🔥 Checkatrade Scraper — UK Tradespeople, Reviews & Leads

🎯 The fastest way to pull thousands of vetted UK tradespeople straight from Checkatrade.com — into a spreadsheet, your CRM or Zapier.

Get clean, structured business records for plumbers, roofers, electricians, builders, gardeners, locksmiths and every other trade Checkatrade lists. Every trader comes with ratings, full review history, phone numbers, website, services covered and areas served — ready for lead generation, market analysis or competitive research.

🚀 What Does It Do?

This scraper automatically pulls trader profiles from Checkatrade.com and collects structured, ready-to-use data — no manual browsing needed. Just pick a trade and a location (or paste in URLs) and hit Start.

💡 Two modes of operation:

1. 🔍 Discovery Mode — Give it a trade + city (or paste a Search URL) and it walks every result page, deduplicates traders and extracts a full profile each.
2. 📋 Direct URL Mode — Already have a list of trader profile URLs? Drop them in and the scraper goes straight to the source — perfect for enrichment workflows.

👥 Who Is This For?

🏢 Use Case	💬 How It Helps
📞 Lead Generation Agencies	Build call-out lists of vetted UK tradespeople by trade and postcode in minutes — name, phone, website, areas covered.
📊 Market Researchers	Map the competitive landscape in any UK city: who's there, how they're rated and what services they offer.
🏗️ Trade Suppliers & Wholesalers	Identify high-rated plumbers, roofers and builders to target with B2B offers.
🤖 Data & AI Teams	Fuel directory, comparison and pricing apps with a refreshed snapshot of the UK's leading trades platform.
📰 Journalists & Analysts	Audit trader quality, review patterns and accreditation coverage across cities.
🛠️ Trade Businesses	Benchmark your own profile, ratings and reviews against direct competitors in your service area.

✨ Features

• 🇬🇧 UK-wide coverage — every city, town and postcode area Checkatrade indexes
• 🧰 All trades supported — plumbers, electricians, roofers, builders, gardeners, locksmiths and beyond
• ⭐ Ratings & full review history — average score, total review count and the latest customer reviews with text, rating and date
• 📞 Phone + website + social — clean contact details, with Checkatrade's own footer links automatically filtered out
• 🗺️ Areas served — every neighbourhood, town or region a trader operates in
• 🛡️ Accreditations — Gas Safe, F Gas, NICEIC, UKAS and other scheme badges
• 🎛️ Smart Filters — minimum rating, minimum reviews count, require-phone, max results
• 🔁 Deduplication — every trader returned exactly once, even across multiple search URLs
• ⚡ Fast & Scalable — hundreds of traders per run with full pagination
• 📤 Export Anywhere — Download results as JSON, CSV, Excel, or push to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or your CRM

🎛️ Filters & Options

Option	What It Does
🔗 Search URLs	Paste one or more Checkatrade search URLs (e.g. /Search/Plumber/in/London) — the scraper paginates automatically
🧰 Trade / Category	Trade name to look up (Plumber, Roofer, Electrician, Builder, Painter Decorator…)
📍 Location	UK city, town or postcode area — London, Manchester, Birmingham, BS8, SW1…
🎯 Direct Trader URLs	Skip search and scrape specific trader profile URLs directly
⭐ Minimum Rating	Drop any trader scoring below this value (0–10 scale)
📝 Minimum Reviews	Filter out brand-new traders with too few reviews
📞 Require Phone	Only keep traders that publish a phone number — ideal for outbound lead lists
💬 Extract Customer Reviews	Include the latest reviews with author, date, rating and full body text
🔢 Max Traders	Cap the run at any number of results (0 = unlimited)
🚦 Max Concurrency	Throttle parallel browser pages (1–8) to balance speed vs. anti-bot tolerance
🔁 Max Retries	How many times a failed request should be retried
🌐 Proxy Configuration	UK residential proxies recommended for the cleanest results

📦 What You Get (Output Fields)

Every trader profile includes:

Identity

Field	Example
id	plumblondonltd
name	Plumb London ltd
url	https://www.checkatrade.com/trades/plumblondonltd
trade	Air Conditioning
description	Verified air conditioning in Pinner, rated 9.25/10 from 2422 reviews on Checkatrade.

Contact

Field	Example
phone	07411 527902
phones	["07411 527902"]
email	null (Checkatrade hides email behind a contact form)
website	https://www.plumblondon.com/
socialLinks	[] (Checkatrade does not publish trader social profiles)

Location & Coverage

Field	Example
city	Pinner
areaServed	["Pinner", "Harrow", "Wembley"]
country	GB

Ratings & Reputation

Field	Example
rating	9.25
reviewsCount	2422
bestRating	10
accreditations	["Gas Safe Register", "F Gas Register.com"]

Services

Field	Example
services	["Air Conditioning Installation", "Bathroom Fitter", "Gas Boiler Servicing / Repair"]

Media

Field	Example
logo	https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cNtTeM4Y...=w1024
coverImage	https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XmufevW2...=w1024

Latest Reviews

Field	Example
latestReviews	[{ "author": "Sally F", "date": "2026-05-04", "rating": 10, "body": "..." }]

Run Info

Field	Example
scrapedAt	2026-05-12T10:42:55.797Z

📊 Example Output

{
    "id": "plumblondonltd",
    "name": "Plumb London ltd",
    "url": "https://www.checkatrade.com/trades/plumblondonltd",
    "trade": "Air Conditioning",
    "services": [
        "Air Conditioning Installation",
        "Bathroom Fitter",
        "Gas Boiler Servicing / Repair",
        "Plumbing Repairs"
    ],
    "phone": "07411 527902",
    "phones": ["07411 527902"],
    "email": null,
    "website": "https://www.plumblondon.com/",
    "socialLinks": [],
    "city": "Pinner",
    "areaServed": ["Pinner"],
    "country": "GB",
    "rating": 9.25,
    "reviewsCount": 2422,
    "bestRating": 10,
    "description": "Verified air conditioning in Pinner, rated 9.25/10 from 2422 reviews on Checkatrade.",
    "logo": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/cNtTeM4Y...=w1024",
    "coverImage": "https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/XmufevW2...=w1024",
    "accreditations": ["F Gas Register.com", "Gas Safe Register"],
    "latestReviews": [
        {
            "author": "Sally F",
            "date": "2026-05-04T16:48:04.999Z",
            "rating": 10,
            "body": "Mo from Plumb London did a brilliant job servicing our air conditioning unit — neat, tidy and quick."
        },
        {
            "author": "Rovell G",
            "date": "2026-04-30T17:19:30.695Z",
            "rating": 8.67,
            "body": "Booked the job hassle free. Good job done and received my service certificate promptly through email."
        }
    ],
    "scrapedAt": "2026-05-12T10:42:55.797Z"
}

📋 Dataset Views

The Apify Console gives you 4 ready-made table views to quickly browse your results:

View	What It Shows
📊 Overview	Trader, trade, city, phone, website, rating, reviews, profile URL
📞 Lead Generation	Trader, phone, website, city, areas served, trade, services, rating, reviews
⭐ Reviews	Trader, average rating, total reviews and the full latestReviews array
📋 Full Details	Every single field — the complete dataset

❓ FAQ

🤔 Which UK locations can I search? Anything Checkatrade itself indexes — every major city (London, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Belfast, Bristol, Liverpool, Newcastle, Sheffield, Leeds) plus thousands of towns and postcode areas.

🤔 How many trades are covered? Every category on Checkatrade — Plumber, Roofer, Electrician, Builder, Painter Decorator, Gardener, Locksmith, Handyman, Bathroom Fitter, Kitchen Fitter, Damp Proofer, Gas Boiler Servicing, Driveway Cleaner, Removals and dozens more.

🤔 Do I get full customer reviews? Yes — when Extract Customer Reviews is on, every record includes the latest reviews with author name, date, individual rating and the review body text.

🤔 Can I filter by rating or review count? Absolutely. Use Minimum Rating to drop low-scored traders and Minimum Reviews to filter out brand-new accounts.

🤔 Will it find traders with no phone listed? By default yes. Flip Require Phone Number on to build call-out lead lists that only include traders with a callable number.

🤔 Can I export the data? Yes — JSON, CSV, Excel, XML, HTML, RSS. You can also push data directly to Google Sheets, Zapier, Make, or any webhook/API endpoint.

🤔 How often should I run this? For fresh ratings and reviews, run weekly or monthly. You can schedule automatic runs on Apify with just a few clicks.

🤔 Does it work with proxies? Yes — UK residential proxies are strongly recommended for the cleanest results. The scraper works with Apify's built-in proxy service out of the box.

🛠️ Need Custom Filters or Features?

I'm happy to customize this scraper for your specific needs! 🤝

Whether you need:

• 🎯 Additional filters (specific accreditations, year established, multi-trade businesses, traders with social media presence)
• 📊 Extra data fields or custom output formats
• 🔄 Integration with your CRM, Google Sheets, or database
• ⏰ Scheduled scraping with automatic deduplication and change tracking
• 🌐 Scraping from other UK trades platforms alongside Checkatrade (Trustatrader, MyBuilder, Rated People, Bark)

👉 Don't hesitate to reach out via private message — I respond quickly and I'm always open to building exactly what you need. No request is too small or too specific!

⚖️ Legal & Ethical Use

This scraper collects only publicly available information from Checkatrade.com — the same data any visitor can see by browsing trader profiles. It does not access private member areas, bypass authentication, or harvest customer data. Please use the results responsibly and in compliance with applicable laws and platform terms of service.