Care.com Scraper — Caregiver, Nanny & Senior Care Lead Data

Extract structured caregiver and provider profiles from care.com by service type and US city for caregiver lead generation, nanny and babysitter recruitment, and senior care market research — hourly rates, ratings, experience, bios, and CareCheck background-check badges, at $0.004 per profile.

Main Use Cases

• Home care & senior care agency lead generation — collect every listed senior-care aide, companion or housekeeper in a target metro to build direct outreach lists.
• Nanny & babysitter recruitment databases — pull nannies and babysitters by city with experience years, availability and rates for childcare staffing firms.
• Caregiver rate benchmarking & market pricing — compare advertised hourly rate ranges and ratings across metros to price services competitively.
• Caregiver market research — analyze caregiver supply, review counts, and background-check coverage by location for agencies, franchises and insurers.
• Trust-signal filtering & candidate shortlisting — combine the CareCheck badge, review counts and hire counts to shortlist established providers.
• Pet care, housekeeping & tutoring provider lists — cover every care.com directory, not just childcare.

How It Works

The actor crawls care.com's paginated directory pages (e.g. /babysitters/austin-tx, /senior-care/austin-tx) with a plain-HTTP Cheerio crawler. Care.com's SEO pages are server-rendered Next.js pages that embed their complete search results in a #__NEXT_DATA__ JSON blob, so every profile field is parsed directly from that payload — no browser, no login, no GraphQL tokens. Set a service type and locations (or paste direct result-page URLs) and a maxItems cap, and the actor returns one structured record per caregiver.

Build Caregiver Databases Without an Official Care.com API

Care.com does not publish a public developer API for its provider directory — and it routes all contact through its own platform. This actor fills that gap by scraping the publicly listed directory data and delivering it as structured JSON, CSV or Excel that you can load into a CRM, spreadsheet or database. Because it runs on Apify, you can also pull the data programmatically via the Apify API, schedule weekly or monthly runs to track caregiver supply and rates over time, and pipe results into webhooks, Zapier or Make for automated lead routing.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
startUrls	array	No	—	Direct care.com directory result-page URLs (e.g. https://www.care.com/babysitters/austin-tx or ...-page2). When provided, serviceType/location are ignored. The actor keeps paginating from each URL until maxItems is reached.
serviceType	string	No	babysitters	Care.com service directory: babysitters, nannies, senior-care, child-care, housekeepers, housekeeping, pet-care, dog-walkers, after-school-babysitters, and other directory slugs.
location	string	No	austin-tx	City-state slug (austin-tx) or "City, ST" (e.g. "Austin, TX"). Separate multiple locations with commas to scrape several metros in one run.
maxItems	integer	No	100	Maximum total caregiver profiles to return. 0 = scrape everything available on the directory pages.
proxy	object	No	off	Standard Apify proxy picker. Keep off for small runs; enable if you hit rate limiting at high volume.

Free-plan users are capped at 20 profiles per run; paying users get the full requested amount.

Output

Each dataset item is one caregiver/profile record. Example:

{
    "name": "Chelsea W.",
    "serviceType": "babysitters",
    "hourlyRateFrom": 20,
    "hourlyRateTo": 25,
    "currency": "USD",
    "rating": 5,
    "reviewCount": 11,
    "experienceYears": 8,
    "availability": null,
    "city": "Austin",
    "state": "TX",
    "bioTitle": "Reliable Babysitter Available Weekends",
    "bio": "Kind and caring babysitter with 8 years of experience...",
    "backgroundCheck": true,
    "servicesOffered": ["mealPreparation", "lightHousekeeping", "transportation"],
    "age": 29,
    "isPremium": true,
    "hiredTimes": 3,
    "latestReviewRating": 5,
    "latestReviewComment": "Our kids absolutely love...",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.care.com/p/chelseaw82/cc",
    "imageUrl": "https://www.care.com/s/d/aws/photo/...",
    "sourceUrl": "https://www.care.com/babysitters/austin-tx"
}

Field reference

Field	Type	Description
name	string	Provider display name
serviceType	string	Care.com service directory the profile was found in
hourlyRateFrom / hourlyRateTo / currency	number / string	Advertised hourly rate range and currency
rating / reviewCount	number	Average star rating and review count
experienceYears / availability	number / string	Years of experience and availability (when published)
city / state	string	Provider location
bioTitle / bio	string	Profile headline and full bio text
backgroundCheck	boolean	true when the CareCheck background-check badge is present
servicesOffered	string[]	Enabled service flags (e.g. mealPreparation)
age / isPremium / hiredTimes / imageUrl	mixed	Extra profile signals
latestReviewRating / latestReviewComment	number / string	Most recent review snippet
profileUrl / sourceUrl	string	Link to the full profile and the directory page it was found on

Example Input

{
    "serviceType": "senior-care",
    "location": "austin-tx, dallas-tx, houston-tx",
    "maxItems": 300
}

Or with direct directory URLs to preserve exact filters:

{
    "startUrls": [
        { "url": "https://www.care.com/babysitters/austin-tx" },
        { "url": "https://www.care.com/babysitters/austin-tx-page2" }
    ],
    "maxItems": 100
}

Integrations & Automation

• Apify API — run the actor and fetch datasets programmatically from any application.
• Webhooks / Zapier / Make — push new caregiver records into your CRM or outreach pipeline as soon as a run finishes.
• Scheduling — schedule weekly or monthly runs to track caregiver supply, rates and ratings per metro over time (recurring runs also improve Apify Store recommendation for this actor).

Related Actors

• Care.com Scraper — Babysitters, Nannies & Caregivers — the other large care.com provider-data actor in the Store.
• Care.com Scraper (crawlerbros) — caregiver listings plus profile-page extraction.
• Caring.com Senior Living Scraper — assisted-living and senior-care facility data for the same care cluster.
• Zocdoc Scraper — doctor/physician directory data for the broader healthcare-lead space.
• Care.com Scraper — Caregivers & Provider Leads (ScrapeSage) — care business leads with addresses.

FAQ

Why use this actor instead of an official Care.com API?

There is no public Care.com API for provider directory data — Care.com keeps caregiver contact behind its own platform and has no publicly documented developer API for listings. This actor reads the publicly listed directory pages and returns everything that is visible on them (rates, ratings, experience, bios, badges) as structured, downloadable data.

What are alternatives to this actor?

• Other Apify actors for care.com (see Related Actors above).
• Caring.com-based scrapers for senior-living facility data (assisted living, memory care, nursing homes).
• Directly browsing care.com (no export, no scale, no monitoring).

How can I build a nanny or babysitter database for my city?

Pass the service type (nannies or babysitters) plus your city-state slug as location, set maxItems, and run once. Export the dataset as CSV/Excel and load it into your CRM. Schedule monthly re-runs to keep the database fresh as new providers join.

How do I find background-checked caregivers for lead generation?

The backgroundCheck field is true exactly when care.com shows the provider's CareCheck badge. Filter the dataset on that field (plus reviewCount and rating) downstream to shortlist verified, established providers.

How much does it cost to scrape care.com?

This is a lightweight Cheerio (plain-HTTP) crawler at 256 MB — roughly the cheapest Apify compute tier. Pricing is per result ($0.004 per caregiver profile on the free tier) plus a negligible start event; a 100-profile run typically finishes in under a minute. Free-plan users get 20 profiles per run as a preview.

Why are some output fields null?

Providers choose what to publish — availability is often unset and some profiles hide rates. null means "not published on the page", not an error.

How does this actor get around care.com's blocking?

It doesn't bypass anything protected: the directory pages are server-rendered, publicly accessible SEO pages that embed their data in a #__NEXT_DATA__ JSON blob. The actor parses that blob with plain HTTP — no browser, no login, no CAPTCHA solving, low concurrency with crawl-delay-friendly pacing.

SEO Keywords

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For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Purpose: Returns one JSON record per caregiver/profile found on care.com for a given service directory and US city, including hourly rate range, rating, experience, bio and background-check flag.

Minimal input:

{ "serviceType": "babysitters", "location": "austin-tx", "maxItems": 20 }

Variant input (direct directory URLs override service/location):

{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.care.com/nannies/austin-tx" }], "maxItems": 20 }

Output fields: name, serviceType, hourlyRateFrom, hourlyRateTo, currency, rating, reviewCount, experienceYears, availability, city, state, bioTitle, bio, backgroundCheck, servicesOffered, age, isPremium, hiredTimes, latestReviewRating, latestReviewComment, profileUrl, imageUrl, sourceUrl.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• If startUrls is provided, serviceType and location are ignored — the actor paginates from the given URLs.
• maxItems: 0 means "scrape everything available" on the directory — set an explicit cap to bound cost.
• Free-plan runs are capped at 20 profiles regardless of maxItems.
• backgroundCheck: true indicates the CareCheck badge is present on the page (use for lead filtering).
• Output is pay-per-result: $0.004 per profile (free tier), plus a small start event.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Care.com®. It accesses only publicly available care.com directory pages — it does not bypass login walls, solve CAPTCHAs, or access non-public data, and it does not extract contact details that Care.com hides behind its platform. Users are responsible for complying with care.com's Terms of Use and applicable data-protection laws (e.g., GDPR/CCPA where relevant), and for how they use the provider data obtained. This summary is not legal advice.