Manta Scraper - Extract Business Listings & Company Data

Manta Business Directory Scraper

Scrape the Manta business directory for company listings, contact info, and business details: name, street address, city, state, zip code, phone, website, category, hours, coordinates and claim status. Find the Manta listing of any US small business from its name and city, for citation and NAP checks. Built by John Rippy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrippy/).

Note: this actor runs in Demo Mode by default, so a default run returns labeled sample data and charges no task events (the Actor start fee still applies). Set demoMode to false to fetch real data.

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How it reads Manta

Manta sits behind Cloudflare, which turns away plain scripts. The actor opens Manta in a Camoufox stealth browser over Apify residential proxies, so pages load the way they do for any visitor, and reads the public search and listing pages with human pacing. Ads and trackers are not loaded. Only public pages are read; the actor never logs in. When a session is not served pages, it switches to a new exit IP.

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Quick Start

Test with Demo Mode (no task events)

{
  "demoMode": true
}

Find one business (lookup)

{
  "demoMode": false,
  "scrapeType": "lookup",
  "searchTerm": "Smooth Saling Plumbing",
  "location": "Nashville, TN",
  "phone": "(615) 815-1502"
}

Returns one row: the matching listing with its URL and full address, or a not_found row when Manta has no listing for the business near that city. Other Manta listings that match the same business (duplicates) are listed in otherListings.

Search businesses

{
  "demoMode": false,
  "scrapeType": "search",
  "searchTerm": "plumbing",
  "location": "Nashville, TN",
  "maxResults": 20
}

Listing pages

{
  "demoMode": false,
  "scrapeType": "company_profile",
  "companyUrl": "https://www.manta.com/c/m1hm62l/smooth-saling-plumbing-water-heater-replacement"
}

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Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Default	Required	Description
scrapeType	string	"search"	No	lookup, company_profile or search
companyUrl	string	-	No	Manta listing URL (company_profile); several separated by commas
searchTerm	string	"restaurant"	No	Lookup: the business name. Search: a business type or keyword
location	string	"New York, NY"	No	City and state; Manta searches about 10 miles around it
phone	string	-	No	Lookup: phone of the business, to confirm a name match
website	string	-	No	Lookup: website of the business, to confirm a name match
maxResults	integer	50	No	Maximum number of businesses
includeDetails	boolean	true	No	Search: open every listing for zip code, hours, categories and coordinates
proxyConfiguration	object	{"useApifyProxy":true,"apifyProxyGroups":["RESIDENTIAL"]}	No	Proxy settings. Residential proxies are needed for Manta
demoMode	boolean	true	No	Return sample data without scraping
webhookUrl	string	-	No	Optional webhook URL to receive each listing as it is scraped

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Output

Field	Description
name	Business name on Manta
url, mantaId	Manta listing URL and id
address, city, state, zipCode, fullAddress	Address on the listing. When Manta shows "Service Area" instead of a street, address is null, serviceAreaBusiness is true and fullAddress holds the city, state and zip only
phone, website	Contact details on the listing
category, categories	Manta category and its parents
hours, latitude, longitude	Business hours (one entry per day, e.g. Mon 7:00 AM - 7:00 PM) and map position
claimed	Whether the owner claimed the listing
rating, reviewCount	Manta reviews, when shown
match	Lookup only: how the listing was matched (website, name_and_phone, name_and_city, name_and_state), with name score and city and phone checks
otherListings	Lookup only: other matching listings of the same business

A field Manta does not show (for example employeeCount, revenue or yearFounded on most listings) is null, never an empty string or 0.

A lookup with no match returns status: "not_found" with the pages checked. If Manta could not be read at all, the row has status: "blocked" and no task event is charged for it (the Actor start fee still applies).

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Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event billing:

Event	When it is charged	Price
Actor start	Once when the run starts, one event per GB of memory (minimum one). At the default 2 GB of memory a run starts at $0.20	$0.10 per GB
Business Listing	Each business listing scraped	$0.002
Result	Each item written to the default dataset	$0.00001

Demo mode charges no task events: sample rows are never billed. Every run, a demo run included, still pays the Actor start fee and the small per-result fee shown above. not_found and blocked rows charge no task events.

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Troubleshooting

A lookup returned not_found

Manta lists millions of US businesses but not every one. Check the spelling, try the name as it appears on the storefront, or give the city the business is registered in.

status: blocked

Manta did not serve pages to any of the browser sessions. Run again later, and keep the residential proxy on.

How do I test without paying for results?

Enable Demo Mode in the input. It returns labeled sample data so you can check the output format.

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