local.ch Scraper

Pull structured company data from local.ch, the Swiss directory: name, full street address, GPS coordinates, phone, email, website, opening hours, ratings, social media URLs, photos, and category tags. Two ways to start: search by category and location (city, postal code, canton, or all of Switzerland), or paste local.ch URLs (search or company profiles). Works in Deutsch, English, Français, and Italiano.

Why this scraper

• Two start modes plus a review-only switch: search by category + location, or paste local.ch URLs. Turn on reviewOnly to emit review-comment rows instead of listings.
• Four languages: pages and category slugs auto-resolve in DE/EN/FR/IT, so coiffeur works in French and friseur works in German.
• Five location types: city slug (zurich), 4-digit postal code (8001), 2-letter canton (zh, ge, vd), switzerland, or all of Switzerland.
• 30+ fields per company, including phone, mobile, email, website, all social media URLs (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, TikTok, Pinterest, YouTube, XING), GPS lat/lng, opening hours per weekday, attribute tags (delivery, takeaway, parking, ...), and full photo galleries.
• Detail enrichment by default (toggle via fetchDetails): SERP cards alone only carry name + city + postal + category, so the actor visits every profile to pull the rich payload.
• Optional review comments in listing rows: turn on includeReviews to embed up to 10 review comments per search or URL mode listing.
• Polymorphic contactsRaw[] passthrough: the full contact polymorphism (MobileContact, LandlineContact, EmailContact, SocialMediaContact, ...) is preserved alongside the flat fields, so future-added contact types still land in the dataset.
• Tiny footprint: 256 MB peak memory, runs on the Apify free tier.

Data you get

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

Field	Example
id	aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
name	Sample Café Zürich
subtitle	Sample Café GmbH
language	de
isPremium	true
mainCategory	Café
mainCategorySlug	cafe
categories	["Café", "Tea room", "Catering"]
categorySlugs	["cafe", "tea-room", "catering"]
street	Sample Street 1
zipCode	8001
city	Zürich
canton	ZH
country	CH
address	Sample Street 1, 8001 Zürich
latitude	47.0000
longitude	8.0000
phone	+41440000000
mobile	+41760000000
email	info@example.com
website	https://example.com/
whatsapp	+41760000000
facebook	https://www.facebook.com/example
instagram	https://www.instagram.com/example
linkedin	https://www.linkedin.com/company/example
rating	4.5
ratingCount	120
reviewCount	60
reviewsFetched	3
reviews	[{ "text": "Great service...", "author": "Reviewer", "date": "2026-01-01" }]
reviewText	Great service and friendly staff. (review mode only)
openingHours	Mon: 09:00-18:00; Tue: 09:00-18:00; Wed: closed; ...
openingHoursStructured	[{ day: "MONDAY", intervals: [{ type: "OPEN", start: "09:00", end: "18:00" }] }, ...]
description	Sample description paragraph appears here when fetchDetails=true.
attributes	["Takeaway", "Delivery", "Vegetarian options"]
breadcrumb	["Home", "Food", "Café"]
logoUrl	https://images.services.local.ch/.../logo.jpg
imageUrls	["https://images.services.local.ch/.../photo-1.jpg", "..."]
contactsRaw	full polymorphic contacts array (see Output example)
attributeGroupsRaw	full upstream attributeGroups array
detailUrl	https://www.local.ch/de/d/zurich/8001/cafe/sample-cafe-zurich-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
searchQuery	cafe
searchWhere	zurich

How to use

Search by category in one city

{
  "mode": "search",
  "category": "restaurant",
  "where": "zurich",
  "language": "de",
  "maxPages": 5,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Multi-category sweep across a canton

{
  "mode": "search",
  "queries": ["restaurant", "hotel", "café"],
  "where": "zh",
  "language": "de",
  "maxListings": 200
}

Search by 4-digit postal code, English UI

{
  "mode": "search",
  "category": "tea-room",
  "where": "8001",
  "language": "en",
  "maxPages": 3
}

Paste local.ch URLs (search + profile mixed)

{
  "mode": "url",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.local.ch/de/s/restaurant/zurich",
    "https://www.local.ch/fr/s/restaurant/geneve",
    "https://www.local.ch/en/d/zurich/8001/tea-room/sample-name-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
  ],
  "maxPages": 3,
  "fetchDetails": true
}

Listing records with review comments embedded

{
  "mode": "url",
  "urls": [
    "https://www.local.ch/en/d/zurich/8001/tea-room/bonne-maman-boutique-cafe-nVESaL0TOav64BpX8B1Ncg"
  ],
  "includeReviews": true,
  "maxReviewsPerListing": 10
}

Review comments only from pasted profile URLs

{
  "mode": "url",
  "reviewOnly": true,
  "urls": [
    "https://www.local.ch/en/d/zurich/8001/tea-room/bonne-maman-boutique-cafe-nVESaL0TOav64BpX8B1Ncg"
  ],
  "maxListings": 10
}

Review comments discovered from a category search

{
  "mode": "search",
  "reviewOnly": true,
  "category": "restaurant",
  "where": "zurich",
  "maxListings": 10
}

Lead-gen filter: only premium-listed companies with both phone and email

{
  "mode": "search",
  "category": "garage",
  "where": "switzerland",
  "language": "de",
  "premiumOnly": true,
  "withPhone": true,
  "withEmail": true,
  "maxListings": 500
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
mode	string	search	search (build from category + location) or url (use the urls list).
reviewOnly	boolean	false	Global output switch. When true, emit one row per review comment instead of listing rows.
category	string	restaurant	Single category slug or label. Used in search mode when queries is empty.
queries	array	[]	Multiple categories to walk in search mode. Overrides category.
where	string	zurich	Location: city slug, 4-digit postal code, 2-letter canton, switzerland, or empty.
language	enum	de	de, en, fr, or it. Affects URL slugs and content language.
urls	array	[]	local.ch URLs (search or profile pages). Used in URL mode. With reviewOnly=true, profile URLs scrape reviews directly and search URLs discover profiles, then scrape reviews.
maxPages	integer	3	Max SERP pages per category/URL. 20 results per page.
maxListings	integer	0	Total cap (0 = unlimited). Multi-query inputs split the cap evenly.
fetchDetails	boolean	true	Visit each profile page for phone, email, GPS, hours, social, attributes.
includeReviews	boolean	false	Include review comments inside each search or URL mode listing record.
maxReviewsPerListing	integer	10	Maximum embedded review comments per listing. Capped at 10.
maxReviewRows	integer	10	Default review-row cap when reviewOnly=true and maxListings is left at 0.
maxConcurrency	integer	6	Concurrent profile-page fetches.
ratedOnly	boolean	false	Drop entries without an average rating.
minRating	number	(none)	Drop entries below this rating.
withPhone	boolean	false	Drop entries without a phone number.
withEmail	boolean	false	Drop entries without an email.
withWebsite	boolean	false	Drop entries without a website.
premiumOnly	boolean	false	Keep only premium-listed companies.
proxy	object	{ useApifyProxy: true }	Defaults to Apify's standard connection settings. For large runs, country=CH is recommended.

Output example

Sample record, values are illustrative placeholders, not from a live company.

{
  "id": "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  "name": "Sample Café Zürich",
  "subtitle": "Sample Café GmbH",
  "language": "de",
  "isPremium": true,
  "favorited": false,
  "professionalTitle": null,
  "address": "Sample Street 1, 8001 Zürich",
  "street": "Sample Street 1",
  "zipCode": "8001",
  "city": "Zürich",
  "canton": "ZH",
  "country": "CH",
  "latitude": 47.0000,
  "longitude": 8.0000,
  "phone": "+41440000000",
  "phoneAlt": null,
  "mobile": "+41760000000",
  "fax": null,
  "email": "info@example.com",
  "emailAlt": null,
  "website": "https://example.com/",
  "whatsapp": "+41760000000",
  "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/example",
  "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/example",
  "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/example",
  "twitter": null,
  "tiktok": null,
  "pinterest": null,
  "youtube": null,
  "xing": null,
  "foursquare": null,
  "mainCategory": "Café",
  "mainCategorySlug": "cafe",
  "categories": ["Café", "Tea room", "Catering"],
  "categorySlugs": ["cafe", "tea-room", "catering"],
  "rating": 4.5,
  "ratingCount": 120,
  "reviewCount": 60,
  "reviewsFetched": 2,
  "reviews": [
    {
      "reviewId": "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
      "title": "Great service",
      "text": "Sample review comment appears here.",
      "date": "2026-01-01T10:00:00Z",
      "author": "Reviewer Name",
      "reply": null
    }
  ],
  "openingHours": "Mon: 09:00-18:00; Tue: 09:00-18:00; Wed: closed; Thu: 09:00-18:00; Fri: 09:00-18:00; Sat: 10:00-17:00; Sun: closed",
  "openingHoursStructured": [
    { "day": "MONDAY", "intervals": [{ "type": "OPEN", "start": "09:00", "end": "18:00" }] }
  ],
  "description": "Sample description paragraph appears here when fetchDetails=true.",
  "descriptionHtml": "<p>Sample description paragraph appears here when fetchDetails=true.</p>",
  "attributes": ["Takeaway", "Delivery", "Vegetarian options"],
  "breadcrumb": ["Home", "Food", "Café"],
  "logoUrl": "https://images.services.local.ch/aaaa/logo.jpg",
  "imageUrls": [
    "https://images.services.local.ch/aaaa/photo-1.jpg",
    "https://images.services.local.ch/aaaa/photo-2.jpg"
  ],
  "contactsRaw": [
    { "__typename": "MobileContact", "value": "+41760000000", "displayValue": "076 000 00 00", "whatsapp": true },
    { "__typename": "EmailContact",  "value": "info@example.com", "displayValue": "info@example.com" },
    { "__typename": "CustomerProvidedURLContact", "value": "https://example.com/", "displayValue": "example.com" },
    { "__typename": "SocialMediaContact", "value": "https://www.facebook.com/example", "socialMediaProvider": "FACEBOOK" }
  ],
  "additionalContactsRaw": null,
  "attributeGroupsRaw": [
    { "groupName": "Services", "attributes": [{ "id": "takeaway", "name": "Takeaway" }] }
  ],
  "detailUrl": "https://www.local.ch/de/d/zurich/8001/cafe/sample-cafe-zurich-aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa",
  "searchQuery": "cafe",
  "searchWhere": "zurich"
}

Plan requirement

The actor works on every Apify plan including Free. For larger runs (thousands of records), the Apify Starter plan or above is recommended for the most consistent throughput.