Checkatrade Tradespeople Scraper

Scrape public Checkatrade directory pages and return structured UK tradesperson listings for local-market research, supplier prospecting, contractor discovery, and AI-agent workflows.

What it returns

Field	Meaning
businessName	Public tradesperson or company name
profileUrl	Public Checkatrade profile URL
rating, reviewCount	Rating and review count shown on the listing
services	Services and skills shown on the card
phone	Phone number only when publicly revealed on the profile
address	Public locality/service-area text when available
description	Public profile description when available
sourceUrl, scrapedAt	Provenance and extraction timestamp

Input

startUrls accepts public Checkatrade directory or near-me URLs. The default is a public plumbers near-me page. Use the page for the trade you need, for example a public electrician or roofer near-me page, or pass a direct directory URL discovered from Checkatrade.

postcode is optional. When a page exposes a postcode/location input, the actor fills it before collecting cards. maxResults defaults to 25 and is capped at 100. Set scrapeProfiles to false for a faster listing-only run; leave it enabled to visit public profile pages for phone, address, and description fields. proxyCountry defaults to GB in the UI and can be blank to use the default Apify proxy pool.

Example input:

{
  "startUrls": [{"url": "https://www.checkatrade.com/blog/plumbers-near-me/"}],
  "postcode": "SW1A 1AA",
  "maxResults": 25,
  "scrapeProfiles": true,
  "proxyCountry": "GB"
}

Output example

{
  "businessName": "Example Plumbing & Heating",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.checkatrade.com/trades/example",
  "rating": 10,
  "reviewCount": 178,
  "services": ["Plumber", "General Plumbing"],
  "phone": null,
  "address": "London",
  "description": null,
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.checkatrade.com/blog/plumbers-near-me/",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-07-16T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Reliability and scope

This actor uses a rendered Playwright browser because Checkatrade may return a Cloudflare challenge to plain HTTP clients. It throttles navigation, uses the Apify proxy pool, deduplicates profile URLs, and writes a diagnostic dataset item when a page fails or is blocked. Empty valid results are successful; a block is not silently represented as an empty directory.

Only publicly visible information is collected. The actor does not log in, bypass access controls, submit quotes, reveal phone numbers hidden behind a user interaction, or collect private customer data. Follow Checkatrade's terms, robots guidance, and applicable UK privacy and data-protection law before using the output for outreach.

Pricing

Pay-per-event billing is configured at $0.005 per returned listing, plus a $0.00005 actor-start event. Blocked or failed profile requests are recorded diagnostically and are not treated as successful listings.

AI-agent use

Use this actor when an agent needs a bounded list of public Checkatrade tradespeople for a UK trade/location. It is not a quote-booking, review-writing, customer-lead form submission, or private member-directory tool. Results are stable JSON records suitable for CRM enrichment and downstream filtering.