🐕 PetFinder Pet Listings Scraper

Extract detailed information about adoptable pets from PetFinder.com, including dogs, cats, and other animals available for adoption.

🎯 Use Cases

• Monitor pet adoption listings in specific locations
• Analyze pet adoption trends and availability
• Track shelter and rescue organization activities
• Research breed availability and distribution
• Gather data for animal welfare studies

✨ Features

• 🔍 Scrape pet listings from custom search URLs
• 📍 Get detailed location data including coordinates
• 🏷️ Extract comprehensive pet information (breed, age, size, etc.)
• 📸 Collect pet photos and media links
• 🏢 Gather organization and shelter contact details
• ⚡ Fast and efficient pagination handling
• 🛡️ Built-in proxy rotation support

💎 Output Data

Each record contains:

• Pet basic information (ID, name, type, status)
• Detailed breed information
• Age, sex, and size details
• Publication date
• Organization/shelter information
• Location data with coordinates
• Photo URLs
• Contact information

🔧 Input Parameters

• searchUrls: Array of PetFinder search URLs to scrape
• maxItems: Maximum number of items to scrape (optional)
• proxyConfiguration: Proxy settings (optional)

📝 Notes

• Respects PetFinder.com's robots.txt and terms of service
• Includes built-in delays to prevent overloading the site
• Handles pagination automatically
• Supports proxy configuration for better reliability

Input Example

A full explanation of an input example in JSON.

1{
2    "searchUrls": [
3        "https://www.petfinder.com/search/dogs-for-adoption/us/ca/los-angeles/?distance=Anywhere&page=2&size%5B0%5D=Large"
4    ],
5    "maxItems": 70
6}

Output sample

The results will be wrapped into a dataset which you can always find in the Storage tab. Here's an excerpt from the data you'd get if you apply the input parameters above:

And here is the same data but in JSON. You can choose in which format to download your data: JSON, JSONL, Excel spreadsheet, HTML table, CSV, or XML.

1[
2    {
3        "searchUrl": "https://www.petfinder.com/search/dogs-for-adoption/us/ca/los-angeles/?distance=Anywhere&page=2&size%5B0%5D=Large",
4        "petId": 75181194,
5        "url": "https://www.petfinder.com/dog/rocky-75181194/ca/los-angeles/city-of-los-angeles-north-central-animal-shelter-ca763/",
6        "type": "Dog",
7        "breed": {
8            "primary": "Pit Bull Terrier",
9            "isMixed": false,
10            "label": "Pit Bull Terrier"
11        },
12        "basicInfo": {
13            "name": "ROCKY",
14            "age": "Young",
15            "sex": "Male",
16            "size": "Large",
17            "status": "adoptable",
18            "publishedAt": "2025-02-14T08:28:30+00:00",
19            "organizationId": "A2183062"
20        },
21        "photos": {
22            "primary": "https://dl5zpyw5k3jeb.cloudfront.net/photos/pets/75181194/1/?bust=1740057824",
23            "all": [
24                "https://dl5zpyw5k3jeb.cloudfront.net/photos/pets/75181194/1/?bust=1740057824"
25            ]
26        },
27        "location": {
28            "address": "3201 Lacy Street",
29            "city": "Los Angeles",
30            "state": "CA",
31            "postalCode": "90031",
32            "coordinates": {
33                "latitude": 34.0835506,
34                "longitude": -118.2188081
35            }
36        },
37        "organization": {
38            "name": "City of Los Angeles North Central Animal Shelter",
39            "displayId": "CA763",
40            "contact": "(888) 452-7381"
41        }
42    },
43    ...
44]

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