BetaList Startups Scraper with Contacts

Collect structured startup profiles from BetaList in clean JSON. Discover startups by keyword, topic, region or the latest feed, or paste exact BetaList URLs. Every record carries the startup profile plus optional contact enrichment: the resolved company website, social profile links, public emails and phone numbers, so you can build prospect lists and market maps without manual research.

Why This Scraper?

• Rich profiles: name, tagline, full description, topics, regions, feature date, logo and screenshots, plus the resolved company website.
• Contacts built in: turn on contact enrichment to capture founder and company social links (LinkedIn, X, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and more), public emails and phone numbers from each startup's own site.
• Two ways to source: keyword search, topic pages, region pages and the latest feed, or paste any BetaList URL (feed, search, topic/browse, region, or a single startup).
• Deep coverage: collects results across multiple result pages up to your chosen limit.
• Filters: boosted-only, and feature-date windows.
• Predictable output: one flat JSON record per startup, ready for CRM, analytics and ETL pipelines.

Data You Get

Sample shape: values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live listing.

Field	Example
name	Sample Startup
one_liner	A short one-line pitch for the product
description	Full description text appears here when detail pages are fetched.
url	https://betalist.com/startups/sample-startup
website_url	https://sample-startup.example.com
website_domain	sample-startup.example.com
boosted	false
featured_at	2026-01-01
topic_names	["Artificial Intelligence", "Productivity"]
regions	[{ "name": "California", "slug": "california" }]
primary_image_url	https://resize.imagekit.co/00000000/plain/s3://betalist-production/000000
contacts.emails	["hello@example.com"]
contacts.phone_numbers	["+10000000000"]
contacts.social_media	{ "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example" }
id	00000001

How to Use

Search by keyword:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": ["fintech", "ai agents"],
  "maxItems": 50
}

Search a topic with contact enrichment:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "topic": "artificial-intelligence",
  "getContacts": true,
  "fetchDetails": true,
  "maxItems": 25
}

Search a region, boosted only:

{
  "mode": "search",
  "region": "california",
  "boostedOnly": true,
  "maxItems": 20
}

Paste BetaList URLs:

{
  "mode": "url",
  "urls": [
    "https://betalist.com/topics/artificial-intelligence",
    "https://betalist.com/startups/sample-startup"
  ],
  "maxItems": 30
}

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search or url.
queries	array	["ai"]	Keywords to search (search mode).
topic	string	n/a	Topic slug or browse path (search mode).
region	string	n/a	Region slug (search mode).
boostedOnly	boolean	false	Keep only boosted startups.
featuredAfter	string	n/a	Keep startups featured on or after this date (YYYY-MM-DD); needs fetchDetails.
featuredBefore	string	n/a	Keep startups featured on or before this date (YYYY-MM-DD); needs fetchDetails.
urls	array	example	BetaList URLs to collect (url mode).
fetchDetails	boolean	true	Open each profile page for the full record.
getContacts	boolean	false	Visit the startup website for emails, phones and social links.
maxItems	integer	20	Max startups to save (0 = unlimited). Main limit.
maxPages	integer	200	Safety ceiling on pages per source.
proxy	object	Apify Proxy	Connection settings.

Output Example

Sample shape: values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live listing.

{
  "type": "startup",
  "id": 10000001,
  "url": "https://betalist.com/startups/sample-startup",
  "slug": "sample-startup",
  "name": "Sample Startup",
  "one_liner": "A short one-line pitch for the product",
  "short_description": "A short one-line pitch for the product",
  "description": "Full description text appears here when detail pages are fetched.",
  "visit_url": "https://betalist.com/startups/sample-startup/visit",
  "website_url": "https://sample-startup.example.com",
  "website_domain": "sample-startup.example.com",
  "boosted": false,
  "featured_at": "2026-01-01",
  "featured_date_label": "January 1, 2026",
  "topics": [{ "name": "Artificial Intelligence", "slug": "artificial-intelligence", "url": "https://betalist.com/browse/ai/artificial-intelligence" }],
  "topic_names": ["Artificial Intelligence"],
  "image_urls": ["https://resize.imagekit.co/00000000/plain/s3://betalist-production/000000"],
  "primary_image_url": "https://resize.imagekit.co/00000000/plain/s3://betalist-production/000000",
  "logo_url": "https://cdn.betalist.com/000000",
  "regions": [{ "name": "California", "slug": "california", "url": "https://betalist.com/regions/california" }],
  "similar_startups": [{ "slug": "another-startup", "name": "Another Startup", "url": "https://betalist.com/startups/another-startup", "tagline": "A related pitch", "boosted": false }],
  "contacts": {
    "emails": ["hello@example.com"],
    "phone_numbers": ["+10000000000"],
    "social_media": { "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example", "twitter": "https://x.com/example" }
  },
  "contacts_lookup_url": "https://sample-startup.example.com",
  "source": {
    "betalist_url": "https://betalist.com/startups/sample-startup",
    "seed_value": "https://betalist.com/topics/artificial-intelligence",
    "source_url": "https://betalist.com/startups/sample-startup",
    "scraped_time": "2026-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"
  }
}

Reviews

BetaList does not publish user reviews, ratings, or comments on startup pages, so no review field is produced. The follow count and similar-startup suggestions are the only social signals the site exposes, and the latter is captured in similar_startups.

Send results into your apps (MCP connectors)

Optionally pipe results into the apps you already use via Model Context Protocol (MCP) connectors. Authorize a connector under Apify, then Settings, then API & Integrations, select it in the mcpConnectors input, and set notionParentPageUrl for Notion. The connector receives a condensed, human-readable summary per startup (name, tagline, website, topics, one contact), not the full JSON; the complete record always stays in the Apify dataset. Leave the field empty to skip; it never changes the dataset output.

Plan Requirement

Runs on any Apify plan. Larger runs benefit from a paid connection tier for more rotation.