# Care.com Listings Scraper (`piotrv1001/care-com-listings-scraper`) Actor

The Care.com Listings Scraper extracts caregiver listings from Care.com directories — babysitters, nannies, senior care, pet care, housekeepers, and tutors — capturing names, locations, hourly rates, years of experience and more — ideal for caregiver recruitment and market research.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/piotrv1001/care-com-listings-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [FalconScrape](https://apify.com/piotrv1001) (community)
- **Categories:** Jobs, Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $5.00 / 1,000 caregiver listings

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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In Batch mode, an Actor accepts a well-defined JSON input, performs an action which can take anything from a few seconds to a few hours,
and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

## How to integrate an Actor?

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You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready.
The best way to integrate Actors is as follows.

In JavaScript/TypeScript projects, use official [JavaScript/TypeScript client](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js.md):

```bash
npm install apify-client
```

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```bash
pip install apify-client
```

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````bash
# MacOS / Linux
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# Windows
irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex
```bash

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### 🧑‍🍼 Care.com Listings Scraper

Easily extract **caregiver listings and full profiles from Care.com** — the largest US marketplace for babysitters, nannies, senior care, pet care, housekeepers, and tutors. The **Care.com Listings Scraper** turns any Care.com search or city page into clean, structured data for recruitment, market research, and competitive analysis.

Run it on the [Apify platform](https://apify.com) to get API access, scheduling, integrations (Make, Zapier, Google Sheets), automatic proxy rotation, and run monitoring out of the box.

### ✨ Features

-   👶 **All caregiver categories** – Babysitters, nannies, senior care, pet care, housekeepers, and tutors.
-   🏷️ **Rich listing data** – Names, photos, city/state, age, years of experience, ratings, number of reviews, hourly rates, background-check status, bios, qualifications, and supported services.
-   🔎 **Optional deep profiles** – Toggle on full-profile enrichment to also collect education, languages, weekly availability, multi-dimensional ratings, all reviews, and service details.
-   🗺️ **Flexible inputs** – Start from caregiver listing pages, "all cities" index pages (to sweep an entire state), or individual profile URLs.
-   📄 **Automatic pagination** – Follows result pages until your `maxItems` budget is reached.
-   ♻️ **Built-in de-duplication** – Caregivers appearing across overlapping city pages are collected only once.

### 🛠️ How It Works

1. **Add start URLs** – Paste one or more Care.com URLs (e.g. `https://www.care.com/babysitters/new-york-ny`).
2. **Set your limit** – Choose `maxItems`, the number of caregivers to collect.
3. **(Optional) Enable full profiles** – Turn on **Scrape full profile details** for the richest output.
4. **Run the scraper** – Start the run and download structured results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or HTML.

### 📥 Input

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| **Start URLs** | Care.com listing pages, "all cities" pages, or caregiver profile pages. |
| **Max items** | Maximum number of caregiver records to collect (default `50`). |
| **Scrape full profile details** | Visit each caregiver's profile page for extra data such as education, languages, availability, and all reviews (default `off`). |
| **Proxy configuration** | Proxy settings used while scraping (Apify Proxy recommended). |

### 📊 Sample Output Data

The scraper provides structured JSON output. Example (listing mode):

```json
[
    {
        "publicId": "zoriab18",
        "caregiverId": "29394350",
        "profileUrl": "https://www.care.com/p/zoriab18/cc",
        "displayName": "Zoria B.",
        "age": 25,
        "city": "New York",
        "state": "NY",
        "imageUrl": "https://www.care.com/s/d/aws/photo/135X135/4/46088504_mU6GUahfQO699njDb6HgWC2okA73uT00",
        "isPremium": false,
        "yearsOfExperience": 7,
        "avgReviewRating": 4.71,
        "numberOfReviews": 14,
        "hiredTimes": 22,
        "hasCareCheck": true,
        "bioTitle": "You Will Not Regret Hiring Me As Your Babysitter!",
        "hourlyRateFrom": 30,
        "hourlyRateTo": 30,
        "currency": "USD",
        "qualities": [],
        "supportedServices": ["carpooling", "mealPreparation", "lightHousekeeping"],
        "reviews": [
            { "rating": 5, "comment": "Very reliable and flexible. Perfect babysitter!", "reviewer": "Franca Z." }
        ]
    }
]
````

With **Scrape full profile details** enabled, each record additionally includes `languages`, `educationDegrees`, `badges`, `backgroundChecks`, `serviceIds`, `ageGroups`, `recurringAvailability`, multi-dimensional `ratings`, and the full `reviews` history.

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

### 🧾 Output Fields

| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| `displayName` | Caregiver's display name (first name + last initial). |
| `city`, `state` | Caregiver location. |
| `yearsOfExperience` | Years of caregiving experience. |
| `avgReviewRating` | Average review rating. |
| `numberOfReviews` | Total number of reviews. |
| `hourlyRateFrom` / `hourlyRateTo` | Hourly rate range and `currency`. |
| `hasCareCheck` | Whether a background check has been completed. |
| `bioTitle` / `bioSummary` | Caregiver's headline and free-text bio. |
| `qualities` | Certifications (CPR, first aid, special-needs care, etc.). |
| `supportedServices` | Extra services offered (meal prep, errands, housekeeping, etc.). |
| `profileUrl` / `imageUrl` | Links to the profile and photo. |
| `reviews` | Reviews left for the caregiver. |
| `educationDegrees`, `languages`, `recurringAvailability`, `ratings` | Available when full profile details are enabled. |

### 💰 How Much Does It Cost to Scrape Care.com?

This Actor uses a **pay-per-result** pricing model, so you only pay for the data you collect:

| Event | Price (USD) |
|---|---|
| Actor start | $0.01 |
| Caregiver listing record | $0.005 |
| Full caregiver profile | $0.02 |

Listing mode keeps discovery cheap, while the optional full-profile tier reflects the much richer data it returns. For example, collecting **1,000 caregiver listings** costs about **$5**.

### ⚡ Tips

- Use a **city listing URL** (e.g. `https://www.care.com/babysitters/new-york-ny`) and the scraper will paginate automatically until it hits `maxItems`.
- Use an **"all cities" URL** (e.g. `https://www.care.com/babysitters/all-cities/ny`) to sweep an entire state.
- Keep **Scrape full profile details** off when you only need rates, ratings, and experience — it's faster and cheaper.
- Raise `maxItems` gradually to control cost on large areas.

### ❓ FAQ

**Is scraping Care.com legal?**
This Actor only collects publicly available data. You are responsible for how you use the collected data and for complying with Care.com's Terms of Service and applicable laws (including data-protection regulations such as GDPR and CCPA).

**Can it return phone numbers or email addresses?**
No. Direct contact details are gated behind a paid Care.com membership and are not publicly available, so they cannot be collected. This Actor is built for caregiver **discovery and market intelligence** (rates, experience, ratings, availability, qualifications).

**Which categories are supported?**
Babysitters, nannies, senior care, pet care, housekeepers, and tutors — anything reachable via Care.com's public city and category pages.

### 🛟 Support

Found an issue or need a custom solution? Open an issue on the Actor's **Issues** tab and we'll take a look.

Start collecting Care.com caregiver data with the **Care.com Listings Scraper** today! 🚀

# Actor input Schema

## `startUrls` (type: `array`):

Care.com pages to scrape. Supported pages: caregiver listing pages (e.g. https://www.care.com/babysitters/new-york-ny), 'all cities' index pages (e.g. https://www.care.com/babysitters/all-cities/ny), and individual caregiver profile pages (e.g. https://www.care.com/p/zoriab18/cc).

## `maxItems` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of caregiver records to collect across all start URLs.

## `scrapeProfileDetails` (type: `boolean`):

Visit each caregiver's profile page to collect extra details such as education, languages, full availability schedule, multi-dimensional ratings and all reviews. This makes more requests and runs slower.

## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`):

Proxy settings used while scraping. Apify Proxy is recommended for reliable IP rotation.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.care.com/babysitters/new-york-ny"
    }
  ],
  "maxItems": 50,
  "scrapeProfileDetails": false,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": 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 = {
    "startUrls": [
        {
            "url": "https://www.care.com/babysitters/new-york-ny"
        }
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("piotrv1001/care-com-listings-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 = { "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.care.com/babysitters/new-york-ny" }] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("piotrv1001/care-com-listings-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "startUrls": [
    {
      "url": "https://www.care.com/babysitters/new-york-ny"
    }
  ]
}' |
apify call piotrv1001/care-com-listings-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "command": "npx",
            "args": [
                "mcp-remote",
                "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=piotrv1001/care-com-listings-scraper",
                "--header",
                "Authorization: Bearer <YOUR_API_TOKEN>"
            ]
        }
    }
}

```

## OpenAPI specification

```json
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    "openapi": "3.0.1",
    "info": {
        "title": "Care.com Listings Scraper",
        "description": "The Care.com Listings Scraper extracts caregiver listings from Care.com directories — babysitters, nannies, senior care, pet care, housekeepers, and tutors — capturing names, locations, hourly rates, years of experience and more — ideal for caregiver recruitment and market research.",
        "version": "0.0",
        "x-build-id": "asdG5M93xbb4dnN1P"
    },
    "servers": [
        {
            "url": "https://api.apify.com/v2"
        }
    ],
    "paths": {
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            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-get-dataset-items-piotrv1001-care-com-listings-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for its completion, and returns Actor's dataset items in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/piotrv1001~care-com-listings-scraper/runs": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "runs-sync-piotrv1001-care-com-listings-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor and returns information about the initiated run in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
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                "parameters": [
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                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
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                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
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                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
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                ],
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                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK",
                        "content": {
                            "application/json": {
                                "schema": {
                                    "$ref": "#/components/schemas/runsResponseSchema"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        },
        "/acts/piotrv1001~care-com-listings-scraper/run-sync": {
            "post": {
                "operationId": "run-sync-piotrv1001-care-com-listings-scraper",
                "x-openai-isConsequential": false,
                "summary": "Executes an Actor, waits for completion, and returns the OUTPUT from Key-value store in response.",
                "tags": [
                    "Run Actor"
                ],
                "requestBody": {
                    "required": true,
                    "content": {
                        "application/json": {
                            "schema": {
                                "$ref": "#/components/schemas/inputSchema"
                            }
                        }
                    }
                },
                "parameters": [
                    {
                        "name": "token",
                        "in": "query",
                        "required": true,
                        "schema": {
                            "type": "string"
                        },
                        "description": "Enter your Apify token here"
                    }
                ],
                "responses": {
                    "200": {
                        "description": "OK"
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    },
    "components": {
        "schemas": {
            "inputSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "required": [
                    "startUrls"
                ],
                "properties": {
                    "startUrls": {
                        "title": "Start URLs",
                        "type": "array",
                        "description": "Care.com pages to scrape. Supported pages: caregiver listing pages (e.g. https://www.care.com/babysitters/new-york-ny), 'all cities' index pages (e.g. https://www.care.com/babysitters/all-cities/ny), and individual caregiver profile pages (e.g. https://www.care.com/p/zoriab18/cc).",
                        "items": {
                            "type": "object",
                            "required": [
                                "url"
                            ],
                            "properties": {
                                "url": {
                                    "type": "string",
                                    "title": "URL of a web page",
                                    "format": "uri"
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    },
                    "maxItems": {
                        "title": "Max items",
                        "minimum": 1,
                        "type": "integer",
                        "description": "Maximum number of caregiver records to collect across all start URLs.",
                        "default": 50
                    },
                    "scrapeProfileDetails": {
                        "title": "Scrape full profile details",
                        "type": "boolean",
                        "description": "Visit each caregiver's profile page to collect extra details such as education, languages, full availability schedule, multi-dimensional ratings and all reviews. This makes more requests and runs slower.",
                        "default": false
                    },
                    "proxyConfiguration": {
                        "title": "Proxy configuration",
                        "type": "object",
                        "description": "Proxy settings used while scraping. Apify Proxy is recommended for reliable IP rotation.",
                        "default": {
                            "useApifyProxy": true
                        }
                    }
                }
            },
            "runsResponseSchema": {
                "type": "object",
                "properties": {
                    "data": {
                        "type": "object",
                        "properties": {
                            "id": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "actId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "userId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "startedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "finishedAt": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "format": "date-time",
                                "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z"
                            },
                            "status": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "READY"
                            },
                            "meta": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "origin": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "API"
                                    },
                                    "userAgent": {
                                        "type": "string"
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "stats": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "inputBodyLen": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2000
                                    },
                                    "rebootCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "restartCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "resurrectCount": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "computeUnits": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "options": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "build": {
                                        "type": "string",
                                        "example": "latest"
                                    },
                                    "timeoutSecs": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 300
                                    },
                                    "memoryMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1024
                                    },
                                    "diskMbytes": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 2048
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "buildId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultKeyValueStoreId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultDatasetId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "defaultRequestQueueId": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "buildNumber": {
                                "type": "string",
                                "example": "1.0.0"
                            },
                            "containerUrl": {
                                "type": "string"
                            },
                            "usage": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 1
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            },
                            "usageTotalUsd": {
                                "type": "number",
                                "example": 0.00005
                            },
                            "usageUsd": {
                                "type": "object",
                                "properties": {
                                    "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATASET_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "number",
                                        "example": 0.00005
                                    },
                                    "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    },
                                    "PROXY_SERPS": {
                                        "type": "integer",
                                        "example": 0
                                    }
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}
```