We extract company profiles, service areas, contact details, qualifications, and granular customer reviews from Trustatrader. 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 Trader Profiles objects from trustatrader.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"trader_id": "TT-98432", "company_name": "Smith & Sons Plumbing Ltd", "primary_category": "Plumbers", "phone_number": "020 7946 0192", "website_url": "https://smithplumbinglondon.co.uk", "postcode": "SW1A 1AA", "member_since": "2018-04-12"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Ratings & Reviews objects from trustatrader.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"review_id": "REV-449210", "trader_id": "TT-98432", "overall_rating": 4.8, "cleanliness": 5.0, "value": 4.5, "punctuality": 5.0, "quality": 5.0, "review_date": "2023-11-24"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Qualifications objects from trustatrader.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"trader_id": "TT-98432", "qualification_name": "Gas Safe Registered", "issuing_body": "Gas Safe Register", "verification_status": "Verified", "insurance_type": "Public Liability", "coverage_amount": "2000000"
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Complete list of extractable fields for Service Areas objects from trustatrader.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"trader_id": "TT-98432", "primary_location": "Central London", "radius_miles": 15, "counties_covered": "['Greater London', 'Surrey']", "map_coordinates_lat": 51.5074, "map_coordinates_lng": -0.1278
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Complete list of extractable fields for Search Results objects from trustatrader.com. All fields typed and schema-versioned.
"search_term": "Electrician", "location_query": "Manchester", "position_index": 3, "trader_id": "TT-45129", "company_name": "Sparky Electrics NW", "average_rating": 4.9, "review_count": 142
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Our Trustatrader scraper handles UK location routing, paginated category searches, dynamic contact detail rendering, and nested review extraction - with anti-bot circumvention built in.
Extract company names, descriptions, established dates, and primary trade categories across the entire directory.
Execute JavaScript to extract phone numbers and email addresses hidden behind click-to-reveal elements.
Extract text reviews alongside specific rating criteria including punctuality, quality, value, and cleanliness.
Extract covered postcodes, operating radius, and primary locations to map out trader coverage zones.
Scrape listed accreditations, Gas Safe registrations, and public liability insurance statuses.
Iterate through all UK postcodes and trade categories to build a comprehensive national database.
Extract URLs for portfolio work and previous job images uploaded by traders to their profiles.
Only update records when new reviews are posted or profile contact information changes.
Run one-off bulk exports or configure continuous pipelines at weekly or daily cadences.
Brief in. Clean data out.
Provide postcodes, categories, or trader URLs. We design the extraction schema together.
We configure Scrapy / Playwright crawlers, proxy rotation, and session management for trustatrader.com.
Schema validation, null-rate checks, and data normalisation before full launch.
JSON / CSV / Parquet pushed to your S3 bucket, BigQuery dataset, or Snowflake stage on agreed cadence.
Directory scraping requires navigating rate limits and dynamic element loading. Here is how we maintain stable extraction.
Directory sites monitor request velocity and IP origins. Our crawlers use UK residential ISP proxies with realistic browser fingerprints and randomised request timing to prevent IP bans.
Trustatrader hides phone numbers behind JavaScript events to prevent basic scraping. We run full Playwright browser sessions to trigger these events and capture the rendered contact details.
Search results vary heavily by location. We simulate searches across a comprehensive grid of UK postcodes to ensure complete coverage of all regional tradespeople.
Directory layouts change frequently. Our selector strategy uses multiple fallback chains per field so a minor CSS update does not break your data pipeline.
For continuous monitoring, we maintain a hash index of last-seen values. Subsequent runs only push diffs when new reviews are added or contact details change, reducing compute cost.
B2B suppliers target specific trades with verified contact details to sell wholesale materials or software.
Analysts map trade density and competition levels across UK postcodes to identify underserved regions.
Agencies track client reviews and rating trends across multiple directory platforms for their contractor clients.
Firms verify stated qualifications, Gas Safe registrations, and public liability insurance coverage at scale.
Marketing teams build secondary directories or local search tools using structured baseline data.
Researchers analyse the correlation between service quality scores and perceived value ratings across different trades.
"Trustatrader holds the ground truth for UK local services, but extracting verified contact details and granular review data requires handling dynamic DOM elements and strict rate limits."
Most teams underestimate the investment required: reliable directory scraping requires UK residential proxies, JavaScript rendering for click-to-reveal contact details, and rigorous schema maintenance. DataFlirt absorbs that complexity so your engineers can focus on the analysis - not the infrastructure.
Everything supported by our trustatrader.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 and deduplication. Playwright handles JavaScript rendering for contact details and interaction flows.
We maintain pools of UK residential ISP proxies. Rotation happens per-request to prevent rate limiting and IP blocks.
Pipelines run on AWS Lambda and ECS. Airflow handles scheduling, dependency management, and SLA alerting.
Data delivered to where your team already works — no new tooling required.
About trustatrader.com scraping, legality, and pipeline operations.
Ask us directly →Scraping publicly available information from directories is generally permissible under applicable UK law. DataFlirt targets only public, non-authenticated profile and review data. We do not extract private messages or circumvent authentication walls. Clients should review Trustatrader's ToS and consult legal counsel for specific use cases.
We use Playwright to render the page in a headless browser, locate the click-to-reveal element, trigger the JavaScript event, and extract the resulting phone number from the updated DOM.
Yes. We can scope the pipeline to specific postcodes, counties, or cities, reducing extraction time and focusing only on the geographic areas relevant to your business.
For continuous monitoring pipelines, we can configure daily or weekly runs to capture new reviews and profile updates. Full directory refreshes typically complete within a 24-48 hour window depending on category depth.
Yes. We extract the overall rating as well as the granular scores for initial impression, cleanliness, value, punctuality, and quality for every single review.
Our smallest packages start at a defined category or regional list (typically 5,000-10,000 profiles) with monthly delivery. Contact us with your specific requirements for a scoped quote.
Absolutely. We provide a sample run of up to 500 profiles as part of the pre-engagement scoping process so you can validate schema fit and data quality before signing a contract.
20-minute scoping call. Pilot dataset within the week. Production within two. Whether you need a one-off UK directory dump or a continuous review-monitoring feed - we scope, build, and operate the pipeline. Tell us what you need.
