🐱 Cat Breeds Scraper

🚀 Export the global cat breed catalog in seconds. Pull 60 cat breeds with origin, temperament, life span, weight, intelligence, energy, hypoallergenic flags, health notes, and reference images. No API key, no registration, no manual research.

The Cat Breeds Scraper exports the complete cat breed catalog with rich, structured records on every recognized breed. Each record carries 41 fields including breed name, country of origin, temperament tags, life span, metric and imperial weights, alt names, breed group, 15 behavioral scores (affection, intelligence, energy, grooming, social needs, vocalization, child- and dog-friendliness), hypoallergenic and special-trait flags, reference image, and links to CFA, Vetstreet, VCA Hospitals, and Wikipedia.

Coverage spans 60 breeds from 30+ countries of origin with strong representation of natural, experimental, hairless, rex, and short-leg classifications. This Actor turns the catalog into a CSV, Excel, JSON, or XML download in minutes.

🎯 Target Audience	💡 Primary Use Cases
Pet-tech startups, veterinary platforms, adoption services, pet-insurance companies, content publishers, voice-assistant teams	Breed-compatibility tools, adoption matching, vet-clinic content, pet-insurance underwriting, education and trivia, content marketing

📋 What the Cat Breeds Scraper does

Three retrieval modes in a single run:

• 📚 List mode. Paginate through all 60 breeds in one pass.
• 🔍 Search mode. Look up breeds by partial name (e.g. Persian, Maine Coon).
• 🆔 By-ID mode. Fetch specific breeds by their canonical short IDs (e.g. abys, pers, sibe, mcoo, ragd).

Every record returns hero image, identification, origin, temperament, full description, life span, dual-unit weights, 15 behavioral scores on a 1-5 scale, binary trait flags, and reference links.

💡 Why it matters: breed metadata is scattered across club registries (CFA, TICA), encyclopedias, vet sites, and Wikipedia. Stitching them into a clean comparable schema is busywork. This Actor returns one normalized record per breed on demand.

📊 Data fields

Each record includes: adaptability, affectionLevel, altNames, cfaUrl, childFriendly, countryCode, description, dogFriendly, energyLevel, experimental, grooming, hairless, healthIssues, hypoallergenic, id, imageUrl, indoor, intelligence, lap, lifeSpan, name, natural, origin, rare, referenceImageId, rex, scrapedAt, sheddingLevel, shortLegs, socialNeeds, strangerFriendly, suppressedTail, temperament, vcahospitalsUrl, vetstreetUrl, vocalisation, weightImperial, weightMetric, wikipediaUrl. These field names come straight from the actor's dataset schema, so what you see here is what lands in your dataset.

🚀 How to use

1. 📝 Sign up. Create a free account with $5 credit (takes 2 minutes).
2. 🌐 Open the Actor. Go to the Cat Breeds Scraper page on the Apify Store.
3. 🎯 Set input. Pick a mode (list, search, or by ID) and set maxItems.
4. 🚀 Run it. Click Start and the Actor collects the breed records.
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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⚠️ Disclaimer: this Actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by TheCatAPI, CFA, Vetstreet, VCA Hospitals, or Wikipedia. All trademarks mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Only publicly available breed catalog data is collected.

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