DesignRush Agency Directory Scraper

Scrape B2B agencies from DesignRush.com — one of the largest agency directories on the web. This Actor extracts agency contact and business data for outbound prospecting, agency brokers, and market researchers.

It pulls the full profile for every agency it visits: name, real website, email, phone, address, hourly rate band, project budget band, employee count, founding year, rating, review count, services, areas of expertise, clients, social profiles, and portfolio count.

Why use this Actor?

• Complete lead data — email + phone are extracted from the page's embedded schema.org JSON-LD (Organization/LocalBusiness), not guessed.
• No browser needed — DesignRush serves server-rendered HTML, so this Actor uses a fast, cheap CheerioCrawler (HTTP only). No expensive browser compute units.
• Proxy by default — all requests go through the Apify proxy (UNBLOCKER group, designed for Cloudflare-protected sites), so your IP is never exposed and the risk of being blocked is minimized.
• Built-in safety limits — hard caps on requests, concurrency, retries and timeouts, so a run can never spin out of control.
• Apify platform advantages — schedule recurring runs, get results via API, export to JSON/CSV/Excel, and integrate with n8n or any webhook.

How to use

1. Open the Actor in Apify Console and click Start.
2. (Optional) In the Input tab, set startUrls to specific category pages (e.g. https://www.designrush.com/agency/digital-marketing) or profile pages, or set categories to a list of slugs like ["digital-marketing", "web-design"].
3. Leave startUrls and categories empty to automatically discover and scrape all 60+ categories from the DesignRush agency hub.
4. Set maxAgencies to control how many agencies to collect.
5. Run and download the dataset.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
startUrls	array	—	Category listing pages, profile pages, or the hub page. Empty = scrape all categories.
categories	array	—	Category slugs to scrape (ignored if startUrls is set).
maxAgencies	integer	100	Max agencies to scrape (free users capped at 10).
maxPagesPerCategory	integer	5	Max listing pages per category (~30 agencies per page).
includeContactDetails	boolean	true	Fetch the contact endpoint when email/phone is missing from the profile.
includeReviews	boolean	false	Include individual review snippets in the output.
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	500	Hard cap on total HTTP requests.
maxConcurrency	integer	5	Parallel requests (keep modest).
proxyConfiguration	object	Apify proxy (UNBLOCKER group)	Proxy settings. The UNBLOCKER group is designed for Cloudflare-protected sites and is included in your plan (100k units/month). If you encounter issues, you can switch to BUYPROXIES94952 (faster datacenter group) in the Input tab.

Output

Each dataset item is one agency. Example:

{
  "url": "https://www.designrush.com/agency/profile/lounge-lizard",
  "slug": "lounge-lizard",
  "agencyId": "438",
  "name": "Lounge Lizard",
  "slogan": "Growth Marketing & Web Design Experts Since 1998",
  "website": "https://www.loungelizard.com/",
  "email": "sales@loungelizard.com",
  "phone": "888-444-0110",
  "address": "112 West 34th St. 18th Floor, New York City, New York 10120, United States",
  "addressParts": {
    "streetAddress": "112 West 34th St. 18th Floor",
    "locality": "New York City",
    "region": "New York",
    "postalCode": "10120",
    "country": "United States"
  },
  "employees": "50 - 99",
  "minimalBudget": "Inquire",
  "hourlyRate": "Inquire",
  "yearFounded": "1998",
  "rating": 4.8,
  "reviewCount": 10,
  "services": ["Web Development", "Web Design", "Digital Marketing", "Branding", "eCommerce", "SEO", "PPC"],
  "areasOfExpertise": ["Application Platforms", "Branding Expertise", "CMS Platforms"],
  "clients": ["Honeywell", "Disney", "Canon", "NYU", "Reuters"],
  "socials": {
    "facebook": "https://www.facebook.com/Lounge-Lizard-Worldwide-Inc-43528043595",
    "twitter": "https://twitter.com/LoungeLizardWW",
    "linkedin": "https://www.linkedin.com/company/lounge-lizard-worldwide-inc.",
    "instagram": "https://www.instagram.com/loungelizardww/"
  },
  "portfolioCount": 26,
  "portfolioAvailable": true,
  "source": "profile",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-08-19T09:00:00.000Z"
}

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

Data fields

Field	Description
name	Agency name
agencyId	DesignRush internal agency ID
website	Agency's real website URL
email	Contact email (from schema.org JSON-LD)
phone	Contact phone (from schema.org JSON-LD)
address / addressParts	Full address + structured parts
hourlyRate	Average hourly rate band (e.g. $80/hr, Inquire)
minimalBudget	Project budget band (e.g. $1,000 - $10,000)
employees	Employee count band (e.g. 50 - 99)
yearFounded	Founding year
rating	Average rating (0–5)
reviewCount	Number of reviews
reviews	Individual review snippets (optional)
services	Service categories
areasOfExpertise	Expertise clusters (SEO, PPC, UI/UX, etc.)
clients	Client names
socials	Social profile URLs
portfolioCount	Number of portfolio/case-study items
url	DesignRush profile URL

How much does it cost to scrape DesignRush?

DesignRush is a server-rendered site, so this Actor uses HTTP requests only — no browser compute units. A run of 100 agencies typically costs a fraction of a compute unit. Free Apify users get a capped preview of 10 agencies per run; paid users can scrape thousands. Proxy usage is included in Apify paid plans.

Tips

• Start small: run with maxAgencies: 20 first to validate output, then scale up.
• Target a niche: use categories: ["seo", "web-design"] to focus on a specific buyer segment.
• Full directory: leave inputs empty and raise maxAgencies and maxRequestsPerCrawl for a full crawl (DesignRush has tens of thousands of agencies).
• Rate limiting: keep maxConcurrency at 5 or below; the Actor already throttles to ~60 requests/minute.

FAQ, disclaimers and support

• Is scraping DesignRush legal? Scraping publicly available business data is generally acceptable, but always respect the site's Terms of Service and robots.txt. This Actor only reads public profile pages.
• Why is email/phone sometimes missing? Some agencies hide their contact details behind a click-to-reveal button. The Actor tries the contact endpoint to recover them; if that fails, the fields are simply omitted.
• Known limitation: DesignRush is behind Cloudflare and blocks non-browser User-Agents (403). The Actor sends full browser headers on every request. The UNBLOCKER proxy group is designed for Cloudflare-protected sites and is included in your plan (100k units/month). If you see many failures, switch the proxy group to BUYPROXIES94952 in the Input tab for faster datacenter proxies (but profile pages may still 403 on some IPs).
• Found a bug or want a custom version (e.g. reviews-only, or enriched with LinkedIn data)? Open an issue on the Actor's Issues tab or contact us for a custom solution.