Rover API
No public API. Rover's own Q&A community confirms there is no developer program, OAuth flow, webhooks, or endpoint docs. Sitters cannot export bookings or earnings programmatically, so tax tools resort to manual copy and paste; the only third-party access is unofficial scrapers.
Frequently asked questions
Rover scores D on the API Report Card. No public API. Rover's own Q&A community confirms there is no developer program, OAuth flow, webhooks, or endpoint docs. Sitters cannot export bookings or earnings programmatically, so tax tools resort to manual copy and paste; the only third-party access is unofficial scrapers.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Rover (A Place For Rover, Inc., Seattle, WA, founded 2011) is the world's largest online marketplace for pet care, connecting pet parents with a network of independent pet sitters and dog walkers across the US, Canada, and Europe.
Consumer (C2C) pet-care marketplace, pet owners (demand side) and independent pet sitters/dog walkers (supply side, treated as 1099 gig workers). Pet owners create an account, enter ZIP code and service type (boarding, house sitting, drop-in, day care, walking), filter by price/dates/dog size/reviews, message and book a sitter, store payment via Stripe-tokenized card, receive photo/video updates and a 'Rover Card' report during the stay, and leave a star rating + review after.
Very high in US pet sitting/dog walking. Rover is the consumer category leader by a wide margin over Wag! (which takes ~40% commission vs. Rover's 20%), Care.com (pet care is one vertical among childcare/senior care/cleaning), and regional players like Fetch! Pet Care.
For sitters, Rover is the system of record for: client/pet contact and medical info, message threads, booking calendar, completed-stay history, star ratings and reviews, background-check status, Stripe-payout history, gross processed payments / 1099-K data, refund and dispute outcomes, RoverProtect claim history, and the sitter's public profile and rate card.
Mature, modern consumer product.
Rover Q&A Community thread explicitly asks whether Rover has a public API; no official endpoint exists for sitters or third parties to pull bookings, earnings, messages, or reviews. Sitters cannot programmatically export earnings/booking data for tax prep; third-party tax tools (Keeper, Everlance, 1800Accountant, hellobonsai) all instruct users to manually copy/paste from the Rover withdrawal history page. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Wag!, Care.com, Fetch! Pet Care, TrustedHousesitters, PetBacker, Pawshake. 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.