TrustedHousesitters Scraper

What does TrustedHousesitters Scraper do?

TrustedHousesitters Scraper is a powerful tool that extracts available house-sitting opportunities from TrustedHousesitters.com. It allows you to search for house sits by location and date, providing detailed information about each listing including pets, amenities, host details, and assignment dates.

This Actor helps you monitor and analyze the house-sitting market without the need to manually browse through hundreds of listings. Perfect for travelers, digital nomads, and data analysts looking to understand trends in the house-sitting space.

Why use TrustedHousesitters Scraper?

• Save Time: Automatically discover all available house sits in your desired location without manual searching.
• Get Detailed Data: Extract comprehensive information about each listing including pets, housing details, amenities, and responsibilities.
• Make Informed Decisions: Analyze the house-sitting market to find the best opportunities based on your preferences.
• Monitor Availability: Track new listings as they appear for your target destinations.
• Automate Your Search: Set up recurring runs to stay updated on the latest opportunities.

Use Cases

For Digital Nomads and Travelers

• Find ideal house-sitting opportunities in specific cities or regions for your travel plans.
• Set up automated alerts for new listings in your target destinations.
• Compare multiple locations simultaneously to decide where to travel next.

Included features

• Apify SDK for Python - a toolkit for building Apify Actors and scrapers in Python
• Input schema - define and easily validate a schema for your Actor's input
• Request queue - queues into which you can put the URLs you want to scrape
• Dataset - store structured data where each object stored has the same attributes
• HTTPX - library for making asynchronous HTTP requests in Python
• Beautiful Soup - library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files

How it works

TrustedHousesitters Scraper

Overview

TrustedHousesitters Scraper is a robust Apify Actor that automatically collects available house-sitting listings from TrustedHousesitters.com based on your location and date preferences. This tool is ideal for digital nomads, travelers, data analysts, and anyone who wants to monitor, analyze, or automate house-sitting opportunity discovery.

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What to Input

To use the TrustedHousesitters Scraper, just specify the location you are interested in.

• countrySlug: The country you want to search (e.g., united-states, canada).
• admin1Slug: The state or province slug (e.g., florida, california). (optional)
• citySlug: The city slug (e.g., miami). (optional)

All of them besided countrySlug are optional

You can find all supported locations here: https://www.trustedhousesitters.com/sitemap/house-sits/

Also find the .json file with all supported countries: https://apify-uploads-prod.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/CzBPbrI8f6j9xc0NG-issue-MXTEQYz5kDOqd0l1D-wIU1Vj0gZc-country_lisst.json

Other fields (such as date, results per page, and whether to fetch full details) are optional.

Example: Minimum Required Input

{
  "countrySlug": "austria",
}

• example

{
  "countrySlug": "united-states",
  "admin1Slug": "florida",
  "citySlug": "miami",
  "dateFrom": "2025-07-01",
  "fetchDetails": false
}

dateFrom (optional): Search for sits starting from this date (YYYY-MM-DD). resultsPerPage (optional): Number of results to fetch per page (default is 12, max is 50). fetchDetails (optional): Whether to fetch detailed listing info (default is true). Set to false for faster, summary-only results.

How to Use on Apify

1. Run via Apify Console Go to the Actor page: Find the TrustedHousesitters Scraper Actor on Apify Store or your Apify Console. Create a new Task: Click Create a new task to set up your run. Fill in the Input: Enter your location and any options in the Input section—use the examples above. Start the Actor: Click Run. Get your data: Download structured results (JSON, CSV, Excel) from the Actor’s dataset in Apify Console.

2. Run via API You can run the Actor programmatically with a simple POST request:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/YOUR_USERNAME~trustedhousesitters-scraper/runs?token=YOUR_API_TOKEN" \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{
    "countrySlug": "united-states",
  }'