TrustATrader Scraper

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Extract UK trade professionals from TrustATrader — the UK's leading vetted trades directory. Search by keyword and location, browse by trade category, or scrape individual trader profile pages.

Features

• Search mode — find traders by keyword (e.g. "plumber", "electrician") and location
• By Trade mode — browse any of 20 trade categories filtered by UK town or city
• Trader Profile mode — fetch detailed profiles by URL including phone number, description, and rating
• By URL mode — scrape any TrustATrader category or profile URL directly
• Pagination — automatically pages through all results up to maxItems
• Optional profile enrichment — fetch each trader's full profile page for phone number, logo, and extended description

Input

Example Inputs

Search by keyword and location:

{
"mode":"search",
"searchQuery":"plumber",
"location":"London",
"maxItems":50
}

Browse by trade category:

{
"mode":"byTrade",
"trade":"electricians",
"location":"Manchester",
"maxItems":100
}

Fetch specific trader profiles:

{
"mode":"traderProfile",
"startUrls":[
"https://www.trustatrader.com/traders/some-trader-london"
]
}

With full profile enrichment:

{
"mode":"search",
"searchQuery":"builder",
"location":"Birmingham",
"maxItems":30,
"fetchProfiles":true
}

Output

Each record represents one UK trade professional:

{
"name":"J Smith Plumbing",
"trade":"Plumbers",
"rating":9.8,
"reviewCount":142,
"location":"London",
"city":"London",
"phone":"020 1234 5678",
"description":"Fully qualified plumber covering all of Central London...",
"logoUrl":"https://www.trustatrader.com/...",
"verified":true,
"url":"https://www.trustatrader.com/traders/j-smith-plumbing",
"slug":"j-smith-plumbing",
"scrapedAt":"2025-01-15T10:30:00+00:00"
}

Fields are omit-empty — only fields with real values are included in each record.

Trade Categories

The following 20 trade categories are supported for byTrade mode:

plumbers, electricians, builders, decorators, roofers, plasterers, gas-engineers, landscapers, carpet-fitters, tilers, joiners, carpenters, driveway-contractors, kitchen-fitters, bathroom-fitters, double-glazing, locksmiths, painters, loft-conversions, extensions

Performance

• Search and category pages: ~20–50 traders per page
• With fetchProfiles: false (default): fast, ~100 traders/minute
• With fetchProfiles: true: full data including phone, ~30 traders/minute
• Respects site rate limits with automatic retries on 429/503

FAQs

Does this require API keys or login? No. TrustATrader is publicly accessible. No authentication, cookies, or proxy required.

What UK locations are supported? Any UK town, city, or area that TrustATrader indexes — London, Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Cardiff, and hundreds more.

Why does phone only appear sometimes? Phone numbers are only on individual trader profile pages. Enable fetchProfiles: true or use mode: traderProfile to retrieve them.

What is the verified field? TrustATrader vets all its traders — the verified: true flag indicates the trader has passed their checks.

What is byUrl mode for? Paste any TrustATrader category URL (e.g. /plumbers-in-london) or profile URL directly if you want to scrape a specific page not covered by other modes.

How does pagination work? The scraper automatically follows ?page=N pagination until maxItems is reached or no more results are found.