🔧 YourMechanic Scraper — Mobile Mechanic Profiles, Ratings & Service Areas

Export the US mobile-mechanic network from YourMechanic — name, years of experience, state licence ID, home city, full service-area list, rating, review breakdown, badges, languages and bio.

🕒 Last updated: 2026-07-29 · 📊 25+ fields per mechanic · 🇺🇸 3,000+ US cities · 🚫 No login or API key · ⚡ Plain HTTP, fast & cheap · ♻️ Cross-city dedupe (never billed twice for the same mechanic)

YourMechanic is the largest mobile (comes-to-you) auto-repair network in the US. This actor turns its public mechanic profiles into a flat, ready-to-use dataset: pick cities — or leave it empty and it crawls every city on YourMechanic's own city index (3,243 of them) — and get one clean JSON record per mechanic.

Because one mechanic serves many neighbouring cities, the actor dedupes globally on the mechanic's canonical /pro/<slug> id: the same technician is fetched once, returned once, and charged once, no matter how many city pages list him.

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📊 What you get — 25+ fields per mechanic

Field	Example
🆔 slug / profile_url	tinashe / https://www.yourmechanic.com/pro/tinashe
👤 first_name / display_name / last_initial	Tinashe / Tinashe K / K
🏷️ business_name	Tinashe's Auto Repair
🛠️ years_experience	18
📍 city / state / location	Atlanta / GA / Atlanta, GA
🏠 home_city / home_city_slug	Canton / canton-ga
🗺️ service_area_cities	[{ "name": "Roswell, GA", "slug": "roswell-ga", "url": "…" }, …]
📄 license_id	ARD304699 (California ARD registration — CA mechanics only)
💼 employment_type	Independent Contractor
⭐ rating / review_count	4.5 / 1220
📈 rating_breakdown	{ "5_star": 1172, "4_star": 22, "3_star": 5, "2_star": 5, "1_star": 16 }
💬 review_tags	[{ "tag": "Professional", "count": 1129 }, …]
🏅 badges	["ASE Certified", "Master Technician", "Highly Rated"]
✅ background_checked	true
🗣️ languages	["Español", "English"]
📝 about	mechanic-written bio
🖼️ photo_url	headshot image URL
🔗 booking_url	https://www.yourmechanic.com/book?mechanic=tinashe
🔍 meta_title / meta_description	the profile's SEO copy
🏙️ source_city_slug / ⏱️ scraped_at	which city page it was found on / run timestamp

⚠️ Honest coverage note (measured on 30 live profiles, 5 cities): name, years of experience, city/state, home city, employment type, rating, review count, star breakdown, badges, languages and photo come back 100%. about is ~85–93% (some mechanics genuinely leave the bio blank), service_area_cities ~90–97% (a few profiles render the area as a map only), and license_id appears only for California mechanics (~30% of a CA sample, 0% outside CA) — it is the state ARD registration, not a nationwide field. YourMechanic does not publish mechanic phone numbers or emails, so this actor does not return them and does not guess them.

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🎯 Who it's for

• 🚗 Mobile-mechanic and auto-repair startups — map the incumbent network city by city before you enter a market.
• 🧑‍🔧 Recruiters & fleet-service operators — find experienced, ASE-certified, background-checked technicians by metro, years of experience and rating.
• 📊 Competitive & market analysts — technician density, tenure, rating distribution and service-area footprints across 3,000+ US cities.
• 🛠️ Auto-parts, tooling, insurance and warranty vendors — size and segment the independent-technician channel.
• 🔍 Local SEO / directory builders — structured, citable profile data with the exact city slugs YourMechanic ranks for.

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▶️ How to use it

1. Click Try for free.
2. Enter one or more Cities as YourMechanic city slugs — e.g. atlanta-ga, chicago-il, los-angeles-ca. Leave empty to crawl every city on the index.
3. (Optional) set a State filter (ga, tx, …) to keep the crawl to one or more states.
4. Set Max mechanics and click Start. Export from the Dataset tab (JSON, CSV, Excel, Google Sheets) or via API.

Input

Field	What it does
cities	City slugs (atlanta-ga, chicago-il). Empty = every city on YourMechanic's city index.
states	Two-letter state codes to filter the city list (ga, tx).
startUrls	Paste specific /city/<slug> or /pro/<slug> URLs.
maxMechanics	Stop after this many unique mechanics (0 = no limit).
proxyConfiguration	Apify auto (datacenter) proxy by default; falls back to direct, then residential.
requestConcurrency	Parallel profile requests (1–10, default 5).

{
  "cities": ["atlanta-ga", "chicago-il", "los-angeles-ca"],
  "maxMechanics": 100
}

One whole state:

{ "states": ["ga"], "maxMechanics": 500 }

Output — sample mechanic record

{
  "slug": "tinashe",
  "profile_url": "https://www.yourmechanic.com/pro/tinashe",
  "booking_url": "https://www.yourmechanic.com/book?mechanic=tinashe",
  "first_name": "Tinashe",
  "display_name": "Tinashe K",
  "last_initial": "K",
  "business_name": "Tinashe's Auto Repair",
  "years_experience": 18,
  "location": "Atlanta, GA",
  "city": "Atlanta",
  "state": "GA",
  "home_city": "Canton",
  "home_city_slug": "canton-ga",
  "employment_type": "Independent Contractor",
  "license_id": null,
  "about": "I have been servicing vehicles full-time for over 10 years…",
  "rating": 4.5,
  "review_count": 1220,
  "rating_breakdown": { "5_star": 1172, "4_star": 22, "3_star": 5, "2_star": 5, "1_star": 16 },
  "badges": ["Highly Rated"],
  "background_checked": true,
  "languages": ["English"],
  "review_tags": [{ "tag": "Professional", "count": 1129 }, { "tag": "Friendly", "count": 1070 }],
  "service_area_cities": [{ "name": "Roswell, GA", "slug": "roswell-ga", "url": "https://www.yourmechanic.com/city/roswell-ga" }],
  "photo_url": "https://res.cloudinary.com/yourmechanic/image/upload/…",
  "source_city_slug": "atlanta-ga",
  "scraped_at": "2026-07-29T00:00:00.000Z"
}

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⚙️ How it works & limits

• Source: YourMechanic's public city pages (/city/<slug>) and mechanic profiles (/pro/<slug>), read over plain HTTP — no browser, no login, no API key. Every field is parsed with structural CSS selectors (the profile header, the schema.org aggregateRating block, the star-breakdown rows, the sidebar boxes), never by a loose regex over the page.
• Sanity-checked numbers: in validation the star breakdown summed exactly to review_count on 30/30 profiles, and the reviews-tab count matched review_count on 30/30.
• ~10 mechanics per city page. That is what YourMechanic lists per city; there is no "next page". Coverage comes from breadth (3,243 cities), and neighbouring cities overlap heavily — expect far fewer unique mechanics than cities × 10.
• Some city pages list 0 mechanics (e.g. Boston at the time of writing). That is a real site condition, not a scrape failure; the actor logs it and moves on.
• Individual review texts are not returned — YourMechanic renders them client-side from an API. You get the aggregate rating, the full star breakdown and the trait tags with counts.
• No emails or phone numbers are published on these profiles, so none are returned.
• Fails loudly: if the frontier returns nothing parseable, the run errors instead of finishing with an empty dataset.

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❓ FAQ

Is this legal? The actor reads publicly available profile pages that YourMechanic publishes and Google indexes. You are responsible for complying with YourMechanic's Terms of Service. These records describe individual tradespeople, so handling that personal data lawfully (GDPR/CCPA, marketing consent, CAN-SPAM/TCPA where applicable) is your responsibility.

Does it return phone numbers or emails? No — YourMechanic does not publish them on mechanic profiles. Every field here comes from the public profile page; nothing is guessed or enriched.

Can I scrape the whole US? Yes — leave cities and states empty and it discovers every city slug from YourMechanic's own city index, then walks them. Use maxMechanics to cap cost.

Will I be charged twice for a mechanic who serves five cities? No. Dedupe is global on the /pro/<slug> id, before the profile is fetched.

What is license_id? California's Automotive Repair Dealer (ARD) registration number, shown only on CA mechanic profiles. It is null elsewhere.

Can I export to Excel or Google Sheets? Yes — the dataset exports to JSON, CSV, Excel or Google Sheets, or pull it via API.

How much does it cost? Pay-per-result — you pay per unique mechanic returned. A single-city run stays tiny, and it's free to try.

Notes & fair use

You are responsible for complying with YourMechanic's Terms of Service. This actor reads publicly available mechanic directory pages. The output contains personal data about individuals; using it lawfully is your responsibility.