🅿️ ParkMe Parking Scraper

🚀 Collect real-time parking garage rates, amenities, GPS coordinates, review scores, and operator details from any city or custom map area. Calculate costs for any duration and entry time.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-04-17

Parking rates change constantly and vary by time of day, duration, and location. This Actor scrapes the ParkMe database to return structured records with calculated costs, full rate cards, GPS coordinates, addresses, amenities (EV charging, valet, covered), payment types, operating hours, review scores, occupancy percentages, and operator details. Search by city name or define a custom bounding box with exact GPS coordinates.

Parking comparison platforms, fleet managers, real estate analysts, travel app developers, and urban planners all need current parking market data. Instead of manually checking dozens of lot pages, you enter a city or bounding box, specify your parking duration and entry time, and get a structured dataset with 30+ fields per lot in minutes.

Target	ParkMe parking lot database
Use Cases	Parking rate comparison, fleet management, urban planning, real estate analysis, travel apps

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📋 What it does

• 💰 Calculated costs. Get the exact price for your specified parking duration and entry time at every lot.
• 📊 Full rate cards. Tiered pricing with hourly, daily, and monthly rates for each facility.
• 📍 GPS and addresses. Latitude, longitude, street address, and building address for every parking lot.
• 🚗 Capacity and occupancy. Total spaces, handicap spaces, and current occupancy percentages.
• ⭐ Reviews and amenities. Review scores, review counts, amenities (EV charging, valet, covered), and payment types.

Each record includes the calculated rate, GPS coordinates, lot name, address, rate card, currency, phone number, operator, amenities, payment types, total spaces, handicap spaces, occupancy, review score, review count, operating hours, lot type, and scrape timestamp.

💡 Why it matters: Parking rates shift by the hour. Manually comparing prices across dozens of garages and surface lots in a city wastes hours. This Actor collects current pricing for any area in minutes, ready for spreadsheets or your parking app.

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🎬 Full Demo

🚧 Coming soon: a 3-minute walkthrough showing how to go from sign-up to a downloaded dataset.

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⚙️ Input

Input	Type	Default	Behavior
city	string	"New York, NY"	City to search (e.g., "San Francisco, CA", "Chicago, IL"). Ignored if bounding box is provided.
bbox	string	-	Custom map area in swLat|swLng|neLat|neLng format. Overrides city input.
maxItems	integer	10	Maximum parking lots to return. Free users limited to 10. Paid users up to 1,000,000.
duration	integer	60	Parking duration in minutes (1-1440) for rate calculation.
entryTime	string	"2026-03-01T09:00"	Arrival time in YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM format. Leave empty for current rates.
rateRequest	string	"R"	Rate type: R (Regular), B (Best Available), or L (Monthly).

Example: One-hour parking in Manhattan.

{
    "city": "New York, NY",
    "maxItems": 50,
    "duration": 60,
    "rateRequest": "R"
}

Example: Best available rates in a specific area.

{
    "bbox": "40.748|-74.002|40.758|-73.985",
    "maxItems": 20,
    "duration": 120,
    "entryTime": "2026-03-01T09:00",
    "rateRequest": "B"
}

⚠️ Good to Know: When using a bounding box, the city field is ignored. Duration defaults to 60 minutes if not specified. Rates reflect live pricing at the time of your run and may vary by day, time, and season.

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📊 Output

Each record contains 30+ fields. Download as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

🧾 Schema

Field	Type	Example
💰 calculatedRate	number	21.15
📍 latitude	number	40.7542
📍 longitude	number	-73.9885
🏷️ name	string	"450 W 38th St Garage"
🌍 address	string	"450 West 38th Street, New York, NY 10018"
📋 rateCard	array	["1 Hour: $21.15", "2 Hours: $38.50", "Daily: $85.00"]
👤 operator	string	"Parkwhiz"
🚗 spacesTotal	number	450
⭐ reviewScore	number	4.5
📊 reviewCount	number	327
⏰ hours	string	"24 hours"
🏗️ lotType	string	"garage"
🎯 amenities	array	["EV Charging", "Valet Parking", "Covered"]
🎯 paymentTypes	array	["Credit Card", "Mobile Payment", "Cash"]
💵 currency	string	"USD"

📦 Sample records

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✨ Why choose this Actor

	Capability
💰	Calculated costs. Get exact pricing for your specified duration and entry time.
🗺️	Flexible search. Search by city name or define a custom GPS bounding box.
📊	30+ fields per lot. Rates, amenities, hours, reviews, payment types, and capacity.
💵	Three rate types. Regular, best available, and monthly parking rates.
⏰	Custom timing. Specify any parking duration (1 min to 24 hours) and entry time.
⭐	Reviews and occupancy. Customer ratings and current occupancy data included.
⚡	No proxy needed. Direct data access keeps costs low.

In major US cities, parking can cost $20-80 per hour, and rates vary dramatically between lots just blocks apart. Real-time pricing data is essential for comparison platforms and fleet management.

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📈 How it compares to alternatives

Approach	Cost	Coverage	Refresh	Setup
⭐ ParkMe Parking Scraper (this Actor)	$5 free credit, then pay-per-use	Major US cities	Live per run	⚡ 2 min
Manual lot-by-lot checking	Free	Limited by time	Real-time (slow)	🕐 Hours
Official parking APIs	Varies	Single operator	Per request	🔧 2-4 hours
Third-party parking data providers	$500+/mo	Multi-city	Daily/weekly	📋 Onboarding

Pick this Actor when you need real-time, multi-lot parking rate data for any city without building custom integrations with individual parking operators.

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🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the ParkMe Parking Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Enter a city or bounding box, set parking duration and rate type.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and let the Actor collect your data.
5. 📥 Download. Grab your results in the Dataset tab as CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML.

⏱️ Total time from signup to downloaded dataset: 3-5 minutes. No coding required.

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💼 Business use cases

📊 Parking Operators Monitor competitor rates across cities Adjust pricing strategy based on market data Track seasonal rate fluctuations Benchmark amenities and review scores	🚗 Fleet Management Collect rates for multiple office locations Negotiate corporate parking agreements Compare lot amenities for employee needs Track monthly parking cost trends
🏢 Real Estate Analysis Compare parking costs near commercial properties Factor parking availability into investment decisions Study parking density in development areas Track rate trends in target neighborhoods	🌍 Travel and Mobility Integrate parking data into travel booking platforms Build parking cost calculators for trip planning Power parking comparison features in mobility apps Create city parking guides with current pricing

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🌟 Beyond business use cases

Data like this powers more than commercial workflows. The same structured records support research, education, civic projects, and personal initiatives.

🎓 Research and academia Empirical datasets for papers, thesis work, and coursework Longitudinal studies tracking changes across snapshots Reproducible research with cited, versioned data pulls Classroom exercises on data analysis and ethical scraping	🎨 Personal and creative Side projects, portfolio demos, and indie app launches Data visualizations, dashboards, and infographics Content research for bloggers, YouTubers, and podcasters Hobbyist collections and personal trackers
🤝 Non-profit and civic Transparency reporting and accountability projects Advocacy campaigns backed by public-interest data Community-run databases for local issues Investigative journalism on public records	🧪 Experimentation Prototype AI and machine-learning pipelines with real data Validate product-market hypotheses before engineering spend Train small domain-specific models on niche corpora Test dashboard concepts with live input

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions

💳 Do I need a paid Apify plan to run this actor?

No. You can start right now on the free Apify plan, which includes $5 in free monthly credit. That is enough to run this actor several times and explore the output before committing to anything. Paid plans unlock higher limits, more concurrent runs, and larger datasets. Create a free Apify account here to get started.

🚨 What happens if my run fails or returns no results?

Failed runs are not charged. If the source site changes, proxies get rate-limited, or a specific input matches nothing, re-run the actor or open our contact form and we will investigate. You can also check the run log in the Apify console to see why the run stopped.

📏 How many items can I scrape per run?

Free users are limited to 10 items per run so you can preview the output and confirm the actor works for your use case. Paid users can raise maxItems up to 1,000,000 per run. Upgrade here if you need full scale.

🕒 How fresh is the data?

Every run fetches live data at the moment of execution. There is no cache or delay: the records you get reflect what the source returned at that moment. Schedule the actor to maintain a rolling snapshot of the data you need.

🧑‍💻 Can I call this actor from my own code?

Yes. Apify exposes every actor as a REST endpoint and ships first-class SDKs for Node.js and Python. You can start a run, read the dataset, and handle webhooks from your own app in a few lines. All you need is your Apify API token.

📤 How do I export the data?

Every Apify dataset can be downloaded in one click from the console as CSV, JSON, JSONL, Excel, HTML, XML, or RSS. You can also pull results programmatically via the Apify API or stream them into BigQuery, S3, and other destinations through built-in integrations.

📅 Can I schedule the actor to run automatically?

Yes. Use the Apify scheduler to run the actor on any cadence, from hourly to monthly. Results are saved to your dataset and can be delivered to webhooks, email, Slack, cloud storage, or automation tools such as Zapier and Make.

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🔌 Automating ParkMe Parking Scraper

Control the scraper programmatically for scheduled runs and pipeline integrations:

• 🟢 Node.js. Install the apify-client NPM package.
• 🐍 Python. Use the apify-client PyPI package.
• 📚 See the Apify API documentation for full details.

The Apify Schedules feature lets you trigger this Actor on any cron interval. Run it daily to track parking rate changes and build a pricing history for your target markets.

🔌 Integrate with any app

ParkMe Parking Scraper connects to any cloud service via Apify integrations:

• Make - Automate multi-step workflows
• Zapier - Connect with 5,000+ apps
• Slack - Get run notifications
• Airbyte - Pipe data into your warehouse
• GitHub - Trigger runs from commits
• Google Drive - Export datasets straight to Sheets

You can also use webhooks to trigger downstream actions when a run finishes.

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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by ParkMe or any of its subsidiaries. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available data is collected.