# Rated People Scraper — UK Trade Leads, Ratings & Reviews (`scrapersdelight/rated-people-scraper`) Actor

Scrape UK tradespeople from Rated People by trade and town: business name, rating, review count, reviews, service area, badges and profile URL.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapersdelight/rated-people-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Scrapers Delight](https://apify.com/scrapersdelight) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

$4.00 / 1,000 per trader returneds

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

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# README

## Rated People Scraper — UK Trade Leads, Ratings & Reviews

Scrape verified UK tradespeople from [Rated People](https://www.ratedpeople.com) by
**trade** and **town**. For every trader you get the business name, rating (out of 5),
review count, recent reviews, service-area polygon, badges, verification status and a
direct profile URL — a clean, structured B2B lead list Google Maps can't give you.

### What you get (one row per unique trader)

| Field | Notes |
|---|---|
| `companyName`, `profileStem`, `profileUrl`, `traderId` | Identity. `profileStem` is the stable dedupe key. |
| `averageRating`, `numberOfRatings`, `ratingOutOf` | Rating **normalized to a 0–5 scale**. |
| `companyDescription`, `avatarUrl`, `coverImageUrl`, `companyLogoUrl`, `workGalleryImages` | Marketing/profile assets. |
| `town`, `postcode`, `outcodes`, `serviceAreaPolygon` | Location + the trader's real service area (lat/lng polygon). |
| `trades`, `skills`, `badges`, `isVerified`, `isNewJoiner`, `isActive` | Category + trust signals. |
| `ratingsBreakdown`, `latestReview`, `reviews[]` | Full reviews: homeowner first name, out-code, rating, date, comment, skill. |
| `phone` | The trader's `maskedNumber`. **Often absent** — most profiles do not publish a number. |
| `searchTrade`, `searchLocation`, `enriched`, `scrapedAt` | Provenance. |

### Input

- **trades** — e.g. `Plumber`, `Electrician`, `Roofer`, `Bathroom Fitter`. Free text is
  normalized to Rated People's slug and validated against its trade list.
- **locations** *(optional)* — e.g. `London`, `Manchester`, `Birmingham`, or a path like
  `west-midlands/birmingham`. Combined with every trade (trades × locations). Leave empty
  to scrape each trade's nationwide top traders.
- **expandLocationTowns** — for each location, also scrape every sibling postal town Rated
  People lists (a big volume multiplier).
- **enrichProfiles** — open each profile for the full reviews, service area, badges and phone.
- **onlyWithPhone**, **maxItems**, **requestDelayMs**, **proxyConfiguration**.

### How it works / limits

- Rated People is a Cloudflare-fronted **Remix (SSR)** app. Each page embeds its full
  route data in a `window.__remixContext` blob, so this actor reads structured JSON — no
  browser, no DOM scraping. **Apify RESIDENTIAL, country GB proxy is required** (direct
  requests get a Cloudflare challenge); it is the default.
- **Each search page returns up to 20 traders** (measured hard cap — the site does not
  paginate these listings). Coverage therefore comes from **breadth**: run many trades ×
  many locations, and/or turn on *Expand to nearby towns*. `numberOfRatings`/`total` are
  the site's real, location-filtered figures.
- **Ratings are normalized to a 0–5 scale.** (Rated People's search cards use a 0–10 scale
  internally and its profiles a 0–5 scale; this actor emits a single 0–5 value.)
- **Phone is usually masked/absent** on Rated People — treat `phone` as a bonus field, not
  a guarantee.

### Legality

You are responsible for complying with Rated People's Terms of Service and applicable law.
Only ordinary public page loads are used — no login, no CAPTCHA solving, no anti-abuse
bypass. Trader records may contain **personal data** (sole-trader names, phone numbers,
review-author first names); handling it lawfully (e.g. UK GDPR) is your responsibility.

# Actor input Schema

## `trades` (type: `array`):

Trade categories to scrape, e.g. "Plumber", "Electrician", "Roofer", "Bathroom Fitter". Free text is normalized to Rated People's slug (e.g. Plumber -> plumbers) and validated against its trade list.

## `locations` (type: `array`):

Optional. UK towns or cities to scrape each trade in, e.g. "London", "Manchester", "Birmingham". Combined with every trade (trades x locations). You can also paste a Rated People location path, e.g. "west-midlands/birmingham". Leave empty to scrape each trade's nationwide top traders.

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

Optional: paste Rated People trade/location URLs directly, e.g. https://www.ratedpeople.com/local-plumbers/west-midlands/birmingham . Used in addition to trades x locations above.

## `expandLocationTowns` (type: `boolean`):

For each resolved location, also scrape every sibling postal town Rated People lists for it (e.g. all West Midlands towns near Birmingham). A big volume multiplier. Note: each town page returns up to 20 traders.

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

Stop after this many unique traders (0 = no limit). Each unique trader is charged once.

## `enrichProfiles` (type: `boolean`):

Open each trader's profile to add the full reviews list, service-area polygon, town/postcode, badges, verification status and (when published) a phone number. Slower but far richer. Turn off for fast rating-only lists.

## `onlyWithPhone` (type: `boolean`):

Drop any trader that does not publish a phone number. Note: most Rated People profiles mask the phone, so this will keep only a small subset. Requires 'Enrich from profile pages'.

## `requestDelayMs` (type: `integer`):

Politeness delay between page loads. Lower is faster but more likely to be rate-limited.

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

Rated People is behind Cloudflare and blocks direct (no-proxy) requests. Apify Proxy RESIDENTIAL, country GB is required and is the default.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "trades": [
    "Plumber",
    "Electrician"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "London",
    "Manchester"
  ],
  "startUrls": [],
  "expandLocationTowns": false,
  "maxItems": 25,
  "enrichProfiles": true,
  "onlyWithPhone": false,
  "requestDelayMs": 1500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "GB"
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `leads` (type: `string`):

One item per unique trader: name, rating (out of 5), review count, reviews, service area, badges and profile URL.

# 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 = {
    "trades": [
        "Plumber",
        "Electrician"
    ],
    "locations": [
        "London",
        "Manchester"
    ],
    "startUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 25,
    "requestDelayMs": 1500,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "GB"
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("scrapersdelight/rated-people-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 = {
    "trades": [
        "Plumber",
        "Electrician",
    ],
    "locations": [
        "London",
        "Manchester",
    ],
    "startUrls": [],
    "maxItems": 25,
    "requestDelayMs": 1500,
    "proxyConfiguration": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
        "apifyProxyCountry": "GB",
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("scrapersdelight/rated-people-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

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

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

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "trades": [
    "Plumber",
    "Electrician"
  ],
  "locations": [
    "London",
    "Manchester"
  ],
  "startUrls": [],
  "maxItems": 25,
  "requestDelayMs": 1500,
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ],
    "apifyProxyCountry": "GB"
  }
}' |
apify call scrapersdelight/rated-people-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapersdelight/rated-people-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/WqwvtdnEPsuXO5arZ/builds/wMXwKtwq0HywYI2uz/openapi.json