Bark.com Scraper

Pull service professionals from Bark.com across the United Kingdom and Ireland at scale — company name, star rating, category, city, website, hires count, response time, and full customer reviews. Professionals and their reviews come back as separate, ready-to-join rows. Built for lead-generation agencies, market researchers, and CRM teams who need a fresh, structured directory of local service providers without copy-pasting profiles one at a time.

Why This Scraper?

• 15 ready-made trade categories — electricians, plumbers, gardeners, builders, painters & decorators, handyman, cleaners, photographers, personal trainers, tutors, accountants, web designers, graphic designers, wedding planners, and dog walkers — picked from a dropdown, no URL slugs to guess.
• Full customer reviews as their own rows — every review carries author name, 1–5 star rating, review text, and date, each linked back to its professional so you can analyze sentiment or join straight into a CRM.
• United Kingdom and Ireland coverage — search any GB or IE city directory, with sensible defaults (London, Manchester, Bristol for the UK; Dublin, Cork, Galway for Ireland) when you leave the city list blank.
• Profile-level credibility signals — hires count ("450 hires on Bark"), aggregate rating, total review count, typical response time ("1 hour"), company size, years in business, and long-form bio, so you can score a professional's track record at a glance.
• Verified contact paths — published external website plus the Bark profile URL on every professional, the two links that turn a listing into a lead.
• Paste any Bark.com URL directly — drop in a category/city directory page or an individual profile page and it's honored exactly as-is, no slug reverse-engineering.
• Zero required input — runs out of the box on the top UK trades and cities; no mandatory feedback or contact fields to fill in before you can start.
• Pay-per-result, split pricing — professionals and reviews are billed separately, so you can pull every available review on a busy professional without a single fixed price ballooning your cost.

Use Cases

Lead Generation & Sales Prospecting

• Build targeted lists of local tradespeople and service businesses by category and city
• Capture website and profile links to fuel outreach campaigns
• Prioritize high-credibility professionals by hires count and rating before you call

Market & Competitive Research

• Map how many electricians, cleaners, or photographers operate in a given city
• Benchmark response times and review volumes across a service category
• Track which professionals dominate a local market by hires and ratings

Reputation & Review Analysis

• Pull full review text and star ratings to run sentiment analysis on a category
• Compare review counts and average ratings across competing professionals
• Surface common complaints or praise themes from real customer feedback

Directory & Aggregator Building

• Populate a local-services directory with structured professional profiles
• Keep an existing listings database fresh with current ratings and reviews
• Enrich a CRM with bios, services offered, and seller locations

Recruitment & Partner Sourcing

• Find skilled tradespeople and freelancers for subcontracting or hiring
• Identify wedding planners, photographers, or tutors for partnership programs
• Scout active professionals by recency and volume of completed hires

Getting Started

Simple — top UK electricians

The minimal run: pick a category and let it use the default top cities.

{
    "category": "electricians",
    "maxResults": 50
}

Filtered — cleaners across Irish cities

Target a specific country and your own list of cities.

{
    "category": "cleaners",
    "country": "ie",
    "cities": ["dublin", "cork", "galway"],
    "maxResults": 200
}

Advanced — full detail with capped reviews

Pull every field, capping reviews to the 10 most recent per professional to control cost.

{
    "category": "photographers",
    "country": "gb",
    "cities": ["london", "manchester", "bristol"],
    "includeProfileDetails": true,
    "maxReviewsPerPro": 10,
    "maxResults": 500
}

Paste your own Bark.com URLs

Drop in directory pages or individual profile pages — filters in the URL are honored as-is.

{
    "searchUrls": [
        "https://www.bark.com/en/gb/electricians/london/",
        "https://www.bark.com/en/ie/cleaners/dublin/"
    ],
    "maxResults": 300
}

Input Reference

What to Scrape

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
searchUrls	array	[]	Bark.com category/city directory URLs or individual professional profile URLs. Honored as-is. Leave blank to use the guided filters below.

Filters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
category	string	"electricians"	Service category to search. Choose from 15 trades. Ignored when URLs are provided.
country	string	"gb"	Country directory: United Kingdom (gb) or Ireland (ie).
cities	array	["london", "manchester", "bristol"]	City names to search for the chosen category. Blank uses the top cities for the country.

Output Control

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includeProfileDetails	boolean	true	Visit each professional's profile to add bio, total review count, hires count, response time, company size, years in business, remote-availability, website, and customer reviews. Turn off for faster, listing-only runs with no reviews.
maxReviewsPerPro	integer	0	Cap reviews captured per professional (most recent first). 0 = every available review. Ignored when profile details are off.

Limits

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	100	Cap on total professionals across all category/city combinations. 0 = no cap — collects every professional found across the searches you set up (naturally bounded by your category, city, and URL list, since Bark directory pages have no pagination).

Output

Results come back as two record types in one dataset. Each row carries a recordType field: professional rows are the parent listings, and review rows are individual customer reviews linked back to their professional. Use the Professionals and Reviews dataset views to see each on its own.

Professional

{
    "recordType": "professional",
    "companyName": "Bright Spark Electrical Ltd",
    "category": "electricians",
    "city": "London",
    "country": "gb",
    "rating": 4.9,
    "aggregateRating": 4.9,
    "totalReviewCount": 128,
    "hiresCount": 450,
    "responseTime": "1 hour",
    "companySize": "self-employed",
    "companyAge": 16,
    "availableRemotely": false,
    "description": "NICEIC-approved electricians serving Greater London.",
    "about": "Family-run electrical contractor with over 15 years of experience covering domestic and commercial work across London...",
    "servicesOffered": ["Electrical Installation", "Fuse Board Upgrades", "EV Charger Installation"],
    "sellerLocation": "London, Greater London",
    "website": "https://www.brightsparkelectrical.co.uk",
    "profileImage": "https://images.bark.com/.../profile.jpg",
    "profileUrl": "https://www.bark.com/en/gb/b/bright-spark-electrical/01Alb/",
    "listingUrl": "https://www.bark.com/en/gb/electricians/london/",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-12T09:31:00.000000+00:00"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "professional" for these rows
companyName	string	Professional / company display name
category	string	Service category searched
city	string	City of the directory page
country	string	Country code (gb or ie)
rating	number	Average star rating from the listing card (0–5)
aggregateRating	number	Profile-level aggregate rating (0–5)
totalReviewCount	integer	Total reviews shown on the profile
hiresCount	integer	Number of completed hires on Bark
responseTime	string	Typical response time published on the profile (e.g. "1 hour", "4 min")
companySize	string	Self-reported company size (e.g. "self-employed", "2-10")
companyAge	integer	Years the company has been operating
availableRemotely	boolean	Whether the professional offers services remotely
description	string	Short listing tagline
about	string	Long-form bio from the profile
servicesOffered	array	Service tags the professional offers
sellerLocation	string	Professional's stated location
website	string	Published external website, when available
profileImage	string	Profile image URL
profileUrl	string	Bark.com profile URL
listingUrl	string	Source directory page URL
scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 collection timestamp

Review

{
    "recordType": "review",
    "author": "Sarah M.",
    "rating": 5,
    "text": "Fantastic service from start to finish. Arrived on time, tidy work, and fairly priced. Would absolutely recommend.",
    "date": "2026-05-28",
    "serviceUsed": null,
    "professionalProfileUrl": "https://www.bark.com/en/gb/b/bright-spark-electrical/01Alb/",
    "professionalName": "Bright Spark Electrical Ltd",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-12T09:31:00.000000+00:00"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "review" for these rows
author	string	Review author name
rating	number	Star rating for this review (0–5)
text	string	Full review body text
date	string	Review date
serviceUsed	string	Service the reviewer hired the professional for. Bark rarely labels this on the review, so it is usually null
professionalProfileUrl	string	Links back to the parent professional's profileUrl
professionalName	string	Links back to the parent professional's companyName
scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 collection timestamp

Tips for Best Results

• Combine categories with cities to scale up. Each city directory holds a fixed set of professionals with no extra pages, so the fastest way to a large dataset is many category-and-city combinations rather than a single search.
• Bark publishes up to 50 reviews per professional on the profile page, even for those showing a higher total review count. Setting maxReviewsPerPro to 0 collects up to that 50.
• Turn off includeProfileDetails for a quick, cheap headcount — you'll get every professional's name, rating, city, and profile link without bios or reviews.
• Some city pages only exist in a county-prefixed form (for example west-midlands/birmingham rather than birmingham). If a city returns nothing, try a major city like London, Manchester, or Dublin, or paste the exact directory URL.
• Paste profile URLs directly when you already know the professionals you want — they're fetched straight from the profile page with full detail and reviews.
• Use maxReviewsPerPro to control review cost on review-heavy categories; the most recent reviews are kept first.
• Phone and email are not published on Bark — use the website and profile URL as your contact paths.

Pricing

From $1.30 per 1,000 professionals (plus $0.20 per 1,000 reviews collected) at the Gold tier — a transparent, results-based price for a fully structured UK and Ireland service-provider directory. You are charged per professional plus per review collected, so review-heavy professionals never blow up a single fixed price.

Price per event by discount tier

Event	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
Professional (per 1,000)	$1.55	$1.45	$1.40	$1.30
Review (per 1,000)	$0.24	$0.22	$0.21	$0.20

Example run cost (Gold tier)

Scenario	Professionals	Reviews	Approx. total
Quick lead list	100 × 10 reviews	1,000	≈ $0.33
Category sweep	1,000 × 20 reviews	20,000	≈ $5.30
Large directory	10,000 × 15 reviews	150,000	≈ $43.00

Totals cover professionals plus reviews; a small fixed per-run start fee (about $0.005) applies on top.

No compute or time-based charges — you pay per result, plus a small fixed per-run start fee. Charged per professional plus per review collected. Bronze, Silver, and Gold loyalty discounts apply automatically on the Apify platform, so larger and longer-term usage costs progressively less.

Integrations

Export data in JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, or RSS. Connect to 1,500+ apps via:

• Zapier / Make / n8n — Workflow automation
• Google Sheets — Direct spreadsheet export
• Slack / Email — Notifications on new results
• Webhooks — Trigger custom APIs on run completion
• Apify API — Full programmatic access

Legal & Ethical Use

This actor collects publicly available information from Bark.com. Use it responsibly and in compliance with Bark.com's terms of service and all applicable laws, including data-protection regulations such as the UK GDPR and EU GDPR. Personal data contained in reviews and professional profiles must be handled lawfully — obtain a valid legal basis before processing, and respect the rights of the individuals concerned. You are responsible for how you use the collected data; do not use it for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose.