Sulekha Scraper — India Business Leads by Category & City

Scrape Sulekha.com — India's largest local-services marketplace — for business listings by category and city, including business name, phone number, locality, address, rating and services. Turn Sulekha into a structured India business leads database for SMB outreach, local market research and CRM enrichment.

Main Use Cases

• India SMB lead generation — build verified lists of local service businesses (AC repair, plumbers, interior designers, packers & movers) with phone numbers and addresses for outreach.
• Local market research — measure how many providers compete in a category for a given city, plus their ratings and review volumes.
• Competitor & pricing intelligence — track competing businesses' Sulekha Score, review counts and service line-up across cities.
• CRM & sales-outreach enrichment — append locality, address, phone and service data to an existing list of Indian businesses.
• Directory / marketplace database building — assemble a clean, city-wise directory of Indian local-service providers.

How It Works

Sulekha's category and /profile/ pages are server-rendered HTML, so the data is present in the raw response and no browser is needed. The actor crawls every category × city combination you specify, parses the listing cards, and — when enrichment is enabled — fetches each business's /profile/ page for the full address, star rating, review count, coordinates and images.

Provide categories and cities or explicit category/profile URLs, and each provider becomes one row with contact details, rating, review count and services.

Scrape Sulekha Business Listings By Category And City

You provide one or more categories and one or more cities; the actor crawls every combination. Each combination yields the businesses listed in Sulekha's results for that category in that city, paginated until your item cap is reached. You can instead pass explicit Start URLs (category listing pages or /profile/ pages) for full control.

Build An India Business Leads Database Without An Official API

Sulekha has no public API for retrieving its listings. This actor reads the same publicly available pages a visitor's browser loads and returns clean, structured records — so you can build a business-leads database, run category research, or feed CRM and outreach tools without an API key.

Input

Field	Type	Required	Default	Notes
categories	array	no	["ac-repair-services"]	Sulekha category slugs (e.g. ac-repair-services, plumbers, interior-designers) or full category URLs. Combined with each city.
cities	array	no	["bangalore"]	Sulekha city slugs (e.g. bangalore, mumbai, delhi, chennai, hyderabad, pune).
startUrls	array	no	[]	Optional. Direct Sulekha category listing URLs or /profile/ URLs. Use instead of categories + cities for full control.
maxPagesPerCategory	integer	no	20	Safety cap on listing pages crawled per category + city (each page holds ~10–20 businesses). Raised automatically if needed to reach maxItems.
maxItems	integer	no	100	Maximum number of businesses saved to the dataset.
enrichProfiles	boolean	no	false	When enabled, each business /profile/ page is fetched for the full address, star rating, review count, coordinates and images.
proxy	object	no	{ "useApifyProxy": false }	Standard Apify proxy configuration. Off by default; useful to route through Indian residential proxies.

Output

One dataset item per business. Fields:

Field	Type	Description
businessId	string	Sulekha internal business id
businessName	string	Business / provider name
category	string	Sulekha sub-category (e.g. "AC Services")
city	string	City name
locality	string	Area / neighbourhood
address	string	Full street address (profile pages) or area-level address (listing cards)
phone	string	Contact phone number
rating	number	Star rating (profile pages)
reviewCount	number	Number of reviews (profile pages)
sulekhaScore	number	Sulekha Score out of 10
services	array	List of services offered
workingHours	string	Opening hours
profileUrl	string	Link to the business profile page
yearsOfExperience	string	Years in business
verified	boolean	Sulekha-verified badge
premium	boolean	Premium / paid listing badge
about	string	Short business description
latitude	number	Geo coordinate (profile pages)
longitude	number	Geo coordinate (profile pages)
images	array	Business image URLs (profile pages)
source	string	category (listing card) or profile (enriched)
scrapedAt	string	ISO timestamp

Default dataset view: overview (business name, category, city, locality, phone, Sulekha score, rating, reviews, profile URL).

Example Input

{
  "categories": ["ac-repair-services", "plumbers"],
  "cities": ["bangalore", "mumbai"],
  "maxPagesPerCategory": 3,
  "maxItems": 200,
  "enrichProfiles": true
}

Example Output

{
  "businessId": "4d9f2c1a8e",
  "businessName": "Cool Air Solutions",
  "category": "AC Services",
  "city": "Bangalore",
  "locality": "Koramangala",
  "address": "No. 12, 5th Block, Koramangala, Bangalore, Karnataka 560095",
  "phone": "+91 98xxxxxx21",
  "rating": 4.6,
  "reviewCount": 318,
  "sulekhaScore": 9.2,
  "services": ["AC Repair", "AC Installation", "AC Gas Refill"],
  "workingHours": "Mon-Sun 9:00 AM - 9:00 PM",
  "profileUrl": "https://www.sulekha.com/cool-air-solutions/koramangala-bangalore",
  "yearsOfExperience": "12",
  "verified": true,
  "premium": false,
  "about": "Trusted AC service provider in Koramangala with over a decade of experience.",
  "latitude": 12.9352,
  "longitude": 77.6245,
  "images": ["https://images.sulekha.com/..."],
  "source": "profile",
  "scrapedAt": "2026-10-15T09:00:00.000Z"
}

Integrations & Automation

• Apify API — trigger runs and read the dataset programmatically.
• Webhooks — act when a run finishes (e.g. push new leads into a CRM).
• Zapier / Make — connect new dataset rows to Google Sheets, Airtable, HubSpot or a mail tool.

Recommended schedule: run weekly to keep an India local-services lead database fresh. For fast-moving categories (AC repair, movers), a daily run across your priority cities keeps new entrants and rating changes current.

Related Actors

• JustDial Scraper — India business leads from JustDial, a close companion source for India local-services data.
• IndiaMART Scraper — India B2B supplier and product leads.
• TradeIndia Scraper — India B2B leads with GST and emails.
• Local Business Leads Scraper — CHEAP local business leads with emails and contacts.
• Yell.com Scraper — UK local-business leads (emails & phones) for the same lead-gen workflow outside India.

FAQ

Why use this actor instead of the official API?

Sulekha does not offer a public API for retrieving business listings. This actor reads the same publicly available listing and /profile/ pages a normal visitor sees and returns them as structured JSON, so you can build lead lists without an API key or endpoint contract.

What are alternatives to this actor or to Sulekha data?

For India local-services and business-directory data, JustDial and IndiaMART are the closest alternative sources; this actor's own JustDial and IndiaMART scrapers cover those. Within the Sulekha ecosystem, this actor is the category + city listing and profile scraper.

Can I get Sulekha phone numbers and business addresses?

Yes — phone comes from the listing card and profile page, and the full street address is available when you enable Enrich with profile pages. Listing cards expose the Sulekha Score but not the star rating or review count; enable enrichment to get those too.

Can I scrape Sulekha by city such as Bangalore or Mumbai?

Yes. Pass one or more city slugs in cities (e.g. bangalore, mumbai, delhi, chennai, hyderabad, pune) and the actor crawls each category for every city.

Does it need a proxy or India IP?

No. Sulekha's server-rendered pages are reachable without a browser or proxy. A proxy is optional and mainly useful if you prefer to route through Indian residential IPs.

How do I export Sulekha data to CSV or Excel?

Every run writes to an Apify dataset; use the console's Export button (CSV, Excel, JSON) or the Apify API's dataset endpoint to pull the items into your own pipeline.

For AI Agents & LLM Apps

Purpose: return India local-services business listings (name, phone, locality, address, rating, services) for a category × city grid on Sulekha.com.

Minimal working input:

{
  "categories": ["ac-repair-services"],
  "cities": ["bangalore"]
}

Variant inputs:

{ "categories": ["plumbers", "interior-designers"], "cities": ["mumbai"], "enrichProfiles": true, "maxItems": 500 }

{ "startUrls": [{ "url": "https://www.sulekha.com/ac-repair-services/bangalore" }], "maxItems": 100 }

Output fields (dataset): businessName, category, city, locality, address, phone, rating, reviewCount, sulekhaScore, services, workingHours, profileUrl, yearsOfExperience, verified, premium, about, latitude, longitude, images, source, scrapedAt.

Behaviors an agent should know:

• The actor crawls the full category × city cartesian product; providing 3 categories and 3 cities produces 9 crawls.
• If both startUrls and categories/cities are set, startUrls are used for full control.
• rating and reviewCount are populated only when enrichProfiles: true (they are not on listing cards); leaving it false returns sulekhaScore but not the star rating.
• Free users receive a 10-business preview; paying users get the full run up to maxItems.
• Billing model: pay-per-event — one apify-default-dataset-item charge per business saved (~$0.002/result at the entry tier, i.e. ~$2 per 1,000 businesses) plus one apify-actor-start charge per run.

Legal & Compliance Disclaimer

This actor is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Sulekha or Sulekha.com. It reads only publicly available business listing and /profile/ pages; it does not bypass login, private endpoints, or CAPTCHAs, and it does not access anything behind authentication. Users are responsible for their own compliance with Sulekha's Terms of Service and applicable data-protection law. Where the output contains business contact details, ensure you have a lawful basis to collect and use them, and do not use such data for unsolicited commercial outreach in violation of applicable law.

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