# TrustMRR Startup scraper (`advantageous_subcontra/trustmrr`) Actor

Get all startups listed in any category on TrustMRR startup database. Get all information about each startup, like revenue, founding year, and location.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/advantageous_subcontra/trustmrr.md
- **Developed by:** [Fabian Maume](https://apify.com/advantageous_subcontra) (community)
- **Categories:** Other
- **Stats:** 126 total users, 20 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 1 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $0.40 / 1,000 startup founds

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.
Since this Actor supports Apify Store discounts, the price gets lower the higher subscription plan you have.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/actors/running/actors-in-store.md#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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For examples already wired to this Actor's own input schema, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## TrustMRR Startup Scraper

Scrape any category or country page on TrustMRR and extract verified startup revenue data (MRR, total revenue), founder profiles, and tech stacks.

### What is the TrustMRR startup database?

[TrustMRR](https://trustmrr.com/) is a database of startups to promote the build-in-public movement. It is a project developed and maintained by [Marc Lou](https://www.linkedin.com/in/marclouvion/).

All startups listed on TrustMRR need to connect their Stripe billing. So, TrustMRR only displays real revenue numbers (no fake or inflated revenue claims).

### Why get data from TrustMRR?

TrustMRR is a valuable source of insight about startups. You can query the data for multiple use cases:

- Monitor trending tech: for example, by [monitoring OpenClaw startup](https://apify.com/advantageous_subcontra/trustmrr/examples/trustmrr-task) and checking the tech stack they use.
- Monitor a specific startup vertical: for example [monitor the AI startups](https://apify.com/advantageous_subcontra/trustmrr/examples/trustmrr-ai-startup)
- Analyze the startup ecosystem of a specific country: for example by [mining data about Czech startups](https://apify.com/advantageous_subcontra/trustmrr/examples/trustmrr-czech-startup)
- Find all startups of an Indie Hacker: for example [all startups founded by Marc Lou (the founder of TrustMRR)](https://apify.com/advantageous_subcontra/trustmrr/examples/marc-lou-startups-on-trustmrr)

### How to use the trustMRR scraper?

This scraper is designed to scrape any category listed on TrustMRR.

You can find a list of available categories [here](https://trustmrr.com/category).
You can also scrape startup based on location using the url : https://trustmrr.com/country/ + {alpha 2 country code} For example https://trustmrr.com/country/cz for Czech based startups.

#### Inputs

This scraper takes the following inputs:

- **TrustMRR category URL**: you can list as many categories as you wish to scrape
- **Scrape profile**: toggle it if you want to get all the information from the startup profiles
- **Max number of scroll**: by default TrustMRR category display 30 results. Each scroll will display 30 more results. By default this scraper will perform 10 scrolls.
- **Include extended profile fields** *(optional, requires Scrape profile)*: adds business metrics, Twitter data, for-sale info, and SEO metrics to each profile record.
- **Include startup updates** *(optional, requires Scrape profile)*: fetches recent updates posted on each startup's TrustMRR page and stores them in a separate `updates` dataset.
- **Include daily revenue time series** *(optional, requires Scrape profile)*: fetches the last 30 days of daily revenue for each startup and stores it in a separate `revenue_time_series` dataset.

#### Outputs

This scraper writes to up to three datasets:

- **Default dataset**: the overview and profile list (below)
- **`updates` dataset**: only when *Include startup updates* is enabled
- **`revenue_time_series` dataset**: only when *Include daily revenue time series* is enabled

The Overview view has two fields:

- Category URL: the TrustMRR category URL you scraped
- startup URL: the TrustMRR startup profile

The Profile List view includes:

- TrustMRR profile: the TrustMRR startup profile that you can match with "startup Url" property from the Overview tab
- Startup Name
- Tagline
- Total revenue
- MRR
- Founded: the founding year of the startup
- Location: the headquarters location of the startup
- Last 4 weeks Revenue
- Website
- Value proposition of the startup
- The problem this startup solves
- Tech stack used by this startup
- TrustMRR profile of the founder

When *Include extended profile fields* is enabled, each profile record also carries:

- `activeSubscriptions`, `profitMargin30d`, `revenueGrowth30d` (revenue growth, distinct from the MRR-based `MoMGrowth`), `rank`, `uniquePageviews`, `revenueLastSyncedAt`, `foundedDate` (full ISO), `category`
- `xHandle`, `xFollowerCount`, `founderName`, `founderTwitter`
- `onSale`, `askingPrice`, `sellerMessage`, `cachedMultiple` (populated only for startups listed for sale)
- `ahrefsDomain`, `ahrefsDomainRating`, `marketingChannels`

The **`updates` dataset** has one row per update post per startup: `{ startupSlug, startupId, profileUrl, update }`.

The **`revenue_time_series` dataset** has one row per startup: `{ startupSlug, startupId, profileUrl, granularity, period, series }` where `series` is the raw daily-revenue array.

#### Scheduling

Apify allows you to schedule a scraper for recurrent launch. This is perfect if you want to monitor the performance of a specific startup category.

Check out [this tutorial](https://docs.apify.com/platform/schedules) for more information about scheduling options.

### FAQ

#### Why not use TrustMRR API?

TrustMRR has an official API, and if you know your way around API you can check the documentation [here](https://trustmrr.com/docs/api).

However, TrustMRR API has a low rate limit at only 20 requests per minute. So if you are looking for wide-scale monitoring of TrustMRR, web scraping will be a more scalable option.

#### What are TrustMRR alternatives?

When it comes to open data about build-in-public startups, TrustMRR is in a league of its own. [IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/) also provides MRR data about a few projects, but those numbers are self-reported and can easily be inflated.

If you are looking for an alternative to TrustMRR to sell your startup: [Flippa](https://referral.flippa.com/gifk7dasar0g) and [Acquire](https://acquire.com/) are worth checking out.

#### Can I use integrations with the TrustMRR Startup Scraper?

You can use [Apify platform integrations](https://docs.apify.com/platform/integrations) to push data to a third-party tool.

[video tutorial ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bNACk1_S_6w)

#### Can I use the TrustMRR Startup Scraper through an MCP Server?

With the Apify API, you can use almost any Actor in conjunction with an MCP server. You can connect to the MCP server using clients like ClaudeDesktop and LibreChat, or even build your own. Read all about [how you can set up Apify Actors with MCP](https://blog.apify.com/how-to-use-mcp/).

#### Is this Actor open source?

The first version of this scraper was open source. Given the spirit of openness behind TrustMRR platform, I wanted to make this scraper fully open source.
You can find the source code [here](https://github.com/fmaume/Trust-MRR-Scraper/tree/main)

This scraper is also fully copyleft. You are free to use and edit the source code as you wish, even for commercial applications.

### Related Apify Actor

If you are interested in Startup Database like TrustMRR you might enjoy a few other Apify Actors:

- [Crunchbase scraper](https://apify.com/curious_coder/crunchbase-scraper)
- [Y combinator Scraper](https://apify.com/michael.g/y-combinator-scraper)
- [Peerlist scraper](https://apify.com/advantageous_subcontra/peerlist-launch-upvoters-extractor)
- [Product hunt scraper](https://apify.com/danpoletaev/product-hunt-scraper)

# Actor input Schema

## `categoryList` (type: `array`):

List of TrustMRR category URLs

## `scrollLimit` (type: `integer`):

By default, TrustMRR displays 30 startups per category. You can scroll to get more startups. Every scroll displays 30 more results.

## `scrapeProfile` (type: `boolean`):

Do you want to scrape profile data for each startup?

## `includeExtendedProfile` (type: `boolean`):

Adds extra fields to each startup profile (business metrics, X/Twitter, for-sale info, SEO). Requires 'Scrape Profile' to be enabled. No extra HTTP requests are made.

## `includeUpdates` (type: `boolean`):

Fetches recent updates posted on each startup's TrustMRR page and stores them in a separate 'updates' dataset. Requires 'Scrape Profile'. Adds one HTTP request per profile.

## `includeRevenueTimeSeries` (type: `boolean`):

Fetches the last 30 days of daily revenue for each startup and stores it in a separate 'revenue-time-series' dataset. Requires 'Scrape Profile'. Adds one HTTP request per profile.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "categoryList": [
    "https://trustmrr.com/category/iot-hardware"
  ],
  "scrollLimit": 10,
  "scrapeProfile": false,
  "includeExtendedProfile": false,
  "includeUpdates": false,
  "includeRevenueTimeSeries": false
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `overview` (type: `string`):

No description

## `startupList` (type: `string`):

No description

## `updates` (type: `string`):

No description

## `revenueTimeSeries` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {
    "categoryList": [
        "https://trustmrr.com/category/iot-hardware"
    ]
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("advantageous_subcontra/trustmrr").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = { "categoryList": ["https://trustmrr.com/category/iot-hardware"] }

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("advantageous_subcontra/trustmrr").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{
  "categoryList": [
    "https://trustmrr.com/category/iot-hardware"
  ]
}' |
apify call advantageous_subcontra/trustmrr --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,advantageous_subcontra/trustmrr"
        }
    }
}
```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/AtACnjhCvlcGC4nl3/builds/GTaKCaNY9pc7zR3Zo/openapi.json