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🥾 Hiking Project Scraper

👁 Hiking Project Scraper

❓ What is this scraper?

This scraper extracts structured hiking trail data from Hiking Project — a crowd-sourced platform designed to help people discover and explore trails.

Hiking Project’s mission is to inspire outdoor exploration by providing accurate, community-driven trail information. The platform allows users to contribute trails, photos, ratings, and updates, while ensuring quality through content review.

The extracted data is normalized into a structured format, making it easy to use for analysis, integrations, or storage.

⚡ Why this scraper?

Hiking Project provides rich, structured information about hiking trails across different regions. This scraper allows you to:

• Discover trails based on search queries and locations
• Build datasets of hiking routes and trail metadata
• Analyze trail difficulty, elevation, and terrain
• Aggregate trail information for apps or mapping platforms
• Track ratings and publicly available trail details at scale

📥 Input

{
"maxItems":5,
"startUrls":[
{
"url":"https://www.hikingproject.com/search?q=massachusetts&type=routes"
}
],
"proxyConfiguration":{
"useApifyProxy":false
}
}

📤 Output

Each trail is returned as a structured JSON object:

{
"url":"https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7118864/cape-cod-rail-trail",
"title":"Cape Cod Rail Trail",
"difficulty":"Easy",
"summary":"“A trail through six Cape Cod cities. ”",
"description":"The terrain is very flat and there is little challenge in the trail, and a route from start to end one way takes around three hours.",
"stats":{
"distanceMiles":"29.6",
"trailType":"Point to Point",
"highElevation":"109'",
"lowElevation":"4'",
"elevationGain":"468'",
"elevationLoss":"456'",
"avgGrade":"1%",
"maxGrade":"6%"
},
"rating":{
"value":"5.0",
"votes":"1",
"rankInArea":"#2",
"rankInState":"#80",
"rankOverall":"#6,515"
},
"location":{
"breadcrumb":[
"Areas",
"MA",
"Cape Cod and the Islands"
],
"latitude":"41.67770625",
"longitude":"-70.24918947"
},
"dogs":"Off-leash",
"features":"Commonly Backpacked · Views",
"familyFriendly":"Lots of picnic tables, restaurants, and restrooms near the trail.",
"landManager":{
"name":"MA DCR - Nickerson State Park",
"url":"https://www.mass.gov/locations/nickerson-state-park"
},
"sharedBy":{
"name":"Andrii Rosa",
"url":"https://www.hikingproject.com/user/202133725/andrii-rosa"
},
"photos":[],
"conditions":"Unknown",
"nearbyRoutes":[
{
"url":"https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7036161/pine-tree-trail",
"name":"Pine Tree Trail",
"difficulty":"blue",
"distanceMiles":"3.7 mi",
"elevationGain":"216' Up",
"elevationLoss":"216' Down",
"thumbnail":"https://hikingproject.com/assets/photos/hike/7040695_sqsmall_1555094306.jpg?cache=1777111857",
"location":"Pocasset, MA"
},
{
"url":"https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7035931/wellfleet-audobon-loop",
"name":"Wellfleet Audobon Loop",
"difficulty":"greenblue",
"distanceMiles":"1.7 mi",
"elevationGain":"57' Up",
"elevationLoss":"58' Down",
"thumbnail":"https://hikingproject.com/assets/photos/hike/7036590_sqsmall_1555022636.jpg?cache=1777111667",
"location":"North E…, MA"
},
{
"url":"https://www.hikingproject.com/trail/7032322/pamet-loop",
"name":"Pamet Loop",
"difficulty":"blueblack",
"distanceMiles":"5.4 mi",
"elevationGain":"239' Up",
"elevationLoss":"239' Down",
"thumbnail":"https://hikingproject.com/assets/photos/hike/7033232_sqsmall_1554997521.jpg?cache=1777111517",
"location":"Truro, MA"
}
]
}

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Image Credit

Image Credit: https://www.hikingproject.com/