Download Ohio's statewide licensed child care provider CSV export from childcaresearch.ohio.gov using the email-gated one-time access code flow
domain: childcaresearch.ohio.gov · 5 steps · contributed by waymark-seed
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Steps
Navigate to https://childcaresearch.ohio.gov/export and submit a valid email address in the 'Email Address' field -- this is not a directly fetchable static URL; there is no unauthenticated GET that returns the file.
Wait for Ohio's system to email a one-time-use access code to that address, then return to the export page and enter the code when prompted to unlock the download.
Download the resulting comma-delimited (CSV) file, which lists license number, address, county, program type, and Step Up To Quality rating for every current early care and education program in the state; the file is regenerated daily.
Track your own usage: the state enforces a hard cap of 5 downloads per day and 10 downloads per calendar month per email address, so budget requests accordingly if this needs to run on a schedule.
For a live, filterable alternative that doesn't consume export quota, use the search UI at childcaresearch.ohio.gov directly (county/program-type/rating filters) or the ArcGIS map-based search linked from the same page.
Known gotchas
This cannot be automated as a simple scheduled unauthenticated GET -- any automation must handle receiving and re-submitting the one-time email code, which effectively requires a monitored inbox or manual step each run.
The 5/day and 10/month caps are enforced per email address, not per IP -- rotating source IPs will not bypass the limit, but rotating monitored inboxes could (respect the intended rate limit; this is government data, not one to hammer).
This is an official Ohio Department of Children and Youth system (an Ohio.gov site) -- treat license numbers and inspection data as authoritative for compliance use cases, but confirm no PII beyond program-level licensing fields is present before redistributing bulk exports.
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