionally narrowed by state. Each result has id (slug), name, first_name/middle_name/last_name, prefix, gender, degrees, npi, image, primary_specialty, specialties_text, city/state, distance, years_of_experience, accepts_new_patients, is_telehealth, languages, rating, rating_count, review_count and profile_url.

Parameters

• access-token string required

Request body

• timeout integer — Max scrapping execution timeout (in seconds) (default: 300; min: 20; max: 1500)
• specialty string required — Specialty slug to browse (from the specialties endpoint) (examples: "cardiovascular-disease"; minLength: 1)
• state string nullable — US state to narrow the search (one of: "al", "ak", "az", "ar", "ca", "co", "ct", "de", "dc", "fl", "ga", "hi", "id", "il", "in", "ia", "ks", "ky", "la", "me", "md", "ma", "mi", "mn", "ms", "mo", "mt", "ne", "nv", "nh", "nj", "nm", "ny", "nc", "nd", "oh", "ok", "or", "pa", "ri", "sc", "sd", "tn", "tx", "ut", "vt", "va", "wa", "wv", "wi", "wy")
• count integer required — Max number of results to return (min: 1)

Response

• @type string (default: "VitalsDoctorSearchResult")
• id string nullable
• alias string nullable
• name string nullable
• first_name string nullable
• middle_name string nullable
• last_name string nullable
• prefix string nullable
• gender string nullable
• degrees array (default: [])
• npi string nullable
• image string nullable
• primary_specialty string nullable
• specialties_text string nullable
• city string nullable
• state string nullable
• distance number nullable
• years_of_experience integer nullable
• accepts_new_patients boolean nullable
• is_telehealth boolean nullable
• languages array (default: [])
• rating number nullable
• rating_count integer nullable
• review_count integer nullable
• profile_url string nullable

Errors

• 422 — The request body did not validate Check the fields against this schema. A URN with the wrong prefix is the most common cause.
• 408 — The request ran past its time limit Raise `timeout` in the request body, up to the maximum this endpoint documents. Lowering `count` or turning off the `with_*` flags also helps, because less work finishes sooner.
• 412 — The entity was not found, or a precondition failed Retrying will not help: either the entity does not exist, or the input points at a different one.
• 429 — Too many requests: a rate limit or a usage window is exhausted When the response carries an X-Retry-After header, wait that many seconds and retry: the same number is in the body as `detail.retry_after`, and the limit clears once that window passes. The message in the body names the limit that was hit.
• 500 — Something broke on our side Retrying will not help. If it keeps happening, send us the X-Request-ID from the response headers.
• 529 — Rate limit reached, or the endpoint is overloaded Wait at least 30 seconds, then retry.

Response headers

• X-Error — Error message text (present only on error)
• X-Request-ID — Unique request identifier
• X-Execution-Time — Execution time in seconds
• X-Result-Count — How many records the body carries. 0 means an empty result, which is a normal answer and not by itself an error. A non-zero count can come back together with X-Error when the failure happened partway through — read this header and X-Error independently.
• X-Total-Available-Results — How many records exist for this query, when the endpoint can say. On a `dry_run` request this is the answer and the body is empty. It saturates: the endpoint's documented maximum means 'at least that many', any smaller number is exact.
• X-Warning — Present when the request body carried keys this endpoint does not document. They were ignored, so any filter you meant to apply through them did not apply. Check the spelling against this schema and retry.
• X-Retry-After — Seconds to wait before retrying. Present only on 429.