Thumbtack Scraper — Local Service Pros, Ratings & Reviews

Thumbtack Scraper extracts local service providers from public Thumbtack pages: business name, star rating, review count, hires, Top Pro badge, and service area — and, optionally, full pro profiles with customer reviews, credentials, business hours, payment methods, and specialties. Search by service and city, or paste Thumbtack URLs directly. Pay only per delivered result.

Think of it as the unofficial Thumbtack API: Thumbtack publishes no public API, so this Actor is the practical alternative — a structured, pay-per-result feed of public Thumbtack data for markets, profiles, and reviews, on demand as JSON, CSV, Excel, or over HTTP.

Built for per-market competitive snapshots, pro-profile enrichment, and review monitoring — the jobs this data actually supports (see honest limits below).

What data does the Thumbtack Scraper extract?

Listing rows (fast, cheapest — one per pro):

Field	Example
businessName	Mendoza Cleaning pros
rating / reviewCount / reviewQualifier	4.6 / 237 / "Very good"
hires	334
badge	Top Pro
serviceArea	Houston, TX
avgResponseTimeHours	0.2
priceText	$189 (when the pro shows one)
highlightedReview	"My house is nice and clean…"
profileUrl	canonical profile link

Full profile rows (turn on Full profiles) add:

Field	Example
reviews (up to 5, as displayed)	text, star rating, date, "Hired on Thumbtack" flag, job details, pro's reply
reviewHistogram	1–5★ percentage breakdown
yearsInBusiness / employees	13 / 4
backgroundChecked	true
credentials	Background Check — holder name as displayed
businessHours / paymentMethods	per-day hours / "Cash, Venmo, and Zelle"
specialties	Cleaning type: Standard, Deep cleaning…
faqs, mediaCount, city, state, zip	…

How do I scrape Thumbtack?

1. Enter one or more services ("house cleaning", "handyman") and locations ("Cincinnati, OH").
2. Or paste Thumbtack URLs — search pages or pro profile links.
3. Toggle Full profiles if you want reviews and credentials.
4. Run. Results land in the dataset (tables: Pros and Full profiles), exportable as JSON, CSV, or Excel, or via the API.

Each unique pro is delivered and charged once per run, even when they serve several of your locations.

Honest limits (read before buying)

• ~6 pros per city page. Thumbtack's public pages embed about six pros per service+city. To go deeper in a metro, add nearby suburbs as extra locations — the Actor dedupes pros that appear in several. This Actor does not fake volume it can't deliver.
• Up to 5 reviews per pro — the ones Thumbtack shows on the public profile page. Full review history is not publicly served.
• No phone numbers, emails, or street addresses. Thumbtack does not publish pro contact details; any Thumbtack scraper claiming emails is guessing. You get the pro's profile link, city/state/ZIP, and everything above.
• Data comes from public Thumbtack pages, as displayed — reviewer names stay in Thumbtack's own shortened form ("Joy A."), never enriched.
• backgroundChecked reflects the badge Thumbtack displays. It is not a consumer report and must not be used for employment, credit, insurance, or housing decisions.

Why these results are reliable

The Actor reads Thumbtack's own structured page data (not brittle CSS selectors), tolerates missing fields (brand-new pros without reviews still come through), fails loudly instead of silently returning junk when the site changes, and charges only for delivered results — a failed run costs nothing.

FAQ

Is scraping Thumbtack legal? This Actor accesses only public pages and extracts only publicly displayed information — no login, no personal contact data, no bypassing of access controls. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws and Thumbtack's terms. To have a record removed from your datasets, delete it and exclude the pro from future runs.

Can I get more than 6 pros per city? Yes — add more locations (suburbs, neighboring cities). A metro list of 8–10 locations typically yields 30–50 unique pros per service.

Does it work for any Thumbtack service? Yes — ~2,850 service categories are recognized by name; anything Thumbtack has a page for.

Is there an official Thumbtack API? No — Thumbtack does not offer a public API. This Actor is the practical unofficial Thumbtack API: it turns public Thumbtack pages into structured JSON/CSV you can query on demand, pay-per-result, with no subscription.

Can AI agents run this? Yes. The Actor works through Apify's MCP server — ask your agent to find "Thumbtack scraper" and call it with a service and city. It is also x402-payable, so an autonomous agent can discover, pay for, and run it with no Apify account.

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