Gelbe Seiten Scraper: German Business Leads, Phones & Websites

Scrape German business listings from Gelbe Seiten by trade and city: company name, category, street, postcode, district, business phone, website, role e-mail (info@, kontakt@), rating, reviews, opening status and listing link. No browser. $0.60 per 1,000 businesses.

A Gelbe Seiten scraper for German B2B leads, with no browser and no proxy bill. Gelbe Seiten (the German Yellow Pages) lists millions of local businesses, from electricians and tax advisers to dentists, restaurants and law firms. Give it trades (elektriker, steuerberater, zahnarzt…) and cities or postcodes, and get one clean row per business: company name, main category, street, postcode, city and district, distance from the city centre, the business phone number, the website, a role e-mail (info@, kontakt@…) where listed, star rating and review count, today's opening status, a short self-description, the logo and the Gelbe Seiten listing link. Every trade runs in every city, past the first 50 results using the site's own "Mehr anzeigen" requests. Use it for German lead generation and cold outreach lists, local SEO and market mapping, territory planning for field sales, competitor research and CRM enrichment. $0.60 per 1,000 businesses, with no compute bill on top; problems return a free status row instead of failing.

What data does it return?

Every run outputs clean, schema-validated rows like these:

name	category	address	phone	email	rating
Blachnierz & Söhne Elektroinstallationsges. mbH	Elektroinstallationen	Buckower Chaussee 82, 12277 Berlin	030 7 21 50 20	info@elektro-bs.de
Griesbach Elektroanlagen	Elektroinstallationen	Friedrich-Wilhelm-Str. 64, 12103 Berlin	030 78 71 81 31		4.7
EF-ES-WE Elektroanlagen GmbH	Elektroinstallationen	Im Rehgrund 42, 13503 Berlin	030 6 90 08 00		4.8

How much does it cost?

Transparent pay-per-event pricing — you only pay for what you get, and the actor always respects your run budget: set a maximum total charge and it stops cleanly at the cap instead of overrunning.

Event	Price	Charged	Worked example
business-result	$0.0006	per business row	1,000 businesses = $0.60
apify-actor-start	$0.00005	per run per GB of memory (platform start fee)	One run at 256 MB = $0.00005

Input options

Field	Type	Required	Default	Description
trades	array	no	—	Business categories in German, as Gelbe Seiten names them, e.g. elektriker, steuerberater, zahnarzt, restaurant, friseur, dachdecker, rechtsanwalt.
cities	array	no	—	German cities, towns or 5-digit postcodes, e.g. berlin, münchen, frankfurt am main, 10115. Every trade is searched in every city.
maxPerSearch	integer	no	200	Listings per trade × city (the first 50 come in one page, then 10 per request).
includeRoleEmails	boolean	no	true	Add the business's e-mail when Gelbe Seiten lists one and it is a role mailbox (info@, kontakt@, service@, buero@…). Personal addresses are never output.
maxItems	integer	no	200	Stop after this many businesses in total. Each business is one charged row.

Limits & honest notes

• Responsible use: you are responsible for using the data in line with Gelbe Seiten's terms, the GDPR and German rules on advertising (UWG §7: cold calls and e-mails to businesses need at least presumed consent). This actor is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Gelbe Seiten or its publishers.
• It reads only the public /branchen/ listing pages and the page's own "Mehr anzeigen" endpoint (/ajaxsuche), which robots.txt allows; it never uses /suche, which robots.txt disallows. There is no login, no cookies, no proxies and no CAPTCHA solving; it sends an honest user agent (ActorForge-GelbeSeiten) and waits at least 1.5 s between requests.
• Business data only: the listed business phone, the website and role mailboxes (info@, kontakt@…). Personal e-mail addresses are dropped, and no owner or employee details are collected. Sole traders appear under their trading name, as listed.
• Results-list data only: no full opening hours, services or reviews text from the listing page.
• If the site answers with a block or a challenge, the run stops at once, keeps the businesses already delivered and adds a free status row. Respects your run budget: set a maximum total charge and the run stops cleanly at the cap. A run with no results returns one free status row.

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Changelog

• 2026-10-23 — Initial release: trades × cities on /branchen/ pages with /ajaxsuche paging; name, category, address, district, distance, phone, website, role e-mail, rating, reviews, opening status, logo, link; free status rows.

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