DogTrekker Dog-Friendly Places Scraper

Scrape DogTrekker.com's directory of 9,600+ dog-friendly hotels, restaurants, parks, dog parks, beaches, wineries, campgrounds and pet services — mostly across California, with additional listings in Nevada. Search by keyword, browse by category / region / state / city, or fetch a specific listing by ID or URL slug. HTTP-only via the site's public WordPress REST API and listing pages. No auth, no login, no proxy required.

What this actor does

• Six modes: search, byCategory, byRegion, byState, byCity, byId
• 44 place categories: lodging, restaurants, dog parks, hikes, wineries, beaches, veterinarians, boarding, groomers, and more
• 22 California travel regions + 12 US states as filter axes
• Combinable filters — e.g. category=wineries + region=wine-country returns only wineries in Wine Country
• Rich per-listing detail — street address, city/county/region, phone, official website, GPS coordinates, and photo, pulled from each listing's structured data
• Empty fields are omitted — every record only contains what DogTrekker actually published for that place

Output per place

• id, slug, url — DogTrekker listing ID and canonical URL
• title, description
• categories[] — e.g. ["Dog Parks", "Hikes Parks"]
• city, county, regions[], state
• placeType — schema.org type (LodgingBusiness, Restaurant, Park, Hotel, etc.)
• streetAddress, addressLocality, addressRegion, postalCode, addressCountry
• phone, website — official site of the business (not DogTrekker)
• latitude, longitude
• imageUrl
• publishedAt
• recordType: "place", scrapedAt

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
mode	select	search	search / byCategory / byRegion / byState / byCity / byId
searchQuery	string	dog park	Free-text keyword (mode=search)
category	select	–	One of 44 categories. Required for byCategory, optional filter otherwise
region	select	–	One of 22 CA travel regions. Required for byRegion, optional filter otherwise
state	select	–	One of 12 US states. Required for byState, optional filter otherwise
cityName	string	–	City name, e.g. Napa (mode=byCity)
listingIds	array	–	Post IDs or URL slugs, e.g. 187700 or brookdale-lodge (mode=byId)
sortBy	select	relevance	relevance / newest / oldest / title
fetchFullDetails	boolean	true	Visit each listing page for address/phone/GPS/website. Disable for a faster listing-only pass
maxItems	int	20	Hard cap on emitted records (1–500)

Example: search by keyword

{
  "mode": "search",
  "searchQuery": "pet friendly hotel",
  "maxItems": 30
}

Example: browse wineries in Wine Country

{
  "mode": "byCategory",
  "category": "wineries",
  "region": "wine-country",
  "sortBy": "title",
  "maxItems": 50
}

Example: dog parks in a specific city

{
  "mode": "byCity",
  "cityName": "San Francisco",
  "category": "dog-parks",
  "maxItems": 25
}

Example: lookup specific listings

{
  "mode": "byId",
  "listingIds": ["brookdale-lodge", "187700"]
}

Use cases

• Travel planning apps — surface pet-friendly hotels, restaurants and parks along a route
• Real-estate / relocation tools — show nearby dog amenities for a neighborhood
• Pet product marketing — find local businesses to partner with by region
• Local SEO / directory aggregation — enrich a pet-travel content site
• Trip itinerary builders — chain dog parks, wineries, and lodging in one region

FAQ

What's DogTrekker? A long-running (since 2003) dog-travel guide focused primarily on California, with a directory of thousands of pet-friendly businesses and places, each with an address, phone number, and category tags. See dogtrekker.com.

Does this cover other US states? The vast majority of listings are in California; a smaller set of Nevada listings also has real data. Other states in the state filter currently return no results because DogTrekker hasn't tagged listings there yet.

Why do some records lack latitude/longitude or phone? Not every DogTrekker listing publishes structured GPS/phone data (e.g. some chain hotels). Those fields are simply omitted rather than filled with placeholders.

What's the difference between city/county and regions? city and county are administrative boundaries; regions[] are DogTrekker's curated California travel regions (e.g. "Wine Country", "Lake Tahoe") and a listing can belong to more than one.

Can I combine filters? Yes — category, region, and state can all be supplied together regardless of mode; the primary mode filter is always applied, and the others narrow the result set further.

How fresh is the data? Listings are added/updated regularly by the DogTrekker editorial team; the actor always reads live from the site.