🐕 PetFinder Pet Listings Scraper

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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.

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

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.

[
{
"searchUrl":"https://www.petfinder.com/search/dogs-for-adoption/us/ca/los-angeles/?distance=Anywhere&page=2&size%5B0%5D=Large",
"petId":75181194,
"url":"https://www.petfinder.com/dog/rocky-75181194/ca/los-angeles/city-of-los-angeles-north-central-animal-shelter-ca763/",
"type":"Dog",
"breed":{
"primary":"Pit Bull Terrier",
"isMixed":false,
"label":"Pit Bull Terrier"
},
"basicInfo":{
"name":"ROCKY",
"age":"Young",
"sex":"Male",
"size":"Large",
"status":"adoptable",
"publishedAt":"2025-02-14T08:28:30+00:00",
"organizationId":"A2183062"
},
"photos":{
"primary":"https://dl5zpyw5k3jeb.cloudfront.net/photos/pets/75181194/1/?bust=1740057824",
"all":[
"https://dl5zpyw5k3jeb.cloudfront.net/photos/pets/75181194/1/?bust=1740057824"
]
},
"location":{
"address":"3201 Lacy Street",
"city":"Los Angeles",
"state":"CA",
"postalCode":"90031",
"coordinates":{
"latitude":34.0835506,
"longitude":-118.2188081
}
},
"organization":{
"name":"City of Los Angeles North Central Animal Shelter",
"displayId":"CA763",
"contact":"(888) 452-7381"
}
},
 ...
]

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