# Caring.com Scraper - Senior Living & Care Directory (`lulzasaur/caring-scraper`) Actor

Scrape senior living communities and care providers from Caring.com — assisted living, memory care, nursing homes, home care & more. Get names, addresses, phone, ratings, reviews, starting prices, and geo coordinates by city. Ideal for senior care lead gen and market research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/lulzasaur/caring-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [lulz bot](https://apify.com/lulzasaur) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## Caring.com Scraper — Senior Living & Care Directory

Extract senior living communities and care providers from **Caring.com**, one of the largest senior care directories in the US (~32,000 communities, 400K+ reviews).

### What it does

Search any US city for senior care providers and get structured JSON with:

- **Name, full address, city, state, county, ZIP**
- **Geo coordinates** (latitude/longitude)
- **Phone number**
- **Average rating and review count**
- **Starting price** (monthly, USD — where listed)
- **Description and latest review snippet**
- **Care types offered** at each community
- **Photo URLs** (up to 5 per provider)
- Verified / enhanced-listing flags

### Supported care types

| Care Type | Slug |
|-----------|------|
| Assisted Living | `assisted-living` |
| Independent Living | `independent-living` |
| Memory Care | `memory-care-facilities` |
| Nursing Homes | `nursing-homes` |
| CCRC | `continuing-care-retirement-communities` |
| Adult Day Care | `adult-day-care` |
| Home Health Agencies | `home-health-agencies` |
| In-Home Care | `in-home-care` |
| Hospice | `hospices` |

### Input

```json
{
    "careType": "assisted-living",
    "locations": ["california/los-angeles", "Phoenix, AZ"],
    "maxResultsPerLocation": 100,
    "excludeNearbyResults": false,
    "includeImages": true
}
```

- **locations** — accepts `state/city` slugs (`"california/los-angeles"`) or `"City, ST"` (`"Los Angeles, CA"`)
- **maxResultsPerLocation** — cap per location; `0` = all available
- **excludeNearbyResults** — only strict city matches, drop nearby-area fill results

### Output example

```json
{
    "name": "Sunrise of Beverly Hills",
    "careType": "assisted-living",
    "url": "https://www.caring.com/senior-living/california/beverly-hills/sunrise-of-beverly-hills-90210",
    "address": "201 N Crescent Dr, Beverly Hills, CA 90210",
    "city": "beverly-hills",
    "state": "california",
    "zipCode": "90210",
    "latitude": 34.0736,
    "longitude": -118.4004,
    "phoneNumber": "3102898834",
    "averageRating": 4.5,
    "reviewCount": 42,
    "startingPriceUsd": 7000,
    "isVerified": true,
    "careTypes": ["assisted-living", "memory-care-facilities"]
}
```

### Use cases

- **Senior care lead generation** — build prospect lists of communities by metro area
- **Market research** — pricing, ratings, and density analysis for senior living markets
- **Real estate development** — identify underserved markets by comparing supply and ratings
- **Insurance & healthcare networks** — build and verify provider directories
- **Competitive analysis** — track ratings, reviews, and pricing across operators

### Why this scraper

- Uses Caring.com's fast internal search index — no browser rendering, quick runs
- Clean, normalized JSON output with geo coordinates included
- Handles pagination automatically with per-location caps
- Deduplicates providers across overlapping location searches

# Actor input Schema

## `careType` (type: `string`):

Type of senior care to search for.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Cities to scrape. Accepts 'state/city' slugs ('california/los-angeles') or 'City, ST' format ('Los Angeles, CA').

## `maxResultsPerLocation` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of providers to scrape per location. Set to 0 for unlimited.

## `excludeNearbyResults` (type: `boolean`):

If enabled, only returns providers strictly within the searched city (excludes nearby-area results Caring.com adds to fill out searches).

## `includeImages` (type: `boolean`):

Include up to 5 photo URLs per provider.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "careType": "assisted-living",
  "locations": [
    "california/los-angeles",
    "Phoenix, AZ"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerLocation": 100,
  "excludeNearbyResults": false,
  "includeImages": true
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "careType": "assisted-living",
    "locations": [
        "california/los-angeles",
        "Phoenix, AZ"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("lulzasaur/caring-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {
    "careType": "assisted-living",
    "locations": [
        "california/los-angeles",
        "Phoenix, AZ",
    ],
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("lulzasaur/caring-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "careType": "assisted-living",
  "locations": [
    "california/los-angeles",
    "Phoenix, AZ"
  ]
}' |
apify call lulzasaur/caring-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,lulzasaur/caring-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/HKdZdqM9G4aCA38AO/builds/FkusTuNWXCTvucLwb/openapi.json