ACE Fitness — Find ACE Pro Trainer Scraper

Scrapes ACE-certified personal trainer and health coach profiles from the ACE Fitness "Find an ACE Pro" directory. Returns structured data for each certified professional including name, location, certifications, specialties, bio, contact details, and years of experience.

What it does

ACE Fitness maintains a public directory of certified professionals searchable by ZIP code and radius. This actor uses ACE's internal search API to discover trainer profiles within specified ZIP codes, then scrapes each profile page to collect the full set of structured data.

Two-phase approach:

1. Discovery — Calls the WCF JSON API (/webservices/FindACEPro.svc/GetACEPros) for each ZIP code to retrieve trainer stubs (name, city, state, profile URL).
2. Profile scraping — Fetches each individual profile page to extract certifications, specialties, bio, phone, website, years of experience, and profile photo.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	Integer	10	Maximum number of trainer profiles to scrape
zipCodes	Array of strings	[]	US ZIP codes to search around. Leave empty to use the built-in set of 48 US metro ZIP codes
searchRadius	Integer	50	Radius in miles around each ZIP code

Example input:

{
  "maxItems": 100,
  "zipCodes": ["10001", "90210", "60601"],
  "searchRadius": 50
}

Output

Each record represents one ACE-certified professional:

Field	Type	Description
pro_name	String	Full name
city	String	City
state	String	State abbreviation (e.g. "CA")
country	String	Country code (e.g. "US")
phone	String	Contact phone if listed
website	String	Personal/business website if listed
bio	String	Professional bio/about text
certifications	String	ACE certifications held
specialties	String	Areas of specialty (pipe-separated)
years_as_ace_pro	String	Number of years certified as ACE professional
years_in_industry	String	Years of fitness industry experience (range, e.g. "6-10 years")
profile_url	String	URL of the ACE Fitness profile page
profile_image_url	String	URL of the profile photo

Example record:

{
  "pro_name": "Victoria Tate",
  "city": "DOWNERS GROVE",
  "state": "IL",
  "country": "US",
  "phone": null,
  "website": null,
  "bio": null,
  "certifications": "ACE Certified Group Fitness Instructor, ACE Certified Personal Trainer, ACE Certified Health Coach",
  "specialties": "Active Aging | Group Fitness | Indoor Cycling | Strength Training | Yoga | Women's Health",
  "years_as_ace_pro": "21",
  "years_in_industry": "6-10 years",
  "profile_url": "https://www.acefitness.org/resources/everyone/find-ace-pro/dxw87yv/victoria-tate/",
  "profile_image_url": "https://acefitnessmediastorage.blob.core.windows.net/acepublicfiles/fcff944f-7c91-40c6-90da-7c02251dd009.jpg"
}

Coverage

Without custom ZIP codes, the actor defaults to a set of 48 major US metro ZIP codes covering NYC, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Phoenix, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Austin, Sacramento, Seattle, Denver, Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Charlotte, Jacksonville, Nashville, Birmingham, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City, and Indianapolis.

Results are deduplicated — a trainer appearing in multiple ZIP code searches is only scraped once.

Notes

• No login or API key required
• Requires no proxy (ACE Fitness does not block scraping)
• Profile pages are Cheerio-scraped (no JavaScript rendering needed)
• The internal ACE search API does not support pagination beyond what is returned — for maximum coverage, use many ZIP codes with moderate radius values