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🐕 PetFinder Pet Listings Scraper

🐕 PetFinder Pet Listings Scraper

easyapi/petfinder-pet-listings-scraper
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Extract detailed information about adoptable pets from PetFinder.com. Get comprehensive data including pet details, photos, location coordinates, and organization information. Perfect for pet adoption research, market analysis, and animal welfare studies. 🐕 🐈

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Extract detailed information about adoptable pets from PetFinder.com, including dogs, cats, and other animals available for adoption.

🎯 Use Cases

  • Monitor pet adoption listings in specific locations
  • Analyze pet adoption trends and availability
  • Track shelter and rescue organization activities
  • Research breed availability and distribution
  • Gather data for animal welfare studies

✨ Features

  • 🔍 Scrape pet listings from custom search URLs
  • 📍 Get detailed location data including coordinates
  • 🏷️ Extract comprehensive pet information (breed, age, size, etc.)
  • 📸 Collect pet photos and media links
  • 🏢 Gather organization and shelter contact details
  • ⚡ Fast and efficient pagination handling
  • 🛡️ Built-in proxy rotation support

💎 Output Data

Each record contains:

  • Pet basic information (ID, name, type, status)
  • Detailed breed information
  • Age, sex, and size details
  • Publication date
  • Organization/shelter information
  • Location data with coordinates
  • Photo URLs
  • Contact information

🔧 Input Parameters

  • searchUrls: Array of PetFinder search URLs to scrape
  • maxItems: Maximum number of items to scrape (optional)
  • proxyConfiguration: Proxy settings (optional)

📝 Notes

  • Respects PetFinder.com's robots.txt and terms of service
  • Includes built-in delays to prevent overloading the site
  • Handles pagination automatically
  • Supports proxy configuration for better reliability

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "searchUrls": [
3        "https://www.petfinder.com/search/dogs-for-adoption/us/ca/los-angeles/?distance=Anywhere&page=2&size%5B0%5D=Large"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 70
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "searchUrl": "https://www.petfinder.com/search/dogs-for-adoption/us/ca/los-angeles/?distance=Anywhere&page=2&size%5B0%5D=Large",
4        "petId": 75181194,
5        "url": "https://www.petfinder.com/dog/rocky-75181194/ca/los-angeles/city-of-los-angeles-north-central-animal-shelter-ca763/",
6        "type": "Dog",
7        "breed": {
8            "primary": "Pit Bull Terrier",
9            "isMixed": false,
10            "label": "Pit Bull Terrier"
11        },
12        "basicInfo": {
13            "name": "ROCKY",
14            "age": "Young",
15            "sex": "Male",
16            "size": "Large",
17            "status": "adoptable",
18            "publishedAt": "2025-02-14T08:28:30+00:00",
19            "organizationId": "A2183062"
20        },
21        "photos": {
22            "primary": "https://dl5zpyw5k3jeb.cloudfront.net/photos/pets/75181194/1/?bust=1740057824",
23            "all": [
24                "https://dl5zpyw5k3jeb.cloudfront.net/photos/pets/75181194/1/?bust=1740057824"
25            ]
26        },
27        "location": {
28            "address": "3201 Lacy Street",
29            "city": "Los Angeles",
30            "state": "CA",
31            "postalCode": "90031",
32            "coordinates": {
33                "latitude": 34.0835506,
34                "longitude": -118.2188081
35            }
36        },
37        "organization": {
38            "name": "City of Los Angeles North Central Animal Shelter",
39            "displayId": "CA763",
40            "contact": "(888) 452-7381"
41        }
42    },
43    ...
44]