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Try the Rover sitter search API

Searches Rover's public sitter/walker listings by location and service type, returning 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).

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 20 sitters; 16 fields had a value in every checked item and 1 varied between items.

Observed request: GET /rover/search?location=Seattle%2C+WA&service_type=overnight-boarding
Fields with a value in every checked item: slug, profile_url, name, profile_image, rating, review_count, repeat_client_count, years_experience

Sample value profiles: rating: 4.9 to 5, median 5; profile_url: rover.com; is_star_sitter: true in 17 of 17.

Request: GET /rover/search
Cost: 2 credits/request
Auth: apiKey

Rover sitter search API documentation Rover platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rover/search?location=Seattle%2C+WA&service_type=overnight-boarding' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
location	string	Yes	Seattle, WA	Free-text address, city, or zip code, e.g. \
service_type	string	Yes	overnight-boarding	Service category to search. One of: `overnight-boarding`, `overnight-traveling`, `drop-in`, `doggy-day-care`, `dog-walking`.
page	integer	No		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 \

Example JSON 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"
      }
    ]
  }
}

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GET /rover/search

Search Rover sitters and walkers

Response behavior

- `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.

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Required query parameters

location

requiredstring

Free-text address, city, or zip code, e.g. \service_type

requiredstring

Service category to search. One of: `overnight-boarding`, `overnight-traveling`, `drop-in`, `doggy-day-care`, `dog-walking`.

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Sample responseGET

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{
  "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"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Try the Rover sitter search API

What a live request returned

14 Oct 2026: 20 sitters; 16 fields had a value in every checked item and 1 varied between items.

Observed request: GET /rover/search?location=Seattle%2C+WA&service_type=overnight-boarding
Fields with a value in every checked item: slug, profile_url, name, profile_image, rating, review_count, repeat_client_count, years_experience

Sample value profiles: rating: 4.9 to 5, median 5; profile_url: rover.com; is_star_sitter: true in 17 of 17.

Request: GET /rover/search
Cost: 2 credits/request
Auth: apiKey

Rover sitter search API documentation Rover platform page Pricing

Prefilled cURL

curl 'https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1/rover/search?location=Seattle%2C+WA&service_type=overnight-boarding' \
  -H "x-api-key: $CRAWLORA_API_KEY"

Request parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Prefilled value	Description
location	string	Yes	Seattle, WA	Free-text address, city, or zip code, e.g. \
service_type	string	Yes	overnight-boarding	Service category to search. One of: `overnight-boarding`, `overnight-traveling`, `drop-in`, `doggy-day-care`, `dog-walking`.
page	integer	No		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 \

Example JSON 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"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Search Rover sitters and walkers

Response behavior

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{ "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" } ] } }