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Care.com covers child care, senior care, pet care, housekeeping, and tutoring verticals — plus family-posted job listings and business/center directories (child care centers, senior living communities), which return a different record shape (see README).", "default": "babysitters" }, "customCategorySlug": { "title": "Custom category slug (advanced, overrides Category)", "type": "string", "description": "Care.com has 150+ niche category pages beyond the dropdown above (e.g. `dog-sitters`, `newborn-nannies`, `overnight-nannies`, `date-night-babysitters`, `home-organizers`, `independent-living`). Paste any slug from a care.com// URL here to override the Category dropdown. Leave empty to use Category. 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Records with no reviews are dropped if this is set." }, "includeMarketStats": { "title": "Include local market stats record (mode=searchCaregivers)", "type": "boolean", "description": "When true, emit one extra summary record per search with local-market data for the chosen category+city: total caregiver count, average years of experience, average review rating/count, and min/avg/max hourly rate (identified by `recordType: \"marketStats\"`, separate from the caregiver records). Only applies to caregiver categories — never emitted for Caregiver Job Postings or Child Care Centers/Assisted Living.", "default": true }, "backgroundCheckOnly": { "title": "Background-checked only", "type": "boolean", "description": "Only emit caregivers with a completed Care.com background/care check (caregiver categories only — has no effect on Caregiver Job Postings or Child Care Centers/Assisted Living categories).", "default": false }, "availabilityFilter": { "title": "Availability filter (mode=getProfiles only)", "enum": [ "any", "fullTime", "partTime" ], "type": "string", "description": "Only emit caregivers whose disclosed availability matches. Care.com only discloses this on individual profile pages (mode=getProfiles) — it is never populated by searchCaregivers, so setting this to anything but Any while searching will drop every record.", "default": "any" }, "maxItems": { "title": "Max items", "minimum": 1, "maximum": 2000, "type": "integer", "description": "Hard cap on emitted records.", "default": 60 } } }, "runsResponseSchema": { "type": "object", "properties": { "data": { "type": "object", "properties": { "id": { "type": "string" }, "actId": { "type": "string" }, "userId": { "type": "string" }, "startedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "finishedAt": { "type": "string", "format": "date-time", "example": "2025-01-08T00:00:00.000Z" }, "status": { "type": "string", "example": "READY" }, "meta": { "type": "object", "properties": { "origin": { "type": "string", "example": "API" }, "userAgent": { "type": "string" } } }, "stats": { "type": "object", "properties": { "inputBodyLen": { "type": "integer", "example": 2000 }, "rebootCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "restartCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "resurrectCount": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "computeUnits": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "options": { "type": "object", "properties": { "build": { "type": "string", "example": "latest" }, "timeoutSecs": { "type": "integer", "example": 300 }, "memoryMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 1024 }, "diskMbytes": { "type": "integer", "example": 2048 } } }, "buildId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultKeyValueStoreId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultDatasetId": { "type": "string" }, "defaultRequestQueueId": { "type": "string" }, "buildNumber": { "type": "string", "example": "1.0.0" }, "containerUrl": { "type": "string" }, "usage": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 1 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } }, "usageTotalUsd": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "usageUsd": { "type": "object", "properties": { "ACTOR_COMPUTE_UNITS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATASET_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_WRITES": { "type": "number", "example": 0.00005 }, "KEY_VALUE_STORE_LISTS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_READS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "REQUEST_QUEUE_WRITES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_INTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "DATA_TRANSFER_EXTERNAL_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_RESIDENTIAL_TRANSFER_GBYTES": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 }, "PROXY_SERPS": { "type": "integer", "example": 0 } } } } } } } } } }