LawnStarter API
LawnStarter runs a partner API across three subdomains, with Swagger docs locked behind a login. There is no self-serve signup, public spec, sandbox, or SDK, and no published rate limits. Individual Pros get no API at all for their own jobs, earnings, or ratings.
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LawnStarter scores C+ on the API Report Card. LawnStarter runs a partner API across three subdomains, with Swagger docs locked behind a login. There is no self-serve signup, public spec, sandbox, or SDK, and no published rate limits. Individual Pros get no API at all for their own jobs, earnings, or ratings.
LawnStarter has an official API, but teams routinely hit its limits: gated access, partial coverage, or paid tiers. Most end up supplementing it with exports or an unofficial API layer like Supergood.
LawnStarter is an on-demand outdoor-services marketplace that connects US homeowners with vetted independent lawn care professionals ('Pros') for recurring and one-off lawn mowing, edging, blowing, weed control, fertilization, bush trimming, bed maintenance, leaf removal, yard cleanup, mulching, planting, irrigation, gutter cleaning, pressure washing, and junk removal, 25 distinct service categories in total.
Vertical: misc (closest Supergood neighbors are Field Service Management and Property Management, but the product is fundamentally a consumer two-sided gig-economy marketplace, not vertical operations software). Target market is two-sided. A suburban homeowner in Dallas types their address into lawnstarter.com, sees an instant weekly mowing quote (e.g., $39/visit) based on lot size and ZIP, picks 'every 2 weeks,' enters gate codes and pet notes, and books.
6/10. LawnStarter is the largest pure-play on-demand lawn care brand in the US, especially post-Lawn Love acquisition.
Partially.
Mature, profitable, modernized.
API documentation lives behind a login/registration wall at apidocs.lawnstarter.com; no public OpenAPI spec, no free preview of endpoints, no public sandbox signup. Staging API host at dev-api.lawnstarter.com displays only 'staging' and a logo with no public landing-page documentation. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include GreenPal, TaskEasy, Lawn Love, Thumbtack, Angi, TaskRabbit. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.