# Clutch.co Agency Directory Scraper Cheapest (`ahmed_jasarevic/clutch-agency-scraper`) Actor

Extract B2B agencies from Clutch.co: name, rating, review count, hourly rate, min project size, employees, services with % split, location, phone, website, contact emails and decision-makers. For B2B lead-gen, staffing, procurement and competitive intelligence.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/ahmed\_jasarevic/clutch-agency-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ahmed Jasarevic](https://apify.com/ahmed_jasarevic) (community)
- **Categories:** Lead generation, Automation, Developer tools
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
- **User rating**: No ratings yet

## Pricing

from $2.50 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

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

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
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Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

### What does Clutch.co Agency Directory Scraper do?

This Actor extracts **B2B agencies from [Clutch.co](https://clutch.co)** — the world's largest B2B ratings and reviews platform with 250,000+ listed service providers. For every agency it returns the **name, Clutch rating, review count, hourly rate, minimum project size, employee count, services with % split, location, phone, website, contact emails and decision-makers** (name + title from the "Meet the Team" section).

Clutch.co does **not offer a public API**, but its listing and profile pages are **server-rendered HTML**, so this Actor reads them with plain **HTTP requests (CheerioCrawler)** — no browser needed. That makes it roughly **10-20x faster and far cheaper** than browser-based scrapers: no Chrome container, no page rendering, no waiting on challenges. It routes through the **Apify residential proxy** for reliable, IP-rotated access and runs on the Apify platform, so you get API access, scheduling, proxy rotation and monitoring out of the box.

### Why use this Actor?

- **B2B lead generation** — build targeted agency shortlists by category and location with pricing, team size and contact details attached.
- **Staffing & procurement** — compare agencies on rating, review count, hourly rate and project minimum before issuing RFPs.
- **Sales territory planning** — map which agencies operate in which cities/regions and how big they are.
- **Competitive intelligence** — track how competitors are rated, priced and positioned across service categories.

### How to use the Actor

1. Open the Actor on Apify and go to the **Input** tab.
2. Paste one or more Clutch **directory URLs** (e.g. `https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing` or `https://clutch.co/web-developers`). Optionally add specific **profile URLs** instead.
3. Set **Max pages per directory** (default 5, ~60 agencies per page) and **Max results** (default 100).
4. Keep `Scrape profile pages` and `Extract emails & phones` enabled for outreach-ready records.
5. Click **Start**. Download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel or HTML, or call the Actor via the Apify API.

### Input

| Field | Type | Default | Description |
|-------|------|---------|-------------|
| `directoryUrls` | string\[] | `["https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing"]` | Clutch category/location listing URLs to walk page-by-page |
| `profileUrls` | string\[] | `[]` | Specific profile URLs to scrape directly (alternative to directories) |
| `maxPages` | integer | `5` | Max listing pages per directory (~60 agencies each) |
| `maxResults` | integer | `100` | Max agencies to save (free users capped at 10) |
| `scrapeProfiles` | boolean | `true` | Follow each agency to its profile for website, phone, address, founded year, decision makers |
| `extractContacts` | boolean | `true` | Visit each agency's own website and extract emails + phone numbers (best-effort) |
| `proxy` | proxy | Residential | Apify Proxy — **residential is strongly recommended** (Clutch flags datacenter IPs fast) |

### Output

Each dataset item is one agency. Example:

```json
{
  "company_name": "Ignite Visibility",
  "profileUrl": "https://clutch.co/profile/ignite-visibility",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviewCount": 173,
  "minProjectSize": "$10,000+",
  "hourlyRate": "$100 - $149 / hr",
  "employees": "250 - 999",
  "location": "San Diego, CA",
  "services": ["40% Search Engine Optimization", "10% Advertising", "10% Email Marketing"],
  "description": "Ignite Visibility is a digital marketing agency specializing in SEO...",
  "website": "ignitevisibility.com",
  "phone": "6197521955",
  "emails": ["hello@ignitevisibility.com"],
  "decisionMakers": [{ "name": "John Lincoln", "title": "Co-Founder, Executive Chairman" }],
  "foundedYear": 2013,
  "address": "4250 Executive Square Suite #100, San Diego, CA, 92037, US",
  "isVerified": true,
  "isSponsored": true,
  "sourceUrl": "https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-09T12:00:00.000Z"
}
```

You can download the dataset in various formats such as JSON, HTML, CSV, or Excel.

### Data table

| Field | Description |
|-------|-------------|
| `company_name` | Agency / service-provider name |
| `profileUrl` | Clutch profile URL |
| `rating` | Clutch star rating (0–5) |
| `reviewCount` | Number of verified reviews |
| `hourlyRate` | Hourly rate band (e.g. `$100 - $149 / hr`) |
| `minProjectSize` | Minimum project budget band |
| `employees` | Employee count range |
| `location` | Headquarters city/region |
| `services` | Service breakdown with % split (from listing pages) |
| `description` | Company description |
| `website` | Agency's own website (unwrapped from Clutch's redirect) |
| `phone` | Phone number (from profile page) |
| `emails` / `phones` | Contact emails & phones harvested from the agency's own website |
| `decisionMakers` | Team members with name + title (from "Meet the Team") |
| `foundedYear` | Year founded |
| `address` | Full street address |
| `isVerified` / `isSponsored` | Clutch verification / paid placement flags |
| `sourceUrl` | Directory page the agency was found on |

### How much does it cost to scrape Clutch.co?

Each agency costs roughly one listing page request plus one profile page request (plus a few lightweight requests to the agency's own website when contact extraction is on). Because the Actor uses **plain HTTP instead of a browser**, a run of 100 agencies typically consumes **far fewer compute units** than browser-based alternatives. Free Apify users get a **10-agency preview** per run; paid users can scale to thousands. Residential proxy traffic is billed per Apify's standard proxy rates.

### Tips & advanced options

- **Pick your directories carefully** — Clutch URLs encode all filter state (category, location, services, employee count). Browse Clutch, apply your filters, and paste the resulting URL into `directoryUrls` to scrape exactly that pre-filtered set.
- **Turn off `extractContacts`** for a cheaper, faster first pass — it's the only step that hits third-party websites.
- **De-duplication is built in** — Clutch clamps out-of-range pages to the last valid one, which makes naive scrapers loop forever. This actor stops paginating when a page returns no new agencies.
- **Rate bands are ordinal buckets** — `minProjectSize`, `hourlyRate` and `employees` are ranges as Clutch publishes them, not exact numbers.

### FAQ, disclaimers & support

- **Is this legal?** The actor only reads publicly listed directory and profile data — no login, no API key, no private data. Always respect Clutch's Terms of Service and the target websites' robots.txt.
- **Why no browser?** Clutch.co serves its full HTML to plain HTTP clients (verified against live pages). A browser would only add minutes of startup time and a heavy container per request for zero benefit — CheerioCrawler fetches the same server-rendered markup at HTTP speed.
- **Why residential proxy?** Datacenter IPs get flagged quickly. Residential IPs keep success rates high across many pages. A no-proxy run works too for small previews, but expect faster rate-limiting.
- **Known limitations** — The services % split is only published on listing pages, so profile-only runs won't include it. Email/phone extraction from agency websites is best-effort: some sites block automated requests or obfuscate their contacts.
- Found a bug or want a custom variant (reviews, portfolio, custom filters)? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab or contact us for a tailored solution.

# Actor input Schema

## `directoryUrls` (type: `array`):

Clutch.co category/location listing URLs to scrape, e.g. https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing or https://clutch.co/web-developers. The actor walks each directory page-by-page.

## `profileUrls` (type: `array`):

Optional: specific Clutch profile URLs to scrape directly, e.g. https://clutch.co/profile/company-name. Use this instead of directory URLs when you already have a target list.

## `maxPages` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of listing pages to walk per directory URL (~60 agencies per page).

## `maxResults` (type: `integer`):

Maximum number of agencies to save. Free users are capped at 10 regardless of this value.

## `scrapeProfiles` (type: `boolean`):

Follow each agency to its Clutch profile page to enrich the record with website, phone, address, founded year and decision makers. Disable for faster/cheaper runs.

## `extractContacts` (type: `boolean`):

Visit each agency's own website (homepage + contact/about pages) and extract contact emails and phone numbers. Best-effort — some sites block automated requests.

## `proxy` (type: `object`):

Apify Proxy with Residential IPs is strongly recommended — Clutch.co sits behind a Cloudflare managed challenge and datacenter IPs get flagged fast.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "directoryUrls": [
    "https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing"
  ],
  "profileUrls": [],
  "maxPages": 5,
  "maxResults": 100,
  "scrapeProfiles": true,
  "extractContacts": true,
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (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 = {
    "directoryUrls": [
        "https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing"
    ],
    "profileUrls": [],
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": true,
        "apifyProxyGroups": [
            "RESIDENTIAL"
        ]
    }
};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("ahmed_jasarevic/clutch-agency-scraper").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 = {
    "directoryUrls": ["https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing"],
    "profileUrls": [],
    "proxy": {
        "useApifyProxy": True,
        "apifyProxyGroups": ["RESIDENTIAL"],
    },
}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("ahmed_jasarevic/clutch-agency-scraper").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 '{
  "directoryUrls": [
    "https://clutch.co/agencies/digital-marketing"
  ],
  "profileUrls": [],
  "proxy": {
    "useApifyProxy": true,
    "apifyProxyGroups": [
      "RESIDENTIAL"
    ]
  }
}' |
apify call ahmed_jasarevic/clutch-agency-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

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

```

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/8rFaYsSooj40GMEgg/builds/l5tB3tYrrmmKrD7Rg/openapi.json