Rover Scraper

Pull pet-care providers from Rover at scale — sitter names, profile URLs, per-service rates, star ratings, repeat-client counts, background-check status, full bios, and the actual review text behind every rating. Search by ZIP or city, or paste Rover search URLs, across five service categories nationwide. Built for pet-care marketers, marketplace analysts, and lead-gen teams who need structured Rover sitter and review data without copying profiles one page at a time.

Why This Scraper?

• Individual reviews, not just a count — every review comes back as its own row with reviewer name, date, star rating, full review text, the pet's name, and which service it was for. Competing Rover scrapers expose only a review number.
• Five Rover service categories — Dog Boarding, House Sitting, Drop-In Visits, Doggy Day Care, and Dog Walking, each searchable by name.
• Full sitter profiles on demand — bio, every service offered with its individual rate and unit, response rate, response time, years of experience, accepted pet sizes (small / medium / large / giant), and the photo gallery.
• Native server-side filters — minimum rating, minimum price, and maximum price are applied by Rover before results are returned, so you never collect (or pay for) sitters outside your criteria.
• Trust signals on every sitter — background-check status, the Star Sitter badge, repeat-client count, and distance in miles from your search point.
• Per-service rates with units — price plus its unit ("per night", "per walk", "per visit") so a boarding rate is never confused with a walking rate.
• Search by location or by URL, nationwide — type "Austin, TX" or "10001", or paste a Rover results page; coverage spans the United States.
• Two clean record types — sitter rows and review rows share a stable, camelCase schema with ISO-8601 timestamps, ready to load straight into a database or sheet.

Use Cases

Pet-Care Market Research

• Map sitter supply and pricing by ZIP, city, or metro
• Compare average rates across the five service categories
• Track Star Sitter density in target neighborhoods
• Benchmark response rates and response times across a market

Lead Generation for Pet Businesses

• Build prospect lists of active, highly-rated sitters in a region
• Identify sitters with high repeat-client counts for partnership outreach
• Find background-checked providers to recruit or feature
• Segment sitters by the services they offer

Competitive Rate Analysis

• Pull per-night, per-walk, and per-visit rates side by side
• Compare your own listing's pricing against local competitors
• Spot premium sitters by rating, repeat clients, and review volume
• Monitor how rates shift across seasons and locations

Reputation & Review Mining

• Collect full review text to surface what owners praise or complain about
• Analyze sentiment by service type or pet name mentions
• Track review recency and rating trends for any sitter
• Build a sitter directory enriched with real customer feedback

Getting Started

Quick Sitter Sweep

Search one ZIP for dog boarding — fast, sitters only:

{
    "searchLocations": ["10001"],
    "serviceType": "overnight-boarding",
    "maxResults": 50
}

Filtered, Multi-Location Search

Top-rated, mid-priced dog walkers across several cities:

{
    "searchLocations": ["Austin, TX", "Denver, CO", "78701"],
    "serviceType": "dog-walking",
    "minRating": 4,
    "minPrice": 20,
    "maxPrice": 40,
    "maxResults": 200
}

Full Profiles + Reviews

Enrich each sitter with their complete profile and up to 30 reviews:

{
    "searchLocations": ["Chicago, IL"],
    "serviceType": "doggy-day-care",
    "includeSitterDetails": true,
    "includeReviews": true,
    "maxReviewsPerSitter": 30,
    "maxResults": 100
}

Using a Rover URL

Paste a Rover search-results URL — its filters are used exactly as they appear:

{
    "startUrls": [
        "https://www.rover.com/search/?category=overnight-boarding&centerlat=40.75&centerlng=-73.99"
    ],
    "maxResults": 100
}

Input Reference

What to Scrape

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	string[]	[]	Paste full Rover search URLs. Filters already in the URL are used as-is; the Search Filters below are ignored for URLs.
searchLocations	string[]	["10001"]	ZIP codes or "City, ST" (e.g. "Austin, TX"). Each is searched with the Search Filters below. No need to build URLs manually.

Search Filters

These apply to Search Locations only. URLs carry their own filters.

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
serviceType	select	Dog Boarding	Which pet-care service to search: Dog Boarding, House Sitting, Drop-In Visits, Doggy Day Care, or Dog Walking.
minRating	integer	—	Only return sitters with at least this average star rating (1–5).
minPrice	integer	—	Only return sitters whose base price is at least this amount (USD).
maxPrice	integer	—	Only return sitters whose base price is at most this amount (USD).

Options

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
maxResults	integer	100	Maximum sitters across all URLs and locations combined. Set to 0 for unlimited (capped internally at 10,000 for safety). Start with 10–50 to test.
includeSitterDetails	boolean	false	Fetch each sitter's full profile: bio, all services with rates, response rate and time, years of experience, accepted pets, and photos. Richer data, slower.

Reviews

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
includeReviews	boolean	false	Also collect each sitter's reviews — text, reviewer, date, and rating. Off by default, so you only collect reviews when you opt in.
maxReviewsPerSitter	integer	20	Maximum reviews per sitter when reviews are on. Set to 0 for all available. Newest reviews come first.

Output

The actor produces two record types, distinguished by recordType: one sitter row per provider, and (when reviews are enabled) one review row per review, each linked back to its sitter.

Sitter record

{
    "recordType": "sitter",
    "name": "Jessica M.",
    "profileId": "abc123xyz",
    "url": "https://www.rover.com/members/jessica-m/",
    "serviceType": "overnight-boarding",
    "serviceTypeLabel": "Dog Boarding",
    "price": 65.0,
    "priceUnit": "per night",
    "currency": "USD",
    "rating": 5.0,
    "reviewCount": 218,
    "repeatClients": 47,
    "neighborhood": "Chelsea",
    "city": "New York",
    "state": "NY",
    "zip": "10001",
    "distanceMiles": 1.03,
    "latitude": 40.7465,
    "longitude": -74.0014,
    "profilePhoto": "https://images.rvcdn.com/example-medium.jpg",
    "backgroundChecked": true,
    "starSitter": true,
    "bio": "I have cared for dogs of all sizes for over eight years...",
    "responseRate": 100,
    "responseTime": "within an hour",
    "yearsOfExperience": 8,
    "services": [
        { "type": "overnight-boarding", "label": "Dog Boarding", "price": 65.0, "unit": "per night" },
        { "type": "dog-walking", "label": "Dog Walking", "price": 22.0, "unit": "per walk" }
    ],
    "acceptedPets": ["small", "medium", "large"],
    "photos": ["https://images.rvcdn.com/gallery1.jpg"],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-11T14:30:00Z"
}

Core Fields

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "sitter" for these rows
name	string	Sitter or walker display name
profileId	string	Stable Rover profile identifier
url	string	Full Rover profile URL
serviceType	string	Service slug this result was found under
serviceTypeLabel	string	Human-readable service name
scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 timestamp of extraction

Pricing & Ratings

Field	Type	Description
price	number	Base price for this service
priceUnit	string	Unit for the price (per night / per walk / per visit)
currency	string	ISO currency code (USD)
rating	number	Average star rating
reviewCount	number	Total number of star ratings on the profile (can exceed the number of written review rows returned, since not every rating includes written text)
repeatClients	number	Count of repeat clients

Location & Trust

Field	Type	Description
neighborhood	string	Sitter neighborhood
city	string	City
state	string	Two-letter state code
zip	string	ZIP code
distanceMiles	number	Distance from the search point
latitude	number	Latitude
longitude	number	Longitude
profilePhoto	string	Profile photo URL
backgroundChecked	boolean	Background-check verified
starSitter	boolean	Rover "Star Sitter" badge

Profile Details

Populated when includeSitterDetails is on.

Field	Type	Description
bio	string	Full profile bio
responseRate	number	Response rate percentage
responseTime	string	Typical response time
yearsOfExperience	number	Years of pet-care experience
services	object[]	All offered services, each { type, label, price, unit }
acceptedPets	string[]	Accepted pet sizes (small / medium / large / giant)
photos	string[]	Gallery photo URLs

Review record

Emitted only when includeReviews is on. Each review links to its sitter via sitterProfileId, sitterName, and sitterUrl.

{
    "recordType": "review",
    "sitterProfileId": "abc123xyz",
    "sitterName": "Jessica M.",
    "sitterUrl": "https://www.rover.com/members/jessica-m/",
    "author": "Daniel R.",
    "date": "2026-05-22",
    "rating": 5.0,
    "text": "Jessica was wonderful with our anxious rescue. Daily photos and a perfectly happy pup at pickup.",
    "petName": "Cooper",
    "serviceType": "overnight-boarding",
    "serviceTypeLabel": "Dog Boarding",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-06-11T14:30:05Z"
}

Field	Type	Description
recordType	string	Always "review" for these rows
sitterProfileId	string	Profile ID of the reviewed sitter
sitterName	string	Name of the reviewed sitter
sitterUrl	string	Profile URL of the reviewed sitter
author	string	Reviewer's display name
date	string	Date the review was posted
rating	number	Star rating the reviewer gave
text	string	Full review text
petName	string	Name of the pet in the review
serviceType	string	Service slug the review was for
serviceTypeLabel	string	Human-readable service name
scrapedAt	string	ISO-8601 timestamp of extraction

Tips for Best Results

• Start small — set maxResults to 10–50 on your first run to confirm the data fits your needs, then scale up.
• Sweep first, enrich later — leave reviews off for a fast pass to find the sitters you care about, then re-run with includeReviews on just your shortlist. This keeps big runs lean and cost-predictable.
• Use the native filters — minRating, minPrice, and maxPrice are applied before results come back, so you spend nothing on sitters outside your range. Prefer them over filtering afterward.
• Cap reviews on popular sitters — top Star Sitters can carry hundreds of reviews. Keep maxReviewsPerSitter modest (the default 20 is the newest two pages) unless you specifically need the full history.
• Match the service to the slug — serviceType only applies to Search Locations; when you paste a URL, the service comes from the URL itself.
• Mix locations freely — combine several ZIPs and "City, ST" entries in one run; maxResults is the combined cap across all of them.
• Use city + state for accuracy — "Austin, TX" resolves more reliably than a bare city name when the name is shared across states.

Pricing

From $2.20 per 1,000 sitters, plus from $0.40 per 1,000 reviews — undercuts existing Rover scrapers while delivering full profiles and the actual review text they don't. You pay per sitter collected, and only pay the review rate when you switch reviews on. No compute or time-based charges — you pay per sitter and per review, plus a small fixed per-run start fee.

Bronze, Silver, and Gold subscribers pay progressively less. Reviews are off by default, so a run with reviews disabled is billed only at the sitter rate.

Per 1,000 sitters

Sitters	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.26	$0.25	$0.24	$0.22
1,000	$2.60	$2.50	$2.35	$2.20
10,000	$26.00	$25.00	$23.50	$22.00
100,000	$260.00	$250.00	$235.00	$220.00

Per 1,000 reviews

Reviews	No discount	Bronze	Silver	Gold
100	$0.05	$0.05	$0.04	$0.04
1,000	$0.48	$0.45	$0.42	$0.40
10,000	$4.80	$4.50	$4.20	$4.00
100,000	$48.00	$45.00	$42.00	$40.00

Example total cost

Realistic mixes at the Gold tier (higher discount tiers cost less and apply automatically in the Apify Console):

Run	Sitters	Reviews	Gold total
Quick sitter sweep	100	0	$0.22
Sitters + 20 reviews each	100	2,000	$1.02
Deep market pull	1,000	50,000	$22.20
Large lead list	10,000	200,000	$102.00

A "sitter" is one provider row; a "review" is one review row. Platform fees (storage, data transfer) depend on your Apify plan and are additional.

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 is designed for legitimate pet-care market research, competitive analysis, and lead generation. Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and Rover's Terms of Service. Do not use extracted data for spam, harassment, or any unlawful purpose, and handle any personal data (such as reviewer names) responsibly and in line with privacy regulations.