Rover API endpoint
Use Crawlora's Rover sitter search API to extract supported public Rover data as structured JSON. This page includes request parameters, cURL examples, response schema, error behavior, credit cost, and a Playground link for testing before integration.
/rover/searchSearches Rover's public sitter/walker listings by location and service type, returning normalized sitter summaries (name, profile image, rating, review count, repeat-client count, years of experience, neighborhood/city/state, starting price, Star Sitter status, and a short bio). Public data sourced from Rover's own server-rendered search pages. Developers commonly use this endpoint for data enrichment, monitoring, research dashboards, internal automation, and agent-native workflows that need repeatable structured public web data. Authentication uses the documented Crawlora headers, and usage is metered with the credit cost shown on this page.
Request parameters are generated from the active endpoint catalog. Required values must be sent before Crawlora can call the upstream public web data source.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Default | Description | Example |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| location | string | Yes | Free-text address, city, or zip code, e.g. \ | ||
| service_type | string | Yes | Service category to search. One of: `overnight-boarding`, `overnight-traveling`, `drop-in`, `doggy-day-care`, `dog-walking`. | ||
| page | integer | No | 1 | 1-based result page. Defaults to 1. | |
| pet_type | string | No | Filter by pet species. One of: `dog`, `cat`. | ||
| min_price | integer | No | Minimum starting rate in whole dollars. | ||
| max_price | integer | No | Maximum starting rate in whole dollars. | ||
| star_sitter_only | boolean | No | Restrict results to Rover's \ | ||
| x-api-key (header) | string | Yes | API key required |
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rover/search?page=1&star_sitter_only=true" \ -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"
Send your scraping API key in the x-api-key header. Use the console API Keys page to rotate or select the active key.
Endpoint usage is metered in credits. The plan prices, included credits, limits, and overage rates below match the active backend billing configuration.
| Plan | Price | Included credits | Daily cap | Rate limit | Overage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | $0/mo | 2,000 | 500 daily credits | 5/min | No overage |
| Starter | $9/mo | 20,000 | 5,000 daily credits | 15/min | $0.75/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Growth | $29/mo | 100,000 | 25,000 daily credits | 45/min | $0.45/1,000 overage credits when enabled |
| Pro | $79/mo | 400,000 | No daily cap | 120/min | $0.30/1,000 overage credits |
| Business | $199/mo | 1,200,000 | No daily cap | 300/min | $0.20/1,000 overage credits |
| Enterprise | $499/mo | 5,000,000 | No daily cap | 1,000/min | $0.12/1,000 overage credits |
This endpoint is executed through Crawlora's managed scraping infrastructure.
Some targets require real browser execution because the data is loaded through JavaScript, dynamic rendering, or interaction-like browser behavior.
For supported endpoints, Crawlora can route requests through a managed browser cluster. This allows Crawlora to execute JavaScript, load dynamic content, apply browser-level request behavior, and normalize the rendered result into JSON.
You do not need to operate your own Playwright, Puppeteer, Chrome, proxy, queue, or retry infrastructure.
- `slug` and the trailing path segment of `profile_url` are the value [`GET /rover/sitter/{slug}`](rover-sitter-profile.md) needs for profile detail lookup. - Rover silently falls back to an IP-derived location instead of erroring when `location` cannot be geocoded. This endpoint detects that fallback and returns a `400` invalid-params error instead of returning results for the wrong location. - A genuine zero-result search returns `sitters: []` with a `200`, distinct from a parser-drift or blocked-page failure, which returns a `503` instead. - `dog-training` and `on-demand-grooming` are not supported service types: Rover routes them through separate, unresearched search flows. Example response: ```json { "code": 200, "msg": "OK", "data": { "location": "Seattle, WA", "service_type": "overnight-boarding", "page": 1, "per_page": 20, "total_count": 2515, "page_count": 126, "sitters": [ { "slug": "tianci-d-staycation-for-your-dog", "profile_url": "https://www.rover.com/members/tianci-d-staycation-for-your-dog/", "name": "Tianci D.", "profile_image": "https://www.rover.com/cf-image-cdn/remote/images/people/AP1xVWYN/hndsxqidyh/original?width=300&height=300&quality=70&fit=cover", "rating": 5.0, "review_count": 19, "repeat_client_count": 2, "years_experience": 20, "neighborhood": "Downtown", "city": "Seattle", "state": "WA", "zip": "98121", "starting_price": 69, "price_unit": "per night", "description": "I've cared for four dogs who all enjoyed long, happy lives past 17.", "is_star_sitter": true, "service_type": "overnight-boarding" } ] } } ```
Crawlora does not silently return bad data when the upstream page cannot be used.
| Status | Common failure case |
|---|---|
| 400 | Invalid input or missing required parameter |
| 429 | Plan or endpoint rate limit exceeded |
| 500 | Internal execution error |
| 502 | Upstream platform failed, returned unusable HTML, or served a challenge page that could not be resolved |
When possible, Crawlora returns structured error context so your integration can retry, back off, or inspect the request.
| Status | Description | Schema |
|---|---|---|
| 400 | Bad Request | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 404 | Not Found | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 500 | Internal Server Error | #/definitions/app.Response |
| 503 | Service Unavailable | #/definitions/app.Response |
{
"code": 200,
"msg": "OK",
"data": {
"location": "Seattle, WA",
"service_type": "overnight-boarding",
"page": 1,
"per_page": 20,
"total_count": 2515,
"page_count": 126,
"sitters": [
{
"slug": "tianci-d-staycation-for-your-dog",
"profile_url": "https://www.rover.com/members/tianci-d-staycation-for-your-dog/",
"name": "Tianci D.",
"profile_image": "https://www.rover.com/cf-image-cdn/remote/images/people/AP1xVWYN/hndsxqidyh/original?width=300&height=300&quality=70&fit=cover",
"rating": 5,
"review_count": 19,
"repeat_client_count": 2,
"years_experience": 20,
"neighborhood": "Downtown",
"city": "Seattle",
"state": "WA",
"zip": "98121",
"starting_price": 69,
"price_unit": "per night",
"description": "I've cared for four dogs who all enjoyed long, happy lives past 17.",
"is_star_sitter": true,
"service_type": "overnight-boarding"
}
]
}
}Request schema
No body schema
Response schema
#/definitions/rover.searchResponseDoc
| Field | Type | Required | Enum | Bounds | Example | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| code | integer | No | 200 | |||
| data | rover.SearchResponse | No | ||||
| data.location | string | No | ||||
| data.page | integer | No | ||||
| data.page_count | integer | No | ||||
| data.per_page | integer | No | ||||
| data.service_type | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters | array | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].city | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].description | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].is_star_sitter | boolean | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].name | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].neighborhood | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].price_unit | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].profile_image | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].profile_url | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].rating | number | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].repeat_client_count | integer | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].review_count | integer | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].service_type | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].slug | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].starting_price | number | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].state | string | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].years_experience | integer | No | ||||
| data.sitters[].zip | string | No | ||||
| data.total_count | integer | No | ||||
| msg | string | No | OK |
Use environment variables for secrets and keep Crawlora API keys server-side.
curl -X GET "https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rover/search?page=1&star_sitter_only=true" \
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