We extract verified tradesperson profiles, contact details, service areas, accreditations, and review scores from Checkatrade. Delivered as clean JSON, CSV, or Parquet to S3, BigQuery, or Snowflake on your cadence.
Structured, schema-consistent data across all major object types — delivered clean, typed, and ready to query.
Complete list of extractable fields for Business Profiles objects from checkatrade.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"profile_id": "CT-84921", "business_name": "Apex Plumbing & Heating", "trade_category": "Plumber", "phone_number": "07700 900123", "postcode": "SW1A 1AA", "vetted_status": true, "guarantee_status": "Guaranteed up to £1000", "established_year": 2014
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Complete list of extractable fields for Reviews & Ratings objects from checkatrade.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"review_id": "REV-992314", "profile_id": "CT-84921", "overall_score": 9.8, "reliability_score": 10, "tidiness_score": 9, "workmanship_score": 10, "review_text": "Arrived on time and fixed the leak within an hour.", "verified_customer": true
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Complete list of extractable fields for Service Areas objects from checkatrade.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"profile_id": "CT-84921", "primary_location": "London", "radius_miles": 15, "covered_postcodes": "['SW1', 'SW2', 'W1', 'WC1']", "call_out_fee": false, "emergency_service": true, "availability_status": "Available within 24 hours"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Accreditations objects from checkatrade.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"profile_id": "CT-84921", "accreditation_name": "Gas Safe Register", "verified_by_checkatrade": true, "membership_number": "654321", "insurance_verified": true, "insurance_expiry": "2025-11-30", "trade_association": "CIPHE"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from checkatrade.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"keyword": "Electrician", "location_searched": "M1 1AA", "position": 3, "profile_id": "CT-11092", "business_name": "Manchester Sparky Ltd", "overall_rating": 9.9, "review_count": 412, "promoted_listing": false, "scraped_at": "2024-08-12T14:30:00Z"
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Our Checkatrade scraper handles location-based search grids, pagination limits, and dynamic contact detail rendering - with residential proxies and anti-bot circumvention built in.
Business name, description, contact details, established year, and trade categories - scraped at the individual profile level.
Extract overall ratings alongside specific scores for reliability, tidiness, courtesy, and workmanship across all historical reviews.
Execute JavaScript clicks to reveal obfuscated phone numbers and email addresses hidden behind interactive elements.
Capture primary operating locations, radius limits, and specific postcode coverage to map trade density geographically.
Extract verified qualifications, Gas Safe registrations, trade association memberships, and public liability insurance status.
Track organic versus promoted positions for specific trades across thousands of UK postcodes.
Download URLs for past work galleries and company logos directly from the profile media tabs.
Bypass regional blocking by routing all requests through verified UK residential IP pools.
Run one-off directory exports or configure continuous pipelines at weekly or monthly cadences with change-detection diffing.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide target trades, postcode lists, or specific business criteria. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, UK proxy rotation, session management, and DOM interaction for checkatrade.com.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, location accuracy testing, and sample profiles before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
Directory scraping requires navigating strict rate limits and location spoofing. Here is how we stay resilient.
Checkatrade aggressively blocks non-UK IP addresses and datacentre traffic. Our crawlers use UK residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised request timing to blend in with standard consumer traffic.
Phone numbers and direct contact methods are often obfuscated in the DOM until a user interacts. We run full Playwright browser sessions to execute these events, capturing the raw contact data that simple HTTP requests miss entirely.
Extracting the entire UK directory requires precise geographical querying. We deploy a mathematical grid of UK postcodes to ensure exhaustive search coverage without duplicating extraction efforts across overlapping radii.
For large directory catalogues, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values per profile. Subsequent runs only push diffs, reducing compute cost and downstream processing load. You get a clean changelog.
Every run emits structured logs to our observability stack. We alert on null-rate spikes, layout changes, and coverage drops, responding before you notice data degradation.
Software vendors and wholesalers extract verified contact details to pitch CRM tools, materials, and services to active tradespeople.
Agencies track search rankings across specific postcodes to monitor competitor visibility and optimise client profiles.
Analysts map trade density, call-out fee structures, and service availability to identify underserved regions across the UK.
Franchises and large contracting firms aggregate review scores across hundreds of regional profiles into centralized dashboards.
Procurement teams scrape accreditation and insurance expiry dates to ensure their supplier network remains compliant.
Property management companies build internal databases of vetted contractors based on specific trade categories and emergency call-out availability.
"Checkatrade holds the definitive graph of UK tradespeople, but extracting it requires navigating aggressive rate limits and complex location grids."
Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable Checkatrade scraping requires UK residential proxies, full JavaScript rendering for contact reveals, postcode grid traversal, and daily selector maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis.
Everything supported by our checkatrade.com scraper — rendered SPA elements, auth walls, rate-limit evasion and beyond.
Open-source tooling on proven cloud infra — no vendor lock-in, full observability.
Scrapy handles crawl orchestration, deduplication, and retry logic. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering, cookie sessions, and interaction flows. Combined via scrapy-playwright middleware.
We maintain pools of residential ISP proxies across UK regions. Rotation happens per-request with sticky sessions where required. IP score monitoring prevents blacklisted pool contamination.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda (burst) and ECS (sustained). Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting. All state stored in managed Postgres.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About checkatrade.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available directory information is generally permissible under UK law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated profile, contact, and review data. We do not extract personal data beyond business contact details, circumvent authentication walls, or violate GDPR. Clients should review platform terms and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.
We use UK residential ISP proxies, full Playwright browser sessions with realistic fingerprints, and request timing modelled on human behaviour. Our selectors have multi-layer fallback chains so DOM changes do not break the pipeline.
Yes. We use headless browser automation to trigger the necessary JavaScript events that reveal obfuscated contact details on tradesperson profiles.
Full directory refreshes at a weekly or monthly cadence complete within a defined window. Change detection ensures downstream systems only process modified records.
Our smallest packages start at a defined geographical radius or specific trade category list with weekly delivery. For full UK directory extraction, we price based on volume and delivery frequency.
Yes. We extract the full review corpus including text, date, and granular scores for reliability, tidiness, courtesy, and workmanship.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off UK directory dump or continuous local SEO tracking - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
