Thumbtack Reviews

CoreClaw Thumbtack Business Scraper

A CoreClaw Worker that scrapes a public Thumbtack business/profile page and returns:

1. Total number of reviews — e.g. displayed 70 reviews → review_count = 70
2. Number of times hired — e.g. displayed Hired 34 times → hired_count = 34 (or null when Thumbtack does not display it)
3. The latest 5 reviews labeled Hired on Thumbtack — newest → oldest. Reviews without that label are ignored. If fewer than five qualifying reviews exist, however many are available are returned (this is not an error).

Input

Example:

{
  "url": "https://www.thumbtack.com/ca/los-angeles/house-cleaning/example-business/service/123456789"
}

Output

One result row per run (flattened for the CoreClaw result table):

Missing values are null — nothing is fabricated. On failure the Worker pushes an error row (status, error, url) instead.

How it works

• Connects to CoreClaw's remote fingerprint browser via Playwright connectOverCDP, using the CoreClaw-provided PROXY_AUTH and ChromeWs environment variables. No credentials are hardcoded or logged. (Without PROXY_AUTH — local development only — it falls back to launching a local Chromium.)
• Waits for the rendered business content rather than relying on networkidle.
• Review count comes from JSON-LD structured data first, then from the "N reviews" text nearest the page header; comma-formatted numbers are supported.
• Times hired is matched with Hired X time(s) (comma-formatted numbers supported).
• Opens the full reviews section when a "See all reviews" control exists, switches sorting to Most recent when Thumbtack offers a sort control, and keeps loading more reviews (button clicks and lazy-load scrolling) until five Hired on Thumbtack reviews are collected or no more reviews load.
• Each review card is scoped individually — the Hired on Thumbtack label must belong to that specific review. Truncated reviews are expanded ("Read more") before extraction, duplicates are removed via a reviewer|date|text key, and UI labels (Read more, Helpful, Hired on Thumbtack, …) are stripped from review text.

Project files

main.js             Worker entry point
package.json        Node dependencies (playwright-core + CoreClaw SDK deps)
input_schema.json   CoreClaw UI input form
output_schema.json  CoreClaw result columns
sdk.js              CoreClaw SDK base module
sdk_pb.js           CoreClaw SDK data module
sdk_grpc_pb.js      CoreClaw SDK network module

Notes

• Uses only CoreClaw's supported browser/runtime mechanisms — no CAPTCHA bypasses, no authentication, no cookie injection.
• Fewer than five qualifying reviews is a normal result, not an error.