Custodyxchange Child Custody Guide Scraper

Scrapes child custody guide articles from Custodyxchange.com, one of the larger consumer-facing custody knowledge bases on the open web. Returns the full article text plus structured metadata — title, H1, section headings, custody type, topic category, related links, and last-updated date — across roughly 400 guide pages.

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Custodyxchange Scraper Features

• Extracts every guide article under the custody topics tree — around 400 pages.
• Returns cleaned body text alongside structured fields, so you get the prose and the metadata in one record.
• Classifies each article by topic category and custody type where the page declares one.
• Captures section headings (H2/H3) as an array, which is handy if you want the article outline without parsing the body.
• Collects related internal links per article, so you can map how the knowledge base connects topics.
• Pure HTML scraping. No browser, no proxies — the content is public and the scraper hits it at a polite pace.

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Who Uses Child Custody Guide Data?

• Legal-tech teams — Seed a custody Q&A or chatbot with vetted, plain-language source material instead of scraping it by hand.
• Family-law marketers — Build content-gap analyses against a 400-page reference corpus, or at least the dataset that makes one possible.
• Researchers and journalists — Pull state-specific custody guidance into a single table for comparison across jurisdictions.
• AI/LLM builders — Fine-tune or RAG-index a clean, topically-tagged custody dataset without the boilerplate of crawling it yourself.
• Paralegals and intake teams — Keep a local, searchable copy of custody explainers for client-facing reference.

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How Custodyxchange Scraper Works

1. Starts from the custody topics index and discovers every guide article linked under it.
2. Visits each article page and extracts the title, headings, body text, and metadata.
3. Tags each record with its topic category and, where the page provides it, a custody type and US state.
4. Returns clean JSON. Set maxItems to cap the run, or leave it empty to take the whole corpus.

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Input

{
  "maxItems": 10
}

Field	Type	Default	Description
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum number of article pages to scrape. Leave empty for all (~400 pages).

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Custodyxchange Scraper Output Fields

{
  "url": "https://www.custodyxchange.com/topics/custody/types/joint-physical-custody.php",
  "topic_category": "types",
  "title": "Joint Physical Custody: How It Works | Custody X Change",
  "h1": "Joint Physical Custody",
  "section_headings": [
    "What is joint physical custody?",
    "Common joint physical custody schedules",
    "Pros and cons of joint physical custody"
  ],
  "body_text": "Joint physical custody means the child lives with both parents for significant periods of time...",
  "custody_type": "joint-physical",
  "state": null,
  "related_links": [
    "https://www.custodyxchange.com/topics/custody/types/joint-legal-custody.php",
    "https://www.custodyxchange.com/topics/custody/schedules/index.php"
  ],
  "last_updated": "2025-11-04"
}

Field	Type	Description
url	string	Full URL of the article page
topic_category	string	Top-level topic category (types, legal-concepts, steps, ages, family-members, special-circumstances, advice)
title	string	HTML page title
h1	string	Main H1 heading of the article
section_headings	array	H2/H3 section heading texts
body_text	string	Cleaned article body text
custody_type	string	Custody type classification (joint-legal, joint-physical, sole-legal, sole-physical, split, primary) where applicable
state	string	US state name for state-specific guide pages
related_links	array	Related internal article URLs found in the article body
last_updated	string	Last-updated date extracted from the article page

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FAQ

How do I scrape Custodyxchange.com?

Custodyxchange Child Custody Guide Scraper handles it. Point it at the actor, set maxItems (or leave it empty for the full ~400-page corpus), and run. It discovers the article URLs and extracts each one for you.

What data can I get from Custodyxchange?

Custodyxchange Child Custody Guide Scraper returns the full article body plus structured metadata: title, H1, section headings, topic category, custody type, US state, related links, and last-updated date. The body text comes cleaned, which is more than you get copying it out of a browser.

Does Custodyxchange Scraper need proxies?

Custodyxchange Child Custody Guide Scraper doesn't need proxies. The guide content is public and the scraper requests it at a reasonable pace — no residential IPs, no browser automation.

How much does it cost to run?

Custodyxchange Child Custody Guide Scraper bills per result on a pay-per-event basis. A full run of ~400 pages is cheap; a capped run is cheaper. You pay for the records you keep.

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Need More Features?

Need custom fields, a different custody site, or state-level filtering? File an issue or get in touch.

Why Use Custodyxchange Scraper?

• No proxies, no browser — pure HTML extraction against a public site, which keeps runs fast and cheap.
• Structured, not just scraped — returns topic category, custody type, and section headings as discrete fields, so you spend less time parsing prose and more time using it.
• Whole-corpus coverage — pulls the full ~400-page custody knowledge base in one run, or as much of it as you ask for.