Expertise Scraper [$0.0016💰/result] — Ranked "Best in City" Professionals & Local Business Leads

Scrape ranked "best in city" professionals from expertise.com — lawyers, CPAs, contractors, agencies and more across 200+ categories and thousands of US cities. Each record includes the business name, website, phone, address, rating, review counts, Google/Yelp/Facebook/Avvo profiles, license details and its rank on the page — perfect for local business leads, law firm lead generation, contractor leads and CPA directory data.

The actor runs on the Apify platform — you get API access, scheduling, webhooks, integrations (Zapier, Make, Google Sheets) and monitoring out of the box. Pricing is pay-per-result: just $0.0016 per provider record — no minutes, no hidden compute charges.

Why use Expertise Scraper? Use cases

• Lead generation: build targeted prospect lists of top-rated local professionals with contact details and review profiles — ideal for local lead generation, B2B local leads and telemarketing leads databases.
• Legal marketing data: track which personal injury, family or real estate law firms rank #1 in each city and how their ratings evolve — a ready-made lawyer database and law firm leads source.
• Financial verticals: CPA firms, tax accountants and business consultants by city — reliable CPA leads and tax accountant leads.
• Home services: contractors, renovators and home improvement pros with license details — quality contractor leads and licensed contractors data.
• Competitive & market research: compare pricing, licensing and team size across verticals and geographies; maintain ranked professionals data and business leads databases.
• Cheap & fast: the actor reads the structured data already embedded in the page (no browser rendering), so runs are fast and cost almost nothing.

How to use Expertise Scraper

1. Open the actor's Input tab.
2. Either paste one or more Start URLs (e.g. https://www.expertise.com/legal/personal-injury-lawyers/texas/houston), or leave them empty and let the actor discover directory pages from the category sitemaps (optionally filtered by category, state and city).
3. Set Max Items (how many provider records to output) and Max Requests per Crawl (how many directory pages to fetch — each page yields up to 20 ranked providers).
4. Click Run and download the dataset as JSON, HTML, CSV or Excel.

How to scrape "best in city" professionals data from expertise.com

expertise.com has no public API, so the only way to get its ranked "best in city" professional data programmatically is by scraping. The site loads each provider as structured data embedded in the page (Next.js flight payload) plus rendered HTML cards. This actor extracts both: it reads the embedded structured payload for full provider details and merges in the rank, slug and featured flag from the rendered <article> cards. Because it uses plain HTTP (CheerioCrawler) instead of a headless browser, scraping expertise.com with this actor is cheap, fast and reliable.

Discover every 4-segment directory URL (/category/vertical/state/city) from the category sitemaps — the legal sitemap alone contains roughly 10,000 city/category pages.

Input

Field	Type	Description
startUrls	array	City/category directory URLs to scrape directly.
categories	array	Filter sitemap discovery: legal, finance, home-improvement, business, insurance. Empty = all.
states	array	Filter discovery to state slugs (e.g. texas, california). Empty = all.
cities	array	Filter discovery to city slugs (e.g. houston, los-angeles). Empty = all.
maxItems	integer	Max provider records to output (default 100).
maxRequestsPerCrawl	integer	Max directory pages to fetch (default 100).
proxy	object	Standard Apify proxy picker (off by default).

Example input (JSON)

{
  "startUrls": [
    { "url": "https://www.expertise.com/legal/personal-injury-lawyers/texas/houston" }
  ],
  "categories": ["legal"],
  "states": ["texas", "california"],
  "maxItems": 100,
  "maxRequestsPerCrawl": 50
}

Output

Each dataset item is one ranked provider:

{
  "rank": 1,
  "providerId": 315131,
  "businessName": "Zehl & Associates, PC",
  "website": "https://www.zehllaw.com",
  "phone": "713-491-6064",
  "address": "2700 Post Oak Blvd Ste 1000",
  "city": "Houston",
  "state": "TX",
  "zipCode": "77056",
  "rating": 4.99,
  "reviewCount": 1129,
  "googleProfile": "https://www.google.com/maps/place/...",
  "googleRating": "5",
  "googleReviewCount": 1103,
  "facebookProfile": "https://www.facebook.com/ZehlAssociates/",
  "yelpProfile": "https://www.yelp.com/biz/zehl-and-associates-houston-2",
  "avvoProfile": "https://www.avvo.com/attorneys/77056-tx-ryan-zehl-90253.html",
  "licenseNumber": null,
  "members": [
    { "name": "Ryan Zehl - Partner", "licenseDate": "2004-11-05T00:00:00.000Z" }
  ],
  "tags": ["Commercial Vehicle Accidents", "General Negligence"],
  "category": "legal",
  "vertical": "personal-injury-lawyers",
  "stateSlug": "texas",
  "citySlug": "houston",
  "pageUrl": "https://www.expertise.com/legal/personal-injury-lawyers/texas/houston"
}

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

Data fields

Field	Description
rank	Position of the provider on the directory page (1 = best).
businessName, website, phone	Contact details.
address, city, state, zipCode	Location details.
rating, reviewCount	Overall score and total reviews.
googleProfile, googleRating, googleReviewCount	Google Maps profile + rating.
facebookProfile, facebookRating, facebookReviewCount	Facebook page + rating.
yelpProfile, yelpRating, yelpReviewCount	Yelp profile + rating.
avvoProfile, findLawProfile, justiaProfile	Legal-directory profiles (when present).
licenseNumber, licenseStatus, licensingBody	License details (when published).
members	Team members with license dates.
tags, description, price	Category tags, snippet and price level.
boosted, listingType, featured, profileSlug	Listing metadata.
category, vertical, stateSlug, citySlug, pageUrl	Page context.

How much does it cost to scrape expertise.com?

The actor uses CheerioCrawler (plain HTTP, no browser) and reads the structured provider data already embedded in each page, so it is very cheap. Billing is PAY_PER_EVENT — $0.0016 per provider record plus a tiny $0.00005 actor-start fee. A single directory page (20 providers) bills roughly $0.032. Free Apify accounts get a capped preview (10 items per run); paid accounts run unlimited.

Tips

• Discover everything: leave startUrls empty and use categories/states/cities filters to crawl entire verticals. The legal sitemap alone contains roughly 10,000 city/category pages.
• Cap your runs: set maxItems to the number of leads you actually need — each page yields up to 20 providers.
• Proxy: expertise.com does not require a proxy for normal volumes. Turn on the Apify proxy only if you hit rate limits on very large crawls.
• Save money: since billing is per result, maxItems is your cost cap. Start small, verify the data, then scale.

Integrations & scheduling

Like every Apify actor, this one works out of the box with:

• API access — call it via REST, JavaScript, Python, Python Async Playwright, PHP, or crawlee clients.
• Schedules — run daily/weekly to keep your local business leads fresh.
• Zapier / Make / Google Sheets / Airbyte — push provider records straight into your CRM or spreadsheet.
• Webhooks — trigger downstream workflows when a run finishes.

Related actors

• Yelp Review Scraper (tri_angle/yelp-review-scraper) — scrape Yelp reviews and business profiles to enrich your local lead lists.
• Avvo Scraper (solidcode/avvo-scraper) — attorney profiles and reviews from Avvo, another source of law firm leads and lawyer database data.
• Angi Scraper (ahmed_jasarevic/angi-scraper) — contractor and home service provider leads from Angi.
• HomeAdvisor Scraper (ahmed_jasarevic/homeadvisor-scraper) — contractor leads from HomeAdvisor.
• BuildZoom Scraper (ahmed_jasarevic/buildzoom-scraper) — licensed contractors data with license and permit details.

FAQ

• Does expertise.com have an official API? No. expertise.com does not offer a public API, so scraping is the standard way to get its ranked professional data programmatically.
• Is there an alternative to expertise.com? Yes — providers like Yelp, Avvo, Thumbtack, Angi and Houzz rank professionals too. Scrape them with the dedicated actors listed above and merge the datasets.
• Is this legal? Scraping publicly available business information is generally permitted, but you are responsible for complying with expertise.com's terms of service and applicable laws. This actor is provided as-is.
• Known limitations: provider profile pages (/profile/...) are only available for a small number of featured businesses, so profileSlug is best-effort. License fields are only present when expertise.com publishes them for that category.
• Support: open an issue on the actor's Issues tab or contact us for custom modifications (e.g. different output format, additional fields, or scheduled runs).

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For AI agents & LLM apps

This actor is ideal as a tool for AI agents and RAG pipelines. The output is clean, structured JSON — one object per provider with a consistent schema (see Output above), ready to feed into a vector store or a company database.

Minimal input to get results:

{
  "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.expertise.com/legal/personal-injury-lawyers/texas/houston" }],
  "maxItems": 100
}

Billing: $0.0016 USD per provider record (pay-per-result) + $0.00005 actor start. No charge for empty results on invalid URLs beyond the start fee. Set maxItems to bound each call — it doubles as your cost cap.

Legal & compliance disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to expertise.com. "Expertise" and the target website are trademarks of their respective owners. Scraping publicly available business data is generally allowed, but you are responsible for complying with expertise.com's Terms of Service, robots.txt and all applicable laws (including data-protection rules). Use the data only for legitimate purposes — prospect research, market analysis and competitor tracking. This actor and its output are provided "as is", without warranty of any kind.