Bark.com Scraper — Service Provider Leads by Category & Location

Scrape verified service-provider profiles from bark.com — the UK-founded services marketplace covering trades, events, business services, tutoring, fitness, and dozens of other categories across the UK, US, Australia, Canada, Ireland, and more.

What is Bark.com?

Bark.com is a lead-generation marketplace: a customer posts a request for a plumber, photographer, tutor, or accountant, and local professionals respond with quotes. Every provider that responds to requests keeps a public profile page with a name, category tags, location, star rating, and review count — a directory of active, reviewed local service businesses.

• Lead generation — Build a contact list of service providers by category and region for B2B outreach
• Market research — Analyze category density, rating distribution, and provider count by region
• Competitive intelligence — Track how many active professionals compete in a given category or location
• Directory/aggregator building — Source structured provider listings for your own local-services product

What data does Bark.com Scraper extract?

• Provider / business name
• Service categories (e.g. "General Plumbing", "Boiler Installation or Replacement")
• Location
• Star rating (1-5) and review count
• Elite Pro status
• Self-written business bio, when the provider filled one in
• Up to 3 recent review snippets (author, rating, date, text)
• Full profile URL

How to scrape Bark.com data

Field	Type	Required	Description
country	String	No	Bark.com locale, e.g. gb, us, au, ca, ie. Defaults to gb.
category	String	No	Category slug or keyword, e.g. plumbers, electricians, photographer. See bark.com/en/gb/services/ for the full list. Defaults to plumbers.
location	String	No	Region slug within the category, e.g. central-london, bristol. Leave empty to walk every region listed for the category.
maxResults	Integer	No	Maximum provider profiles to return (default: 50)
proxyConfiguration	Object	No	Apify Proxy settings — automatic proxy is enough, no anti-bot bypass needed

How discovery works: Bark.com has no public search API and no full paginated directory — its public site is a link graph: a category page (/en/gb/plumbers/) lists every region Bark has active providers in, and each category+region page (/en/gb/plumbers/central-london/) shows a "Popular {Category}" section of real, reviewed providers with a link to their profile. This actor walks that graph: category page → region pages → provider profiles, deduplicating providers that show up in more than one region. Leave location empty to walk multiple regions until maxResults is reached; set it to pull one specific region only.

No login, no cookies, no anti-bot bypass required. bark.com returns a clean 200 response to any request carrying a standard browser User-Agent — no Cloudflare, DataDome, or Akamai challenge was found on listing or profile pages.

Public directory data only. Phone numbers and email addresses are never public on bark.com — providers are only reachable through the site's own "Request quote" / "Contact" flow, which requires being a logged-in buyer. This actor cannot and does not return contact details.

Output

Each provider profile is returned as a structured JSON object:

{
    "providerId": "0Z8EK",
    "name": "PMCG Plumbing and Heating",
    "url": "https://www.bark.com/en/gb/company/pmcg-plumbing-and-heating/0Z8EK/",
    "scrapedAt": "2026-08-13T14:15:45.167Z",
    "categories": [
        "Boiler Installation or Replacement",
        "Boiler Repair or Maintenance",
        "General Plumbing",
        "Central Heating System Installation & Replacement",
        "Boiler Service"
    ],
    "categoryId": "1762",
    "location": "Belfast",
    "country": "GB",
    "rating": 5,
    "reviewCount": 8,
    "isElite": false,
    "bio": "For all your plumbing and heating needs contact PMCG Plumbing and Heating. We cover all Areas...",
    "avatarUrl": "https://d1k8hez1mxkuxw.cloudfront.net/s/avatar_v2/GRaAED/logo/5fad867816a44.png",
    "reviewSnippets": [
        {
            "author": "Susie Robinson",
            "ratingValue": 5,
            "date": "2023-02-11",
            "text": "Had terrible trouble with an old boiler and some previous heating engineers costing me a fortune..."
        }
    ],
    "searchCategory": "plumbers",
    "searchLocation": "belfast"
}

Output fields

Field	Type	Example
providerId	String	"0Z8EK"
name	String	"PMCG Plumbing and Heating"
categories	Array of String	["General Plumbing", "Boiler Service"]
categoryId	String	"1762"
location	String	"Belfast"
country	String	"GB"
rating	Number	5 (1-5 scale; absent when the provider has no reviews yet)
reviewCount	Number	8
isElite	Boolean	false
bio	String	Self-written business description
avatarUrl	String	Profile logo/avatar image URL
reviewSnippets	Array of Object	Up to 3 recent reviews (author, rating, date, text)
searchCategory / searchLocation	String	Input echo — which category/region discovered this provider
url	String	Full profile URL
scrapedAt	String	ISO 8601 timestamp

Cost estimate

This actor makes roughly 2 requests per result (one listing-page request shared across ~10-15 providers, plus one profile-page request per provider) and uses no paid third-party unblocking service. At standard Apify pricing that's well under 1 compute unit per 20 providers — one of the cheaper actors in the fleet to run. Usage cost only settles once a run reports SUCCEEDED — reading the dataset mid-run (before the run finishes) will undercount what you're actually charged.

Limitations

• rating/reviewCount are absent for providers with zero reviews yet — bark.com doesn't render a rating block at all in that case, this is real data, not a scraping gap
• The "Popular {Category}" section per region surfaces bark.com's own featured/active providers, not every professional ever registered in that category+region — this is a directory of active, visible providers, not a guaranteed-complete registry
• location values are free text as shown on the profile (often a city, sometimes "Multiple locations")
• Data is scraped from the public website and may change without notice
• Respect bark.com's terms of service and use responsibly

Frequently asked questions

Can I get provider phone numbers or emails? No. bark.com never publishes contact details — they're only exchanged through the site's own lead-gen "Request quote" flow after a buyer signs in. This actor returns public directory data only.

Why do some providers have no rating? bark.com only renders the rating/review block once a provider has at least one review. A missing rating means the provider is newly listed or has zero reviews — not a parsing error.

What happens if I leave location empty? The actor fetches the category page, discovers every region bark.com lists providers under for that category, and walks region pages one by one (deduplicating providers) until maxResults is reached.

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Disclaimer

This actor collects only publicly available business listing data from bark.com for legitimate use such as lead generation and market research. Respect bark.com's terms of service and applicable data-protection law (including UK GDPR/PECR rules on unsolicited contact) when using the output.

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