EnergySage Scraper: Solar Installers, Reviews & Solar Costs

What it does

Three kinds of row from EnergySage, the US solar marketplace: installer companies with their business contacts, licenses and certifications; customer reviews with four sub-ratings; and the local solar cost per watt, system price and payback EnergySage publishes for every state page and 4,882 cities.

{
  "record_type": "installer",
  "installer_id": 99999,
  "name": "Example Solar LLC",
  "profile_url": "https://www.energysage.com/supplier/99999/example-solar-llc/",
  "tier": "Elite",
  "rating": 4.9,
  "review_count": 74,
  "year_established": 2012,
  "hq_city": "Austin",
  "hq_state": "TX",
  "found_in_location": "Texas",
  "rank_in_location": 1,
  "phone": "(512) 555-0142",
  "email": "info@example.com",
  "website": "https://example.com/",
  "services": ["Installation", "Financing"],
  "certifications": ["NABCEP"],
  "workmanship_warranty": "25 years",
  "rating_quality": 5,
  "rating_value": 4.8,
  "states_served": ["TX"],
  "detail_scraped": true
}

Why this one

Use cases

• Sell to solar installers — software, financing, equipment — using the business phone, email and website EnergySage publishes for them.
• Map the US residential solar market by state and city: installers per location, EnergySage tier, years in business and states served.
• Research competing installers through their full review history, with four sub-ratings and the installer's replies.
• Model solar prices and payback with cost per watt, average system size and price, and payback years per state and city.
• Qualify installer partners by license, insurance, NABCEP and manufacturer certifications and workmanship warranty.

Input

Every field has a default, and the defaults are deliberately small so a first run is cheap enough to inspect before you commit to a sweep. This table mirrors the Actor's own input schema field for field.

Output and fill rates

A field being in the schema is not the same as it having a value. The percentages below were counted on real runs; the sample sizes are in Measurements. Anything not listed here is not promised.

Every key is always present. A field that exists but is empty comes back as explicit null, so a parser never has to guess.

Datasets

Different record types go to different datasets, so the main table never carries columns that are blank on most rows.

Pricing

Pay per delivered result. Charges are applied as each row is produced rather than in a lump at the end, so an aborted run bills only for what it actually gave you.

Measurements

Each figure is shown with the method that produced it. A benchmark without a method is a marketing claim wearing a number's clothes.

What it will not do

Stated plainly so you can judge fit before spending anything.

• No per-installer price: EnergySage publishes cost data per location, not per company.
• 200 unique installers appear on EnergySage's location pages. The 6,822-profile directory is mostly not installers, and reading it is slow because profiles are fetched one at a time.
• Alaska has no EnergySage state page.
• Profiles and reviews are read at about 40 per minute; location pages are fast.
• Location data and the default installer list come from local-data.energysage.com, whose robots.txt is `Disallow: /`. Installer profiles and the review API on www.energysage.com are not disallowed by that host's robots.txt.
• EnergySage's terms of use prohibit automated access without its express written permission, outside the RSS and other features it provides for that.
• This is a list of solar companies, not of homeowners looking for solar.

Privacy

• Installers are businesses, and their phone, email and website are the business contacts they publish on EnergySage to win customers.
• Reviewers appear under the public alias EnergySage shows, never an internal user id.
• A phone number or email typed inside a review is replaced with `[phone removed]` or `[email removed]`.
• Removal requests: privacy@actorstack.dev

See also the data removal process.

Guides for this Actor

• EnergySage reviews and installersWhat EnergySage publishes about solar installers, their customer reviews and local solar costs, field by field with sample sizes — and why the 6,822-profile directory is not an installer list.