Hipages Scraper — Australian Tradie & Home Services Leads (Phones, ABN & Reviews)

Extract complete tradie & home-service business data from hipages — Australia's #1 home-improvement marketplace. Get the fields lead lists actually need: business name, phone & mobile, ABN (with verification link), trade licence flag, service area, star rating & review count, services offered, headline and a 0-100 lead score — for plumbers, electricians, builders, painters, carpenters, landscapers and 100+ trades, in any Australian suburb.

No login, no API key, no browser — fast JSON extraction straight from the page data.

Why this hipages scraper?

The biggest home-services directories (Angi, Thumbtack, HomeAdvisor) sit behind anti-bot walls, so most "contractor lead" tools fall back to scraping Google Maps and miss the trade-specific signals. This actor reads hipages' own page data and ships the richest tradie record in the category:

Data	Typical scrapers	This actor
Business name + profile URL	✅	✅
Phone / mobile number	partial	✅
ABN + ABR verification link	❌	✅
Trade licence flag	❌	✅
Star rating + review count	partial	✅
Times hired / total ratings	❌	✅
Services offered (full list)	❌	✅
Headline, tagline & highlights	❌	✅
Premium / verified status	❌	✅
Customer reviews (rating + text)	❌	✅ opt-in
Homeowner job requests (demand-side leads)	❌	✅ opt-in
Lead score (0-100) per tradie	❌	✅
Monitoring — only new tradies	❌	✅

Use cases

• Lead generation — tradies are high-intent local buyers for job-management & invoicing software (ServiceM8, Tradify, AroFlo, simPRO), payments, marketing, tools, materials and insurance. Score them by reputation and reach (reviewCount, licensed, abnValid, isPremium) and contact them by phone / mobile.
• Sales territory building — pull every plumber / electrician / builder in a metro with phone, ABN and service area for route planning and outreach.
• Market & competitive intelligence — compare ratings, services and review volumes across trades and suburbs.
• Demand intelligence — turn on includeJobLeads to capture recent homeowner job requests (what work people want done, where) — a unique demand-side signal for tradies and lead vendors.
• Monitoring — schedule recurring runs to watch a trade + area for newly listed tradies with monitoring mode.
• Aggregators & directories — feed apps and CRMs with structured, verified Australian tradie data.

How to use

1. Sign up for Apify — the free plan is enough to try this actor.
2. Open the Hipages Scraper, choose trades and locations (or paste hipages URLs), and click Start.
3. Watch tradies stream into the dataset table.
4. Export as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS — or pull results via the Apify API.

Input

{
    "categories": ["plumbers", "electricians"],
    "locations": ["Sydney, NSW", "Melbourne, VIC"],
    "maxResults": 200,
    "includeBusinessDetails": true,
    "includeReviews": false,
    "includeJobLeads": false,
    "expandNearbySuburbs": false,
    "monitorMode": false
}

• categories — trades such as plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, builders, tilers, plasterers, bricklayers, concreting, fencing, landscaping, roofing, gardening, handyman, gas_fitters, cabinet_makers, air_conditioning, pest_control, cleaning, removalists. Friendly words like plumber, sparky, aircon, removals are auto-mapped, and any valid hipages category slug also works. Each trade pairs with every location.
• locations — Australian Suburb, STATE (Sydney, NSW, Bondi, NSW, Brisbane, QLD). A suburb is required (hipages has no state-only listing); a bare state (NSW) or capital city (Perth) resolves to that capital. States: NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, NT.
• startUrls — hipages listing URLs (/find/<trade>/<state>/<suburb>) or profile URLs (/connect/<slug>).
• maxResults / maxBusinessesPerSearch — global and per-search caps.
• minRating / minReviews / withPhoneOnly / licensedOnly / validAbnOnly — quality & trust filters.
• includeBusinessDetails (default true) — open each profile for ABN, full rating, services and review texts.
• includeServices (default true) — the list of services each tradie offers.
• includeReviews (default false) — output review records (type review).
• includeJobLeads (default false) — output homeowner job-request records (type job).
• expandNearbySuburbs (default false) — follow nearby suburbs for broader coverage (hipages has no deep pagination).
• monitorMode (default false) — emit only tradies not seen in previous runs.

Output

One record per tradie (type: "business"), plus optional review and job records:

{
    "type": "business",
    "source": "hipages",
    "businessId": "3112625",
    "slug": "hoppysplumbing",
    "name": "Hoppy's Plumbing",
    "profileUrl": "https://hipages.com.au/connect/hoppysplumbing",
    "categoryName": "Plumbers",
    "tradeType": "Plumber",
    "state": "nsw",
    "suburb": "sydney",
    "serviceArea": "Sydney",
    "phone": "0462630927",
    "mobile": "0462630927",
    "abn": "62675918859",
    "abnValid": true,
    "abnVerifyUrl": "https://www.abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View/62675918859",
    "licensed": true,
    "rating": 4.9,
    "totalRatings": 604,
    "totalHired": 895,
    "reviewCount": 653,
    "headline": "We offer a full line of services for all your plumbing, drain cleaning and gas-fitting needs.",
    "highlights": ["Commercial Services", "Top Quality Services", "Plumbing & Gas-Fitting"],
    "isPremium": true,
    "serviceCount": 32,
    "services": ["Plumbers", "Bathroom Resurfacing", "Backflow Services", "New Drain Plumbing"],
    "aggregateRating": { "ratingValue": 5, "ratingCount": 22, "bestRating": 5, "worstRating": 1 },
    "featuredRecommendation": { "comment": "Fixed my toilet within 10 minutes. Very happy.", "author": "Wei", "jobPostcode": 2000 },
    "leadScore": 92,
    "searchCategory": "plumbers",
    "searchLocation": "Sydney, NSW",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-15T12:00:00.000Z"
}

Review rows carry businessName, rating, text, author and profileUrl. Job rows carry the homeowner's description, suburb, postcode and state.

Automate & schedule

Run this actor on autopilot and pull results into your own stack:

• Apify API — start runs, fetch datasets, manage schedules over REST.
• apify-client for JavaScript and Python — official SDKs.
• Schedules — run it daily/weekly to track newly listed tradies in a trade + area; perfect for lead pipelines.
• Webhooks — trigger downstream actions (CRM import, Slack alert, email sequence) the moment a run finishes.

import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

const client = new ApifyClient({ token: 'MY_APIFY_TOKEN' });

const run = await client.actor('scrapesage/hipages-scraper').call({
    categories: ['plumbers', 'electricians'],
    locations: ['Sydney, NSW'],
    maxResults: 200,
});

const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
console.log(`Got ${items.length} tradies`);

Monitoring mode

Turn on monitorMode and the actor remembers every business id it has returned (in a named key-value store) and emits only new tradies on the next run. It pairs cleanly with Schedules — the schedule triggers the run; monitoring decides what's new — so you can watch a trade + area for newly listed businesses without conflict or duplicates.

Integrate with any app

Connect the dataset to 5,000+ apps — no code required:

• Make — multi-step automation scenarios.
• Zapier — push new tradie leads straight into your CRM.
• Slack — get notified when a monitored search finds new tradies.
• Google Drive / Sheets — auto-export every run to a spreadsheet.
• Airbyte — pipe results into your data warehouse.
• 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 — ask your assistant to "find the top-rated licensed plumbers in Sydney with their phone numbers" and let it run this scraper for you.

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Tips

• More tradies per city: each trade + suburb page returns the ~15-20 top-ranked tradies. To go deeper, add more suburbs (Parramatta, NSW, Bondi, NSW, …) or turn on expandNearbySuburbs to follow adjacent suburbs automatically.
• Best phone coverage: phone & mobile come straight from the listing data — you get them even without business details.
• ABN & services: keep includeBusinessDetails on — the ABN number, service catalogue and review texts live on each tradie's profile page.
• Cost control: filter with minRating / withPhoneOnly / licensedOnly and cap with maxResults. Details, reviews and job leads are all opt-in.

FAQ

How do I scrape tradies for a specific suburb? Put the suburb in locations as Suburb, STATE (Bondi, NSW, Carlton, VIC) and pick categories. Each trade pairs with each location.

Which trades are supported? Plumbers, electricians, carpenters, painters, builders, tilers, plasterers, bricklayers, concreters, fencing, landscaping, roofing, gardening, handyman, gas fitters, cabinet makers, air conditioning, pest control, cleaning, removalists and any other hipages category — friendly words auto-map and raw slugs pass through.

Where do phone numbers come from? Phone and mobile come from hipages' own public listing data. hipages keeps tradies on-platform, so there is usually no external website to crawl — the phone is the contact.

What is the ABN field? The Australian Business Number — a verified business identifier. The actor includes the number and an Australian Business Register verification link, so you can confirm and enrich each lead.

Can I export to Google Sheets, CSV, or Excel? Yes — one click in the dataset view, or automatically every run via the Google Drive integration.

How do I get only new tradies over time? Turn on monitorMode and create a Schedule; each run emits only tradies not seen before.

A field is null — why? Some tradies genuinely don't publish a particular detail (e.g. an ABN number, a service list, or a landline). Fields are null only when the data doesn't exist, not because the scraper skipped them.

Is scraping hipages legal? This actor collects publicly available data only. You are responsible for using the data in compliance with applicable laws (including the Australian Privacy Act / GDPR / CCPA for personal data) and hipages' terms.

Need help?

Open an issue on the actor's Issues tab, or visit the Apify help center. Feature requests are welcome — this actor is actively maintained.