Care.com Scraper | Caregivers, Day Care & Jobs

Care.com scraper (also searched as Care.com API, nanny scraper, babysitter scraper, daycare scraper) for public Care.com US pages — city caregiver lists, day-care businesses, jobs, and About/contact. Export names, ZIP/street, Twilio/tel: phones, and support emails to CSV, Excel, or JSON. Guest HTML only.

This Actor is built for no-code operators first: pick a vertical, enter a city-st slug (for example denver-co), set maxResults, click Start, and download the Dataset. Developers can call the same Actor from the Apify API, Make, n8n, Zapier, LangChain, or a scheduled task.

maxResults is the most caregiver, business, or job rows for each detail URL, or for the selected location when no URL list is supplied. The default is 50 (this Actor's schema maximum). All row types count together, and the whole run stops at your maximum total charge. Free Apify plan users can collect up to 200 rows per run for 10 runs.

Thin Apify Actor + managed worker. The worker owns residential egress. You do not send cookies, Join/Apply POSTs, or proxyUrl. This Actor does not hit /search (that path is 404) and does not turn a homepage ZIP into enrollment.

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What does the Care.com Scraper do?

The Care.com Scraper collects guest-visible listings and contact fields that a logged-out visitor can already see on www.care.com.

Give it a vertical + location (city-st slug), or a live /p/ /b/l/ /job/ URL. The Actor:

1. Validates the input (searchType, vertical, location)
2. Calls a managed worker that fetches Care.com GSSP HTML / JSON-LD
3. Parses opened surfaces into Dataset rows (name, phones, emails, address, person/org)
4. Optionally enriches caregiver /p/ (ZIP) and business /b/l/ (tel: + street)
5. Dedupes and caps output with maxResults / maxPages
6. Writes INPUT_ECHO, RUN_SUMMARY, and (on failure) ERROR_SUMMARY to the key-value store

Opened surfaces (what actually works)

Mode (searchType)	What you scrape	Required input
listings	City SEO list /{vertical}/{city-st}	vertical + location (denver-co). Pagination is -pageN, not ?page=
caregiver	Profile /p/{username}/{code}	detailUrls or username + verticalCode. Phones gated (Join to contact)
business	Day-care /b/l/{slug}/{city-st}	detailUrls or businessSlug + location. tel: + JSON-LD street
jobs	Jobs hub (/jobs, /babysitting-jobs, …)	Optional vertical. City is IP-pinned
job	Job detail /job/{vertical}/{st}/{city}/{id}-{slug}	detailUrls. Poster is anonymous
about	Homepage JSON-LD + privacy + press + HomePay	None. HQ phone, support/press emails, Dallas street; HomePay Austin
all-states	/{vertical}/all-states hub — emits seed rows (kind=seed with nextInput)	vertical. Each row is one state's taxonomy link; use nextInput as the input of a follow-up all-cities call
all-cities	/{vertical}/all-cities/{st} hub — emits seed rows for each city in the state	vertical + state (or city-st; state is taken from the slug). Each row's nextInput feeds a listings call
all-services	/all-services/{city-st} hub — emits seed rows for long-tail listings	location city-st or two-letter state

Opened people verticals: babysitters, nannies, housekeepers, tutors, senior-care, pet-sitters, overnight-babysitters, special-needs. Opened business: day-care, preschools, nanny-agencies, family-day-care, child-care-centers (list cards often carry Twilio phone + street).

enrichDetails defaults on. Brand-only /b/{slug} URLs (no /b/l/) are skipped — those 404.

Honest limits (read this before you buy a competitor)

• No /search and no ZIP search. https://www.care.com/search is 404. Homepage ZIP starts enrollment, not a query. Use city-st slugs (miami-fl, seattle-wa).
• No Join / Apply / LeadGen / GraphQL POST. Guest GSSP + HTML/JSON-LD only.
• Caregiver phones and emails are gated. Rows still include ZIP + leadAbsences (闸门锁 / Join to contact). Do not expect a guest tel: on /p/ pages.
• Day-care and About do expose phones + street on guest pages. Those are the lead-complete surfaces.
• UK / CA / AU locale shells (/en-gb/, /en-ca/, /en-au/) measured 0 public /p/ cards (London). Not care.co.uk / care.ca / care.com.au.
• Jobs posters are anonymous. No phone; ZIP may appear in the title.
• Filter Apply does not change the URL. Pagination is path -pageN.

Other Store Actors may add review text, CPR flags, or rate ranges. This one is the lead-complete Care.com option: facility tel: + street, caregiver ZIP, About/HomePay contacts, jobs hubs, and state/city taxonomy follow — at $3.00 / 1,000 results with developer-paid platform usage.

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What Care.com data can I extract?

Field	Example / notes
name / person.name	Caregiver display name or business name
kind	caregiver, business, job, company, all-states, all-cities, all-services, about, homepay, seed
rowType	Same value as kind (fleet row-contract field name). On navigation kinds (all-states, all-cities, all-services, about, homepay, seed) the row is a seed/navigation row, not an entity
entityId	Stable dedupe key from the worker's dedup_key: caregiver → graphqlMemberId, provider → providerId, job → jobDetailURL. Use this, not the multi-shape id
type	Alias of kind (dataset_schema name). business ≡ provider: the GraphQL layer calls them provider, the row surface keeps business
url	Live https://www.care.com/... link
phones	Authoritative phone list {value, type} — type=lead is the real business number (leadPhone), type=tracking is Twilio (twilioPhone), type=landline is a JSON-LD tel: fallback. Empty + leadAbsences on caregivers
leadPhone / twilioPhone	Business-row convenience mirrors of phones[] entries — same value, kept for back-compat. Treat phones[] as the single source
emails	{ value, type } — support@ / press@ / privacy@ / info@myhomepay.com on About
address	{ street, unit, locality, region, postalCode, country, full } — ZIP on /p/; street on day-care + privacy + HomePay
org	Business / Care.com / HomePay
leadSource / leadReveal / leadAbsences	How the contact was (or was not) obtained
seedKind (seed rows only)	listing / all-cities / all-states / all-services — the taxonomy class of the link this seed points at
nextInput (seed rows only)	Ready-made {searchType, vertical, location} for the follow-up call — paste this as the next run's input; no URL re-parsing needed

You do not get: unlocked caregiver mobile numbers behind Join, GraphQL private fields, or login sessions.

Output example (caregiver — phones gated, ZIP present)

{
  "kind": "caregiver",
  "name": "Ana O.",
  "url": "https://www.care.com/p/...",
  "phones": [],
  "emails": [],
  "address": { "postalCode": "80227", "locality": "Denver", "region": "CO" },
  "person": { "name": "Ana O." },
  "leadAbsences": {
    "phones": "闸门锁（Join to contact；DOM 无 show-phone / reveal XHR）",
    "emails": "闸门锁（guest 档案无 mailto）"
  }
}

Day-care list cards include Twilio numbers and street on the same guest HTML.

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Why scrape Care.com?

Care.com is the large US marketplace for in-home care (child, senior, pet, housekeeping) and local day-care businesses. Use this Actor when you need a spreadsheet of public profiles and facility contacts without paging the site by hand.

Common jobs:

• Babysitter / nanny lists — city SEO lists with display name + ZIP after enrich
• Day-care lead gen — facility phones and street addresses (day-care, preschools, nanny-agencies)
• Housekeeper / tutor / senior-care / pet-sitter catalogs by city-st slug
• Care.com HQ / support / press / HomePay contacts from About
• Public job posts (anonymous posters; ZIP often in the title)
• Automation — feed CRM, staffing ops, or an AI agent via CSV / JSON / the Apify Dataset API

Why not a Care.com “search” Actor? There is no public /search. ZIP on the homepage is enrollment. This Actor uses the real SEO URLs Care.com publishes.

How this Care.com scraper compares

Store search for “Care.com scraper” also surfaces people-only crawlers (ratings, reviews, CPR flags) at about $10 / 1,000 or pay-per-usage. This one is the lead-field Care.com scraper.

	This Actor	Typical Store peers
Babysitters / nannies / housekeepers / tutors	Yes	Yes
Day-care / preschools / nanny agencies	Yes — Twilio + street	Usually no
Caregiver guest phone	Gated (leadAbsences)	Usually no phone
About / HomePay contacts	Yes (877, 888, Dallas + Austin street)	Usually no
Jobs hubs	Yes	Rare
State / city taxonomy follow	all-states / all-cities / all-services	Rare
Reviews / CPR / rate tables	No	Some peers
Price (FREE / BRONZE)	$3.00 / 1,000 + $0.005 start	About $10 / 1,000 or CU

Use a peer when you need review text. Use this Actor when you want ZIP, street, and facility phones you can export today.

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Pricing

Pay per event. You pay for Actor start + each result written to the default dataset. Platform compute / memory for this Actor is paid by the developer (User pays platform usage costs = No).

Event	Price
Actor Start (apify-actor-start)	$0.005 per start (per GB of memory, minimum one event)
result (apify-default-dataset-item)	$3.00 / 1,000 on FREE & BRONZE ($0.003 each)

How much does it cost to scrape Care.com? (FREE / BRONZE, one start at 1024 MB)

Results	Event charges (approx.)
100	$0.005 + $0.30 = $0.305
1,000	$0.005 + $3.00 = $3.005
10,000	$0.005 + $30.00 = $30.005

Store volume tiers (per result)

Tier	$/1,000	per result
FREE	$3.00	$0.003
BRONZE	$3.00	$0.003
SILVER	$2.60	$0.0026
GOLD	$2.20	$0.0022
PLATINUM	$2.00	$0.002
DIAMOND	$1.60	$0.0016

Default memory is 1024 MB. Actor Start is charged per GB (minimum one event). Keep maxResults at 2–15 while you test a city.

Empty / failed runs that write zero default-dataset rows are not billed as results (you still pay Actor Start).

Free Apify-plan users: this Actor caps 10 runs and 200 results per run (developer limit, not Apify).

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More Actors like this

Use a specialized Actor when one exists for your site — structured fields, better coverage, usually lower cost. Use Care.com Scraper for US babysitters, nannies, housekeepers, tutors, day-care businesses, jobs, and About contacts. Use the general tools below when you need email/phone checks or a generic protected-page scrape.

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• Email Risk Validator
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Prefer a dedicated site scraper?

If your target has a specialized Actor below, use that first — usually cheaper and more structured than a generic URL scrape.

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How to scrape Care.com (no code required)

1. Open Care.com Scraper in Apify Console (Actor lentic_clockss/care-scraper).
2. Set Search type — start with listings (or about / jobs / all-services).
3. Pick a vertical (babysitters, nannies, day-care, housekeepers, …).
4. Enter a city-st location (seattle-wa, miami-fl). Not a ZIP. Not a keyword.
5. Keep enrichDetails on if you need ZIP on people or tel: on /b/l/.
6. Set maxResults to 3–15 for a first run.
7. Click Start. When the run finishes, open the Dataset tab.
8. Download CSV, Excel, or JSON.

For About contacts (including HomePay), set searchType=about. For jobs, searchType=jobs. For state/city directories, all-states / all-cities / all-services.

Example: scrape Care.com babysitters in a US city

{
  "searchType": "listings",
  "vertical": "babysitters",
  "location": "seattle-wa",
  "enrichDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 5
}

Example: scrape Care.com day-care phones and streets

{
  "searchType": "listings",
  "vertical": "day-care",
  "location": "houston-tx",
  "enrichDetails": true,
  "maxResults": 5
}

Example: Care.com About / HomePay contacts

{
  "searchType": "about",
  "maxResults": 5
}

Empty {} is a valid run (schema default: housekeepers in chicago-il) so the Actor SUCCEEDED without required fields.

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Connect to your tools

Use this Actor from your existing stack:

Platform	How to connect
Make.com	Search "Apify" → "Run Actor" → Actor ID: lentic_clockss/care-scraper
n8n	Add Apify node → "Run Actor" → same Actor ID
Zapier	Apify integration → "Run Actor"
LangChain	ApifyActorsTool("lentic_clockss/care-scraper")
Python / Node.js	Apify SDK or direct HTTPS call

API call example

curl "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/lentic_clockss~care-scraper/runs" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"searchType":"listings","vertical":"nannies","location":"denver-co","enrichDetails":true,"maxResults":5}'

Read results from the Dataset API:

GET https://api.apify.com/v2/datasets/{datasetId}/items?format=json

You can also schedule the Actor from Console.

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Coverage matrix

Market / host	Search	Category	Detail	Entity / contact	Overlay	Gate	Lead (phone / email / address)	Status
us www.care.com	/search 404	/{vertical}/{city-st} verified	/p/ ZIP verified	/b/l/ + privacy / press / HomePay verified	Filter does not change URL	Join to contact	People phones gated; facility phone + street verified	Open
babysitters / nannies / tutors / housekeepers / senior-care / pet-sitters / overnight-babysitters / special-needs	—	Verified cards	Verified	—	—	Guest cards	Name + city; ZIP on profile	Open
day-care / preschools / nanny-agencies / family-day-care / child-care-centers	—	Verified cards	—	List often has street + Twilio; /b/{brand} skip	-pageN	Phone not gated	Phone + street verified	Open
all-states / all-cities / all-services	Not search	Verified hubs	Follow city lists	Same as people / facilities	Fetch cap	—	Same leads after follow	Open
jobs	/jobs IP-pinned city	babysitting-jobs / tutoring-jobs	/job/...	Anonymous poster	—	Join to apply	No phone on site; ZIP in title	Open
/en-gb/ /en-ca/ /en-au/	—	London 0 cards	No /p/	—	—	Shell	Unverified people cards	Unverified
Map / login POST / betreut.de	None / POST forbidden / other product

Empty cells = unverified.

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Input reference

Field	Notes
searchType	Default listings. Empty {} is a valid run. Opened: listings, caregiver, business, job, jobs, about, all-states, all-cities, all-services
vertical	Default housekeepers. People + day-care + all-services
location	City-st slug, two-letter state, or all-states. Not a ZIP
enrichDetails	Default true
maxResults	Rows per detail URL or selected location. Default and cap 50; Console prefill 3
maxPages	Default 1. Path -pageN, hard cap 10
detailUrls	Optional live /p/, /b/l/, /job/ URLs
workerBaseUrl	HTTPS override only. Production uses Actor env

Do not send proxyUrl. The worker provides residential egress (WORKER_PROVIDES_PROXY=1).

Full output schema is on the Dataset tab. Key-value store: INPUT_ECHO, RUN_SUMMARY, ERROR_SUMMARY.

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FAQ

How do I scrape Care.com without a keyword search? Use searchType=listings plus a vertical and a city-st slug. Care.com has no public /search.

Do I get caregiver phone numbers? Not on guest /p/ pages. Those rows include ZIP and leadAbsences (Join to contact). Facility pages (day-care, /b/l/) and About/HomePay do expose tel: / Twilio numbers.

Is scraping Care.com legal? You are responsible for how you use the data. This Actor only collects public guest-visible HTML/JSON-LD, does not log in, and does not POST Join/Apply. Follow Care.com Terms and your own compliance review. Unofficial — not affiliated with Care.com, Inc.

Do I need to bring proxies? No. Do not send proxyUrl.

Why did day-care in one city list another city? Jobs and some provider lists are IP-geo pinned. The rows are still live Care.com facilities with phones + street.

Can I use it from Make, n8n, Zapier, or LangChain? Yes. Actor ID lentic_clockss/care-scraper. See Connect to your tools.

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Changelog

0.1.2

• Store README (SEO headings, competitor comparison, How to scrape Care.com, pricing, More Actors, Related Actors)
• PPE: Actor Start $0.005 + result $3.00/1k with volume tiers; platform usage paid by developer

0.1.1

• Opened extra US verticals (preschools, nanny-agencies, special-needs, overnight-babysitters, family-day-care, child-care-centers)
• Taxonomy hubs: all-states / all-cities / all-services (follow city lists; fetch cap)
• About includes HomePay (888 / Austin street)

0.1

• Thin Actor + Cloud Run worker for Care.com US guest pages
• Opened: city lists, /p/ ZIP enrich, day-care Twilio + street, jobs hub, About contacts
• Explicit leadAbsences when caregiver phones/emails are gated