# Caring.com Senior Living Scraper - Assisted Living & Leads (`scrapesage/caring-senior-living-scraper`) Actor Scrape senior living facilities from Caring.com: assisted living, memory care, independent living, nursing homes & home care. Get pricing, ratings, reviews, amenities, capacity, licenses, phone, website & owner leads. Filter by city, care type, rating & price. Monitor mode. Export JSON, CSV, Excel. - **URL**: https://apify.com/scrapesage/caring-senior-living-scraper.md - **Developed by:** [Scrape Sage](https://apify.com/scrapesage) (community) - **Categories:** Lead generation, Agents, Integrations - **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks - **User rating**: No ratings yet ## Pricing $5.00 / 1,000 facility scrapeds 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? Actors are web data automations that power AI and operations. They run on the Apify platform to scrape websites, process data, connect APIs, and automate workflows. 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? If asked about integration, you help developers integrate Actors into their projects. You adapt to their stack and deliver integrations that are safe, well-documented, and production-ready. 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For more details, see Apify documentation as [Markdown index](https://docs.apify.com/llms.txt) and [Markdown full-text](https://docs.apify.com/llms-full.txt). # README ## Caring.com Senior Living Scraper — Assisted Living, Memory Care, Pricing, Reviews & Leads Extract **complete senior living facility data** from Caring.com — the largest consumer senior-care directory in the US. Get **real starting prices and room-type costs, average + per-category ratings, full reviews, amenities, resident capacity, state license numbers, phone, and the facility's own website** for assisted living, memory care, independent living, nursing homes, home care and more. Optionally turn every community into a **ready-to-contact lead** with emails, phone and social links crawled from its website. No login, no API key, no browser — fast JSON extraction with 99%+ reliability. ### Why this senior living scraper? Most senior-care scrapers return only a facility name, city and a rating — and stop. This actor reads Caring.com's own data API and ships the **richest senior living dataset in the category**: | Data | Typical scrapers | This actor | |---|---|---| | Starting price + per-room-type monthly costs (studio / 1BR / 2BR) | ❌ | ✅ real prices | | Average rating **and** sub-ratings (staff, food, activities, facilities, value) | partial | ✅ | | Full resident & family reviews (text, author, date, provider response) | ❌ | ✅ opt-in | | Amenities, services, accommodations, resident capacity | ❌ | ✅ | | State license number, pets policy, Caring Star award | ❌ | ✅ | | Facility phone number | partial | ✅ | | Facility **website** + contact **emails / socials** | ❌ | ✅ opt-in | | Lead score (0–100) per facility | ❌ | ✅ | | Full address, ZIP, county + lat/lng | partial | ✅ | | New-facility & price-drop monitoring | ❌ | ✅ opt-in | ### Use cases - **Lead generation** — sell to senior-living operators and the vendors around them (placement agencies, home-care franchises, senior-care SaaS, medical supplies, food service, staffing, insurance, marketing agencies). Score communities by reviews, ratings, capacity and Caring Star status, and reach them via `phoneNumber`, `website`, and crawled `emails`. - **Market & pricing intelligence** — benchmark assisted living / memory care prices by city and room type (`startPriceMonthly`, per-service `roomTypeCosts`), track rating distributions and amenity coverage. - **Senior-housing & real-estate research** — senior living is a major residential real-estate asset class; pull inventory, capacity, pricing and licensing for investors, REITs, developers and brokers. - **Referral & placement platforms** — build and refresh a structured directory of communities with pricing, amenities and reviews for families comparing options. - **Competitor & reputation monitoring** — schedule recurring runs to watch new openings, price changes and review/rating movement in any market. ### How to use 1. [Sign up for Apify](https://console.apify.com/sign-up) — the free plan is enough to try this actor. 2. Open the **Caring.com Senior Living Scraper**, enter care types and locations (or paste Caring.com URLs), and click **Start**. 3. Watch facility records stream into the dataset table. 4. **Export** as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results programmatically via the [Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2). ### Input ```json { "careTypes": ["assisted-living", "memory-care"], "locations": ["Los Angeles, CA", "Houston, TX"], "maxResults": 200, "includeFacilityDetails": true, "includeReviews": true, "enrichContactEmails": true, "minRating": "4" } ``` - **careTypes** — senior care categories, combined with every location. Friendly names work: `assisted-living`, `memory-care`, `independent-living`, `nursing-homes` (skilled nursing), `continuing-care` (CCRC), `senior-apartments`, `home-care`, `home-health`, `adult-day-care`, `hospice`, `geriatric-care-managers`, or `senior-care` (all types). - **locations** — US locations as `City, ST` (e.g. `Los Angeles, CA`) or `City, State Name` (`Los Angeles, California`). - **startUrls** — direct Caring.com URLs: facility profiles (`/senior-living///`) or listing pages (`/senior-living///`). - **maxResults** — max facilities to scan across all searches. - **minRating / maxStartingPrice / caringStarOnly / hasWebsiteOnly** — filters. - **includeFacilityDetails** *(default true)* — fetch each facility's full profile for website, capacity, amenities, services & room costs, license, photos, awards, FAQs and per-category ratings. - **includeReviews** *(default false)* — attach resident/family reviews as a nested `reviews` array inside each facility record (no separate rows — the dataset stays one clean row per facility). - **enrichContactEmails** *(default false)* — crawl the facility's own website (home + contact/about) for emails, phone, a contact form and social links. Caring.com does not publish facility emails — this is the only way to get them. - **monitorMode** *(default false)* — only output facilities that are NEW or whose price / rating / review count CHANGED since the last run. ### Output One clean record per facility (`type: "facility"`), with reviews nested inside (no blank rows): ```json { "type": "facility", "facilityId": "7c381596-c563-4688-aad2-4f39203c1055", "name": "Belmont Village Hollywood Heights", "careType": "Assisted Living", "profileUrl": "https://www.caring.com/senior-living/california/los-angeles/belmont-village-hollywood-heights-90068", "phoneNumber": "3238747711", "website": "http://hollywoodheights.belmontvillage.com/", "street": "2051 N. Highland Avenue", "city": "Los Angeles", "state": "California", "county": "Los Angeles", "zipCode": "90068", "formattedAddress": "2051 N. Highland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90068", "latitude": 34.108070374, "longitude": -118.337837219, "averageRating": 4.5, "reviewCount": 26, "startPriceMonthly": 7175, "priceCurrency": "USD", "isCaringStar": true, "residentCapacity": 174, "petsAllowed": "Small pets allowed", "stateLicenses": "197608467", "amenityCount": 41, "amenities": ["Coffee Shop", "Communal Dining", "Fitness & wellness facilities", "..."], "services": [{ "license": "197608467", "costs": { "currency": "USD", "startingPriceCents": 717500 }, "roomTypeCosts": [{ "category": "STUDIO", "startingPriceCents": 717500 }, { "category": "ONE_BEDROOM", "startingPriceCents": 970000 }] }], "ratingsByCategory": { "staff": { "rating": 4.6, "count": 9 }, "food": { "rating": 5, "count": 2 }, "facilities": { "rating": 4.6, "count": 9 } }, "photoUrls": ["https://..."], "reviewsScraped": 20, "reviews": [{ "rating": 5, "title": "Wonderful community", "content": "The staff are attentive…", "authorName": "Gloria", "createdAt": "2025-09-12T00:00:00.000Z", "providerResponse": null }], "emails": ["info@belmontvillage.com"], "leadScore": 84, "searchCareType": "assisted-living", "searchLocation": "Los Angeles, CA", "scrapedAt": "2026-06-16T12:00:00.000Z" } ``` ### Automate & schedule Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack: - **[Apify API](https://docs.apify.com/api/v2)** — start runs, fetch datasets, and manage schedules over REST. - **[apify-client for JavaScript](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/)** and **[apify-client for Python](https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/)** — official SDKs. - **[Schedules](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules)** — run it daily/weekly to track new openings, price drops and review changes in a city or care type. Turn on **monitorMode** and the schedule will only surface what changed — a hands-off new-facility & price-drop feed. - **[Webhooks](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/webhooks)** — trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes. ```js import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client'; const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' }); const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/caring-senior-living-scraper').call({ careTypes: ['assisted-living', 'memory-care'], locations: ['Phoenix, AZ'], maxResults: 200, enrichContactEmails: true, }); const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems(); console.log(`Got ${items.length} facilities & reviews`); ``` ### Integrate with any app Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required: - **[Make](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/make)** — multi-step automation scenarios. - **[Zapier](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/zapier)** — push new facility leads straight into your CRM. - **[Slack](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/slack)** — get notified when a monitored market gets a new community. - **[Google Drive / Sheets](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive)** — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet. - **[Airbyte](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/airbyte)** — pipe results into your data warehouse. - **[GitHub](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/github)** — trigger runs from commits or releases. ### Use with AI assistants (MCP) The output is clean, LLM-ready JSON. Call this actor from Claude, ChatGPT, or any agent framework through the **[Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp)** — ask your assistant to "find 4★+ memory care communities in Phoenix under $6,000/month with contact details" and let it run this scraper for you. ### Agent-ready: autonomous payments (x402 & Skyfire) This actor is **agent-ready** — AI agents can discover it, run it, and **pay for it autonomously**, with no Apify account and no human in the loop. It uses [pay-per-event](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/publishing/monetize/pay-per-event) pricing and [limited permissions](https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/development/permissions), so it qualifies for Apify's agentic-payment standards: - **[x402](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/x402)** — an open, HTTP-native payment protocol. Agents pay per run in USDC on the Base network directly through the [Apify MCP server](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/mcp) — no account, no API key. - **[Skyfire](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/skyfire)** — agent-to-service payments for fully autonomous AI-agent workflows. Building an AI agent, MCP tool, or autonomous data pipeline? This scraper is ready to plug in and pay as it goes. ### More scrapers from scrapesage Build a complete healthcare, real-estate and local-services lead-gen stack: - **[Healthgrades Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/healthgrades-scraper)** — doctors, reviews and provider leads. - **[WebMD Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/webmd-scraper)** — physicians, insurance and provider leads. - **[FastExpert Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/fastexpert-agent-scraper)** — real estate agent leads and reviews. - **[Rent.com Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/rent-com-scraper)** — apartments, rentals and property-management leads. - **[Booksy Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/booksy-scraper)** — beauty & wellness provider leads. - **[Fresha Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/fresha-scraper)** — salon, spa & wellness business leads. - **[Bark Listing Scraper](https://apify.com/scrapesage/bark-listing-scraper)** — local service-provider leads. ### Tips - **Large markets**: a single city/care type can list hundreds of communities — set `maxResults` to cover the inventory you need (the actor paginates automatically). - **Recurring monitoring**: combine [Schedules](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules) with `monitorMode` to track only new openings and price/rating changes; use a `maxResults` large enough to cover the market you watch. - **Best leads**: turn on `includeFacilityDetails` (default) for the website, then `enrichContactEmails` to crawl it — and sort by `leadScore`. - **Cost control**: detail and email enrichment only run when enabled; filters (`minRating`, `maxStartingPrice`, `caringStarOnly`) trim the set before any extra requests. ### FAQ **Which care types are supported?** Assisted living, memory care, independent living, nursing homes (skilled nursing), continuing care retirement communities (CCRC), senior apartments, home care, home health, adult day care, hospice, and geriatric care managers — plus `senior-care` for all types at once. **How do I scrape senior living for a specific city?** Put the city in `locations` as `City, ST` (e.g. `Austin, TX`) and pick one or more `careTypes`. Each care type is combined with every location. **Does it need an API key or login?** No. The actor reads Caring.com's public data — no key, no login, no browser. **Where do the emails come from?** Never from Caring.com (it doesn't publish facility emails). With `enrichContactEmails` on, the actor visits the facility's own public website and extracts publicly listed contact details — the same thing a human visitor would see. **Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel?** Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically on every run via the [Google Drive integration](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations/drive). **How do I monitor new facilities and price drops automatically?** Turn on `monitorMode`, then create a [Schedule](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules). Each run outputs only facilities that are new or whose price / rating / review count changed. **A field is null — why?** Some communities genuinely don't publish a price (call-for-pricing), a website, or certain amenities. Fields are `null` only when the data doesn't exist, not because the scraper skipped them. **Is scraping Caring.com legal?** This actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws (GDPR/CCPA for personal data) and Caring.com's terms. ### Need help? Open an issue on the actor's **Issues** tab, or visit the [Apify help center](https://help.apify.com/). Feature requests are welcome — this actor is actively maintained. # Actor input Schema ## `careTypes` (type: `array`): Senior care categories to scrape (combined with every location). Friendly names are accepted: assisted-living, memory-care, independent-living, nursing-homes (skilled nursing), continuing-care (CCRC), senior-apartments, home-care, home-health, adult-day-care, hospice, geriatric-care-managers, senior-care (all types). ## `locations` (type: `array`): US locations as City, ST (e.g. Los Angeles, CA, Houston, TX, Miami, FL). Full state names also work (Los Angeles, California). Each location is combined with every care type. ## `startUrls` (type: `array`): Direct Caring.com URLs — facility profiles (/senior-living/\/\/\) or listing pages (/senior-living/\/\/\). Used in addition to the search above. ## `maxResults` (type: `integer`): Maximum number of facilities to scrape across all care types, locations and URLs. ## `minRating` (type: `integer`): Only include facilities with an average review rating at or above this value (1–5). Use 0 for any rating. ## `maxStartingPrice` (type: `integer`): Only include facilities whose advertised starting price (per month) is at or below this value. Leave empty for no filter. ## `caringStarOnly` (type: `boolean`): Only include facilities that hold a Caring Star award (top consumer-rated communities). ## `hasWebsiteOnly` (type: `boolean`): Only include facilities that publish an official website (best for email enrichment). Requires "Include facility details". ## `includeFacilityDetails` (type: `boolean`): Fetch each facility's full profile for website, resident capacity, amenities, services & room costs, state license, accommodations, photos, awards, FAQs and per-category ratings (food, staff, activities, value). One extra request per facility. ## `includeReviews` (type: `boolean`): Attach resident/family reviews (rating, title, text, author, date, provider response) as a nested reviews array inside each facility record. Requires facility details. ## `maxReviewsPerFacility` (type: `integer`): Cap the number of review records emitted per facility. ## `enrichContactEmails` (type: `boolean`): Crawl each facility's own website (home + contact/about, up to 3 pages) for contact emails, phone numbers, a contact-form URL and social links. Requires facility details. Caring.com itself does not publish facility emails — this is the only way to get them. ## `monitorMode` (type: `boolean`): Remember facilities seen on previous runs (by facility ID) and only output ones that are NEW or whose price / rating / review count CHANGED. Pair with Apify Schedules for a hands-off new-facility & price-drop feed. ## `monitorStoreName` (type: `string`): Named key-value store that holds the 'seen' fingerprints for monitor mode. Use a different name per saved search to track them independently. Lowercase letters, digits and hyphens only. ## `proxyConfiguration` (type: `object`): Proxies to use. The default Apify proxy works well — Caring.com's data API is reachable from datacenter IPs. ## `urlsFromFile` (type: `string`): Paste a list of URLs (one per line), OR one link to a .txt/.csv file, Google Sheet or Google Drive file containing them. Lets you import many Start URLs at once instead of typing each. Google Sheet/Drive share links are handled automatically. ## Actor input object example ```json { "careTypes": [ "assisted-living" ], "locations": [ "Los Angeles, CA" ], "maxResults": 100, "minRating": 0, "caringStarOnly": false, "hasWebsiteOnly": false, "includeFacilityDetails": true, "includeReviews": false, "maxReviewsPerFacility": 20, "enrichContactEmails": false, "monitorMode": false, "monitorStoreName": "caring-monitor", "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true } } ``` # Actor output Schema ## `results` (type: `string`): All scraped facility records (reviews nested inside each facility) as JSON items in the default dataset. # 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 '' with your token const client = new ApifyClient({ token: '', }); // Prepare Actor input const input = { "careTypes": [ "assisted-living" ], "locations": [ "Los Angeles, CA" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }, "urlsFromFile": "" }; // Run the Actor and wait for it to finish const run = await client.actor("scrapesage/caring-senior-living-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 '' with your token. client = ApifyClient("") # Prepare the Actor input run_input = { "careTypes": ["assisted-living"], "locations": ["Los Angeles, CA"], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": True }, "urlsFromFile": "", } # Run the Actor and wait for it to finish run = client.actor("scrapesage/caring-senior-living-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 '{ "careTypes": [ "assisted-living" ], "locations": [ "Los Angeles, CA" ], "proxyConfiguration": { "useApifyProxy": true }, "urlsFromFile": "" }' | apify call scrapesage/caring-senior-living-scraper --silent --output-dataset ``` ## MCP server setup ```json { "mcpServers": { "apify": { "type": "http", "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,scrapesage/caring-senior-living-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 ` 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/O3THeon0ZhEO7febH/builds/kmuxeTAqoJpyJdIHs/openapi.json