🇨🇱 Rutificador Actor – Chilean People & RUT Lookup Discover quick and reliable access to Chilean personal data with Rutificador Actor. Whether you need to validate a RUT (Rol Único Tributario), find a person’s full name, or enrich customer records, this actor turns the public "Rutificador" search engine (Nombrerutyfirma.com) into a ready-to-use API. ## ✨ What can you get with this actor? * Search by RUT → retrieve the person’s full name, gender, address, city/commune, and more. * Search by Name → obtain matching RUT numbers plus the same demographic details. * Receive the data in clean JSON ready for databases, CRMs, CRMs, spreadsheets, or further analysis. * Automatically stamped with extraction date & time for easy auditing. ## 🔍 Typical use cases 1. KYC / Customer onboarding – verify that a provided RUT belongs to a real person. 2. Lead enrichment – append gender or location fields to existing customer lists. 3. Fraud prevention & AML – cross-check identities before allowing high-risk transactions. 4. Data journalism & research – gather statistics about population segments in Chile. 5. Contact data cleaning – spot typos in RUTs or duplicate person records. ## 🆚 Why choose this actor? * Dual search mode – supports both RUT → Name and Name → RUT in one tool. * Proxy rotation – mimics a real local user, drastically reducing blocks. * High concurrency – built with async HTTP requests to process thousands of queries fast. * Actively maintained – published & supported by the DataCach team with quick response times. ## 📥 Input | Field | Type | Required | Description | |-------|------|----------|-------------| | search_type | string | ✅ | Either "rut" or "name". Determines which endpoint to use. | | search_terms | array | ✅ | List of RUTs or Names to look up. | ### Example json { "search_type": "rut", "search_terms": [ "20.217.007-2", "13.456.789-K" ] } #### Partial RUT wildcard search You can also submit a partial RUT prefix and the actor will return all matches that start with those digits. For example, searching for "20.217" will retrieve every record whose RUT begins with 20.217. json { "search_type": "rut", "search_terms": [ "20.217" ] } ## 📤 Output Each element in the dataset corresponds to one row returned by Rutificador. json { "nombre": "Barraza Barraza Ester Escarlett", "rut": "20.217.007-2", "sexo": "MUJ", "direccion": "Mar Del Norte 1439 Pobl. Miramar", "ciudad/comuna": "Arica", "extraction_datetime": "2025-08-08T23:18:15.852301+00:00" } ## 🚀 How to run ### From Apify Console 1. Click Run. 2. Paste the JSON input like the example above. 3. Watch the live log; results will appear in the Dataset tab. ### From code python from apify_client import ApifyClient client = ApifyClient("<APIFY_API_TOKEN>") run = client.actor("username~rutificador").call({ "search_type": "name", "search_terms": ["Juan Perez"] }) for item in client.dataset(run["defaultDatasetId"]).iterate_items(): print(item) Equivalent cURL call: bash curl -X POST \ -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \ -H 'Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>' \ -d '{"search_type":"rut","search_terms":["20.217.007-2"]}' \ https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/username~rutificador/runs?waitForFinish=1 ## ⚙️ Technical notes * Uses the Apify Python SDK with asyncio for maximum throughput. * Relies on BeautifulSoup4 to parse the HTML table returned by Nombrerutyfirma. * Automatically retries failed requests and logs HTTP status codes for transparency. * Free accounts are limited to the first search term to stay within platform limits. ## 💬 Support & feedback Need help or want a new feature? Open an issue on Apify – we reply within one business day. --- Made with ❤️ by the DataCach team.