# Rover Scraper (`solidcode/rover-scraper`) Actor

\[💰 $2.20 / 1K] Extract pet-care sitters and dog walkers from Rover by location or URL. Get names, prices, ratings, repeat clients, distance, background-check and Star Sitter status, plus optional full profiles and reviews.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/solidcode/rover-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [SolidCode](https://apify.com/solidcode) (community)
- **Categories:** Developer tools, Lead generation
- **Stats:** 3 total users, 0 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.20 / 1,000 sitters

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Rover Scraper

Pull pet-care providers from Rover at scale — sitter names, profile URLs, per-service rates, star ratings, repeat-client counts, background-check status, full bios, and the actual review text behind every rating. Search by ZIP or city, or paste Rover search URLs, across five service categories nationwide. Built for pet-care marketers, marketplace analysts, and lead-gen teams who need structured Rover sitter and review data without copying profiles one page at a time.

### Why This Scraper?

- **Individual reviews, not just a count** — every review comes back as its own row with reviewer name, date, star rating, full review text, the pet's name, and which service it was for. Competing Rover scrapers expose only a review *number*.
- **Five Rover service categories** — Dog Boarding, House Sitting, Drop-In Visits, Doggy Day Care, and Dog Walking, each searchable by name.
- **Full sitter profiles on demand** — bio, every service offered with its individual rate and unit, response rate, response time, years of experience, accepted pet sizes (small / medium / large / giant), and the photo gallery.
- **Rating and price filters that hold exactly** — set a minimum star rating, a minimum price, or a maximum price and every row you receive is inside your range, checked against the base rate published in the `price` column. Sitters outside it are never delivered and never billed.
- **Trust signals on every sitter** — background-check status, the Star Sitter badge, repeat-client count, and distance in miles from your search point.
- **Per-service rates with units** — price plus its unit ("per night", "per walk", "per visit") so a boarding rate is never confused with a walking rate.
- **Search by location or by URL, nationwide** — type "Austin, TX" or "10001", or paste a Rover results page; coverage spans the United States.
- **Two clean record types** — `sitter` rows and `review` rows share a stable, camelCase schema with ISO-8601 timestamps, ready to load straight into a database or sheet.

### Use Cases

**Pet-Care Market Research**

- Map sitter supply and pricing by ZIP, city, or metro
- Compare average rates across the five service categories
- Track Star Sitter density in target neighborhoods
- Benchmark response rates and response times across a market

**Lead Generation for Pet Businesses**

- Build prospect lists of active, highly-rated sitters in a region
- Identify sitters with high repeat-client counts for partnership outreach
- Find background-checked providers to recruit or feature
- Segment sitters by the services they offer

**Competitive Rate Analysis**

- Pull per-night, per-walk, and per-visit rates side by side
- Compare your own listing's pricing against local competitors
- Spot premium sitters by rating, repeat clients, and review volume
- Monitor how rates shift across seasons and locations

**Reputation & Review Mining**

- Collect full review text to surface what owners praise or complain about
- Analyze sentiment by service type or pet name mentions
- Track review recency and rating trends for any sitter
- Build a sitter directory enriched with real customer feedback

### Getting Started

#### Quick Sitter Sweep

Search one ZIP for dog boarding — fast, sitters only:

```json
{
    "searchLocations": ["10001"],
    "serviceType": "overnight-boarding",
    "maxResults": 50
}
```

#### Filtered, Multi-Location Search

Top-rated, mid-priced dog walkers across several cities:

```json
{
    "searchLocations": ["Austin, TX", "Denver, CO", "78701"],
    "serviceType": "dog-walking",
    "minRating": 4,
    "minPrice": 20,
    "maxPrice": 40,
    "maxResults": 200
}
```

#### Full Profiles + Reviews

Enrich each sitter with their complete profile and up to 30 reviews:

```json
{
    "searchLocations": ["Chicago, IL"],
    "serviceType": "doggy-day-care",
    "includeSitterDetails": true,
    "includeReviews": true,
    "maxReviewsPerSitter": 30,
    "maxResults": 100
}
```

#### Using a Rover URL

Paste a Rover search-results URL — its filters are used exactly as they appear:

```json
{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.rover.com/search/?category=overnight-boarding&centerlat=40.75&centerlng=-73.99"
    ],
    "maxResults": 100
}
```

### Input Reference

#### What to Scrape

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|---------|-------------|
| `startUrls` | string\[] | `[]` | Paste full Rover search URLs. Filters already in the URL are used as-is; the Search Filters below are ignored for URLs. |
| `searchLocations` | string\[] | `["10001"]` | ZIP codes or "City, ST" (e.g. "Austin, TX"). Each is searched with the Search Filters below. No need to build URLs manually. |

#### Search Filters

These apply to Search Locations only. URLs carry their own filters.

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|---------|-------------|
| `serviceType` | select | `Dog Boarding` | Which pet-care service to search: Dog Boarding, House Sitting, Drop-In Visits, Doggy Day Care, or Dog Walking. |
| `minRating` | integer | — | Only return sitters with at least this average star rating (1–5). |
| `minPrice` | integer | — | Only return sitters whose base price is at least this amount (USD). |
| `maxPrice` | integer | — | Only return sitters whose base price is at most this amount (USD). |

#### Options

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|---------|-------------|
| `maxResults` | integer | `100` | Maximum sitters across all URLs and locations combined. Set to 0 for unlimited (capped internally at 10,000 for safety). Start with 10–50 to test. |
| `includeSitterDetails` | boolean | `false` | Fetch each sitter's full profile: bio, all services with rates, response rate and time, years of experience, accepted pets, and photos. Richer data, slower. |

#### Reviews

| Parameter | Type | Default | Description |
|-----------|------|---------|-------------|
| `includeReviews` | boolean | `false` | Also collect each sitter's reviews — text, reviewer, date, and rating. Off by default, so you only collect reviews when you opt in. |
| `maxReviewsPerSitter` | integer | `20` | Maximum reviews per sitter when reviews are on. Set to 0 for all available. Newest reviews come first. |

### Output

The actor produces two record types, distinguished by `recordType`: one `sitter` row per provider, and (when reviews are enabled) one `review` row per review, each linked back to its sitter.

#### Sitter record

```json
{
    "recordType": "sitter",
    "name": "Jessica M.",
    "profileId": "abc123xyz",
    "url": "https://www.rover.com/members/jessica-m/",
    "serviceType": "overnight-boarding",
    "serviceTypeLabel": "Dog Boarding",
    "price": 65.0,
    "priceUnit": "per night",
    "currency": "USD",
    "rating": 5.0,
    "reviewCount": 218,
    "repeatClients": 47,
    "neighborhood": "Chelsea",
    "city": "New York",
    "state": "NY",
    "zip": "10001",
    "distanceMiles": 1.03,
    "latitude": 40.7465,
    "longitude": -74.0014,
    "profilePhoto": "https://images.rvcdn.com/example-medium.jpg",
    "backgroundChecked": true,
    "starSitter": true,
    "bio": "I have cared for dogs of all sizes for over eight years...",
    "responseRate": 100,
    "responseTime": "within an hour",
    "yearsOfExperience": 8,
    "services": [
        { "type": "overnight-boarding", "label": "Dog Boarding", "price": 65.0, "unit": "per night" },
        { "type": "dog-walking", "label": "Dog Walking", "price": 22.0, "unit": "per walk" }
    ],
    "acceptedPets": ["small", "medium", "large"],
    "photos": ["https://images.rvcdn.com/gallery1.jpg"],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-11T14:30:00Z"
}
```

##### Core Fields

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `recordType` | string | Always `"sitter"` for these rows |
| `name` | string | Sitter or walker display name |
| `profileId` | string | Stable Rover profile identifier |
| `url` | string | Full Rover profile URL |
| `serviceType` | string | Service slug Rover returned this result under |
| `serviceTypeLabel` | string | Human-readable service name |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO-8601 timestamp of extraction |

##### Pricing & Ratings

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `price` | number | The sitter's rate for this service, exactly as Rover lists it in search results. Switch on **Include Full Sitter Profile** to have every rate confirmed against the sitter's own profile — without it, a small number of Rover listings quote a sitter's extended-booking rate instead of their standard one |
| `priceUnit` | string | Unit for the price (per night / per walk / per visit) |
| `currency` | string | ISO currency code (USD) |
| `rating` | number | Average star rating. Empty until Rover publishes an average, which some sitters do not have yet even with reviews on their profile |
| `reviewCount` | number | Total number of star ratings on the profile (can exceed the number of written `review` rows returned, since not every rating includes written text) |
| `repeatClients` | number | Count of repeat clients |

##### Location & Trust

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `neighborhood` | string | Sitter neighborhood, where Rover lists one. Coverage varies by metro |
| `city` | string | City |
| `state` | string | Two-letter state code |
| `zip` | string | ZIP code |
| `distanceMiles` | number | Distance from the search point |
| `latitude` | number | Latitude |
| `longitude` | number | Longitude |
| `profilePhoto` | string | Profile photo URL |
| `backgroundChecked` | boolean | Background-check verified |
| `starSitter` | boolean | Rover "Star Sitter" badge. Empty in markets where Rover does not publish Star Sitter status, so you can tell "not a Star Sitter" apart from "not shown here" |

##### Profile Details

Populated when `includeSitterDetails` is on.

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `bio` | string | Full profile bio |
| `responseRate` | number | Response rate percentage |
| `responseTime` | string | Typical response time |
| `yearsOfExperience` | number | Years of pet-care experience |
| `services` | object\[] | All offered services, each `{ type, label, price, unit }` |
| `acceptedPets` | string\[] | Accepted pet sizes (small / medium / large / giant) |
| `photos` | string\[] | Gallery photo URLs |

#### Review record

Emitted only when `includeReviews` is on. Each review links to its sitter via `sitterProfileId`, `sitterName`, and `sitterUrl`.

```json
{
    "recordType": "review",
    "sitterProfileId": "abc123xyz",
    "sitterName": "Jessica M.",
    "sitterUrl": "https://www.rover.com/members/jessica-m/",
    "author": "Daniel R.",
    "date": "2026-05-22",
    "rating": 5.0,
    "text": "Jessica was wonderful with our anxious rescue. Daily photos and a perfectly happy pup at pickup.",
    "petName": "Cooper",
    "serviceType": "overnight-boarding",
    "serviceTypeLabel": "Dog Boarding",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-11T14:30:05Z"
}
```

| Field | Type | Description |
|-------|------|-------------|
| `recordType` | string | Always `"review"` for these rows |
| `sitterProfileId` | string | Profile ID of the reviewed sitter |
| `sitterName` | string | Name of the reviewed sitter |
| `sitterUrl` | string | Profile URL of the reviewed sitter |
| `author` | string | Reviewer's display name |
| `date` | string | Date the review was posted |
| `rating` | number | Star rating the reviewer gave |
| `text` | string | Full review text |
| `petName` | string | Name of the pet in the review |
| `serviceType` | string | Service slug the review was for |
| `serviceTypeLabel` | string | Human-readable service name |
| `scrapedAt` | string | ISO-8601 timestamp of extraction |

### Tips for Best Results

- **Start small** — set `maxResults` to 10–50 on your first run to confirm the data fits your needs, then scale up.
- **Sweep first, enrich later** — leave reviews off for a fast pass to find the sitters you care about, then re-run with `includeReviews` on just your shortlist. This keeps big runs lean and cost-predictable.
- **Use the built-in filters** — `minRating`, `minPrice`, and `maxPrice` narrow the results before you are charged, so you spend nothing on sitters outside your range. Prefer them over filtering the export afterward.
- **Switch on the full profile when the rate has to be exact** — Rover's search listings quote a small number of sitters at their extended-booking rate rather than their standard nightly rate. `includeSitterDetails` confirms every `price` against the sitter's own published rates and returns each service they offer with its own rate in `services`.
- **Cap reviews on popular sitters** — top Star Sitters can carry hundreds of reviews. Keep `maxReviewsPerSitter` modest (the default 20 is the newest two pages) unless you specifically need the full history.
- **Match the service to the slug** — `serviceType` only applies to Search Locations; when you paste a URL, the service comes from the URL itself.
- **Mix locations freely** — combine several ZIPs and "City, ST" entries in one run. `maxResults` is the combined cap and it is shared evenly across your locations, so no single neighborhood swallows the whole run, and a sitter who appears in two of them is returned (and counted) only once.
- **Use city + state for accuracy** — "Austin, TX" resolves more reliably than a bare city name when the name is shared across states.

### Pricing

**From $2.20 per 1,000 sitters, plus from $0.40 per 1,000 reviews** — undercuts existing Rover scrapers while delivering full profiles and the actual review text they don't. You pay per sitter collected, and only pay the review rate when you switch reviews on. **No compute or time-based charges — you pay per sitter and per review, plus a small fixed per-run start fee.**

Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less. Reviews are off by default, so a run with reviews disabled is billed only at the sitter rate.

#### Per 1,000 sitters

| Sitters | No discount | Bronze | Silver | Gold |
|---------|-------------|--------|--------|------|
| 100 | $0.260 | $0.250 | $0.235 | $0.220 |
| 1,000 | $2.60 | $2.50 | $2.35 | $2.20 |
| 10,000 | $26.00 | $25.00 | $23.50 | $22.00 |
| 100,000 | $260.00 | $250.00 | $235.00 | $220.00 |

#### Per 1,000 reviews

| Reviews | No discount | Bronze | Silver | Gold |
|---------|-------------|--------|--------|------|
| 100 | $0.048 | $0.045 | $0.042 | $0.040 |
| 1,000 | $0.48 | $0.45 | $0.42 | $0.40 |
| 10,000 | $4.80 | $4.50 | $4.20 | $4.00 |
| 100,000 | $48.00 | $45.00 | $42.00 | $40.00 |

#### Example total cost

Realistic mixes at the Gold tier (higher discount tiers cost less and apply automatically in the Apify Console):

| Run | Sitters | Reviews | Gold total |
|-----|---------|---------|------------|
| Quick sitter sweep | 100 | 0 | $0.22 |
| Sitters + 20 reviews each | 100 | 2,000 | $1.02 |
| Deep market pull | 1,000 | 50,000 | $22.20 |
| Large lead list | 10,000 | 200,000 | $102.00 |

A "sitter" is one provider row; a "review" is one review row. Platform fees (storage, data transfer) depend on your Apify plan and are additional.

### Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

- **Zapier** / **Make** / **n8n** — Workflow automation
- **Google Sheets** — Direct spreadsheet export
- **Slack** / **Email** — Notifications on new results
- **Webhooks** — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
- **Apify API** — Full programmatic access

### Legal & Ethical Use

This actor is designed for legitimate pet-care market research, competitive analysis, and lead generation. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Rover's Terms of Service. Do not use extracted data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose, and handle any personal data (such as reviewer names) responsibly and in line with privacy regulations.

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Paste full Rover search URLs (e.g. a dog-boarding results page for a city). Any filters already in the URL are used as-is — the Search Filters below are ignored for URLs. Leave empty if you're searching by location instead.

## `searchLocations` (type: `array`):

Search by ZIP code or city and state, e.g. '10001' or 'Austin, TX'. Each location is searched using the Service Type filter below. No need to build URLs manually.

## `serviceType` (type: `string`):

Which pet-care service to search for. Only applies to Search Locations — when using URLs, the service comes from the URL itself.

## `minRating` (type: `integer`):

Only return sitters with at least this average star rating (1-5). Leave empty for no rating filter. Applies to Search Locations only.

## `minPrice` (type: `integer`):

Only return sitters whose base price is at least this amount (USD). Leave empty for no minimum. Applies to Search Locations only.

## `maxPrice` (type: `integer`):

Only return sitters whose base price is at most this amount (USD). Leave empty for no maximum. Applies to Search Locations only.

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of sitters to return across all URLs and locations combined. Set to 0 for unlimited (capped internally at 10,000 sitters as a safety limit). Tip: start with 10-50 to test, then increase.

## `includeSitterDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Fetch each sitter's full profile: bio, all services offered with their individual rates, response rate and time, years of experience, accepted pets, and photo gallery. Also confirms the sitter's price against the rates they publish themselves. Richer data, but slower. When off, only the search-result fields are returned.

## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`):

Also collect each sitter's reviews — review text, reviewer name, date, and star rating. Off by default because popular sitters can have hundreds of reviews, which adds time to each run.

## `maxReviewsPerSitter` (type: `integer`):

Maximum reviews to collect for each sitter when Include Reviews is on. Set to 0 to collect all available reviews. The newest reviews are collected first.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [],
  "searchLocations": [
    "10001"
  ],
  "serviceType": "overnight-boarding",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "includeSitterDetails": false,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviewsPerSitter": 20
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `sitters` (type: `string`):

Table of scraped sitters with name, service, price, rating and location.

## `reviews` (type: `string`):

Table of individual sitter reviews (author, date, rating, text).

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "startUrls": [],
    "searchLocations": [
        "10001"
    ],
    "serviceType": "overnight-boarding",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "includeSitterDetails": false,
    "includeReviews": false,
    "maxReviewsPerSitter": 20
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("solidcode/rover-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "startUrls": [],
    "searchLocations": ["10001"],
    "serviceType": "overnight-boarding",
    "maxResults": 100,
    "includeSitterDetails": False,
    "includeReviews": False,
    "maxReviewsPerSitter": 20,
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("solidcode/rover-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [],
  "searchLocations": [
    "10001"
  ],
  "serviceType": "overnight-boarding",
  "maxResults": 100,
  "includeSitterDetails": false,
  "includeReviews": false,
  "maxReviewsPerSitter": 20
}' |
apify call solidcode/rover-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,solidcode/rover-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/4yFQx9eLyqjty9WvN/builds/2Ha2JO814tNiasdPp/openapi.json