pet-care-provider-shortlisting

Build pet-care or dog-training shortlists from Crawlora public Rover listings and profiles. Use to compare advertised services, starting rates, local fit, experience claims, and sampled reviews with price units, availability, badges, and safety/qualification limits preserved.

Access and scope

Set CRAWLORA_API_KEY to your Crawlora key. Prefer the listed Crawlora MCP tools when connected; otherwise use the bundled scripts/crawlora.sh, which sends x-api-key to https://api.crawlora.net/api/v1. Read reference/endpoints.md for exact methods and parameters. Check application code as well as HTTP status; payloads are inside data. Stop on authentication errors, back off on 429, and retry a transient upstream failure once. Bound calls/pages by the requested scope and credit budget. Retain source IDs, URLs, source dates, and observation/crawl times separately.

Compare public providers against the user's pet/service needs, area, budget, dates, and practical constraints. A listing shortlist is not a booking, safety certification or clinical/training recommendation for an individual animal.

Discover the correct service and verify profile identity

1. Sitter/walker search requires location and one of overnight-boarding, overnight-traveling, drop-in, doggy-day-care, dog-walking. Dog training uses the separate trainer-search/profile routes; it is not a sitter service code. Use supported pet_type and rate filters only where documented.
2. Resolve returned profile slugs and canonical URLs before detail. Sitter and trainer namespaces differ. Match location/service explicitly; a failed geocode does not justify using unrelated IP-derived results. Unknown or incomplete location evidence remains a qualification gap.
3. Preserve advertised services, price/unit, method/skill tags, experience claims, rating/review counts, repeat-client signals and public profile excerpts. A sitter can offer several separately priced services, while trainer search shows a session starting rate rather than a complete package price.
4. There is no date-based inventory/calendar request in these selected routes. The user's dates should appear as a question to confirm, not an invented search parameter or guaranteed vacancy. Profiles show public review excerpts, not every review or the provider's complete client history.

sh

scripts/crawlora.sh /rover/search location="Seattle, WA" service_type=dog-walking pet_type=dog page=1
scripts/crawlora.sh /rover/trainer-search location="Seattle, WA"
# Follow a returned sitter/trainer slug into its matching public profile route.

Compare service terms and unresolved care requirements

Preserve currency and market context; an ambiguous currency symbol does not establish a verified conversion basis. Keep per-night, per-walk, per-visit, per-day, per-session and package pricing separate. Multiply only a verified unit and the user's declared quantity, marking extras, additional pets, duration, holiday rates, taxes/fees, cancellation and travel as unknown unless supported. A starting price is not a checkout quote. Training methodology/credentials and years of experience are provider claims; Star Sitter status, ratings and repeat-client counts do not independently verify qualifications, background checks, insurance, suitability or a safe outcome.

Build a requirement matrix with supported/unclear/not-observed states, source excerpts and questions for availability, handling needs, supervision, emergency arrangements or requested medication assistance. Do not invent certifications, medical competence, personal attributes, household conditions or exact residential addresses. A need requiring professional veterinary input cannot be resolved from a public listing alone.

Return a bounded provider shortlist with service/price basis, locality, attributed experience/review evidence, date questions and missing criteria. Use the user's needs rather than a universal popularity ranking. Do not message providers, share pet/home/medical details, submit bookings, pay or alter accounts unless requested.